Engineering Maintenance
Maintain facilities at the highest level.
The overall performance of the nation's railroads requires every facility to be in the best possible health. Building, inspecting, maintaining and repairing the inner workings of a railroad are subjects NARS takes as seriously as you.
Our more than 30 courses in this area provide a wide range of engineering and maintenance training, development and recertification services, including training in:
- Safety
- General railroad rules and requirements
- People and team skills
- Work equipment maintenance and operation
- Track and bridge inspection and maintenance
- Welding: basic, frog and rail/Thermite
Engineering maintenance employees work on an open-air track lab outfitted with rails and ties. The area also has a fully operative locomotive crane. Training is also conducted in laboratory settings, including a state-of-the-art welding shop.
Our training can help you broaden and sharpen employee capabilities and help advance careers. For example, employees in pursuit of welding expertise are trained to American Welding Society standards and have the opportunity to earn a formal Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in welding. Students in other areas of facilities engineering and maintenance combine varied certifications to gain and enhance skills specifically vital to their current or next job on the railroad.