Attachment
(c)
SYSTEM AGREEMENT - INSTRUCTOR
ENGINEERS
Instructor Selection/Retention
1. The
Carrier will determine the number of Instructor Engineers needed in a particular
territory.
The availability of that number of Instructor Engineer designations will
be advertised.
3. The appropriate Carrier officer and
the BLE Local Chairman will review the applications
and select the successful applicants. In
order to ensure that the most qualified applicants are selected, consideration
should be given to the following factors:
Skill as a locomotive engineer.
Communication skills.
Safety/discipline record.
Experience as a locomotive engineer.
Seniority.
As the purpose is to select the most qualified applicants, the parties
must display the utmost objectivity and fairness in making their selections.
In the unlikely event that the Carrier Officer and Local Chairman are
unable to agree on selection the selection will be made by the Carrier officer.
4. The
Carrier will develop and utilize a feedback mechanism which will allow student
engineers to evaluate Instructor Engineers.
The appropriate Carrier Officer and BLE Local Chairman will periodically
review the evaluations for the purpose of identifying performance deficiencies.
5. Where
appropriate, the Carrier officer should consult with the Instructor Engineer and
the BLE Local Chairman in an attempt to correct any performance deficiencies
prior to removal. The Carrier may remove a particular locomotive engineer from
the list of designated Instructor Engineers.
6. Instructor
Engineers may voluntarily relinquish their designation as such.
Training Conditions
1 .I Instructor
Engineers will be responsible for the proper -supervision of student engineers
during their on-the-job training.
2. Instructor
Engineers will permit student engineers to operate the locomotive and perform
other functions of an engineer.
3. (a) The Instructor Engineer will not be
held responsible for broken knuckles,
damaged drawbars or rough handling or missed
platforms when the locomotive is operated by the student
engineer.
(b). Instructor
Engineers will not be held responsible for rule violation(s)
committed by the student engineer so long as the instructor
took every reasonable Precaution to prevent the rule violation(s)
and alleged negligence on the part of the Instructor
Engineer neither caused nor directly contributed
to; the rule violation(s).
4. The
Instructor Engineer will complete any required report regarding the performance
of the student engineer.
Compensation
1 . Instructor
Engineers will receive one of the following allowances, in addition to all other
earnings, for each tour of duty with a student engineer or with an engineer
taking a Recertification trip required by the FRA to maintain his or her
locomotive engineer's license:
Yard Service: $14.00
Road Service (including local and road switcher): $28.00 --
Note: The foregoing allowances are "frozen" (i.e. not subject
to future wage increases).
2. The
presence of a student engineer will not affect the Instructor Engineer's rate of
pay when operating without a fireman.
Special Qualifications
1 . The Carrier
may establish special qualifications for Instructor Engineers such as additional
training courses designed to enhance their abilities as locomotive engineer
and/or instructor.
2. Locomotive
engineers will be given a reasonable time following selection as an Instructor
Engineer to complete any such special qualifications.
Q-1: If the need
arises for a student engineer or an engineer re-certifying to ride and an
instructor is not available may another engineer be used?
A-1: Yes.
Q-2: What will the
non-instructor engineer be paid?
A-2: The same as an
instructor engineer under the compensation provisions of this agreement.
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Letter
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INSTRUCTOR ENGINEERS
The parties recognize that it is the intent of this agreement to provide
sufficient engineer instructors to meet the needs of the service.
This benefits currently working engineers because it assists in providing
additional manpower to meet the needs of new business and the normal attrition
of current engineers. The
interruption of training due to an insufficient number of trainer applicants or
the voluntary relinquishment of trainer positions could adversely affect the
training of student engineers and result in current engineers working additional
assignments.
Therefore, if a sufficient number of applicants are not received in a
given area or voluntary relinquishment of trainer assignment causes an
insufficient number of trainers to meet the needs of the service, then the
Carrier may revert to the former method of assigning students to engineers in
that area and the pay provisions that existed previously shall also apply.