rail switchperson
ISCO: 8312. Skills: 21. Essential: 19.
Essential skills
- apply signalling control procedures
- cooperate with colleagues
- enforce railway safety regulations
- ensure compliance with railway regulation
- execute working instructions
- follow switching instructions in rail operations
- handle stressful situations in the work place
- keep task records
- manage rail yard resources
- operate railway lever frames
- operate railway switches
- operate switching locomotives
- shunt inbound loads
- shunt outbound loads
- shunt rolling stock in marshalling yards
- signal box parts
- use handbrake
- use rigging tools
- use waterway traffic control systems