Track Laborer - Greenville, SC
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Performs physical labor using hand tools and equipment to construct, alter, repair, maintain, and demolish railroad tracks, associated structures, and components. Works as a member of a local Line Maintenance crew. Click on links to learn more about this position: Line Maintenance Track Laborer Principal Duties: Carry and place track materials using hand tools such as tie tongs, rail tongs, rail forks, lining bars, shovels, and jacks. Attach the rail to ties using spike mauls or spike drivers. Remove spikes with claw bars, spike lifters, and spike pullers. Lift, position, handle, remove and install railroad crossties in and around the track structure. Connect and disconnect rail using the track, impact, power wrenches, or welding materials. Move, clean, and tamp ballast (crushed stone-like material) with shovels, tamping picks, clay picks, lining bars, and ballast forks. Raise tracks, turnouts, crossings, and rails with track or power jacks. Cut associated materials with oxygen-acetyle...Track, Laborer, Manufacturing, Transportation