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Norfolk Southern is a Fortune 300 transportation company specializing in freight railroading. Norfolk Southern Corporation, a Virginia -based holding company, has been in business for over 100 years and is the nation's safest and most efficient railroad. NS has co-op opportunities for individuals with a desire for excellence.
Vision: Be the safest, most customer-focused and successful transportation company in the world.
Prefer: Students seeking degrees in Engineering or Computer disciplines with at least a 2.7 GPA overall and a 3.0 GPA in major. No travel, relocation, or living allowance is provided. Salary for this full-time position depends on class level at the time of employment. Students should be eligible to work a rotation of three work semesters.
All co-ops who are active employees on or after January 1, 2005, will be paid according to the following:
| Class Standing | Monthly Salary |
| Freshman | $1920 |
| Sophomore | $2125 |
| Junior | $2335 |
| Senior | $2545 |
| Graduate | $2835 |
| Location: | NS Mechanical Department - 185 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA |
| Work Period: | Fall , Spring, Summer |
| Hours: | Monday - Friday - 7 AM - 4 PM (May vary) |
| Reports To: | Systems Engineer |
Description: Student will work with the personnel of Locomotive Reliability on a variety of projects. Primary duties include accessing and manipulating Teradata and DB2 server-based locomotive-related information and performing statistical analysis of retrieved data. Student will become familiar and input data in the Locomotive Maintenance Information System. Other duties include reliability impact analysis of locomotive projects and investigation of modes of locomotive failure. Also, report and chart generation as the result of investigation and analysis of data related to locomotive reliability.
Skills: Student must be highly PC-literate and have extensive experience in MS Excel. A programming background is required with experience in Visual Basic preferred. Knowledge of MS Access, SQL, graphical interface programming, HTML, Java, MS Frontpage, statistical analysis and design of experiments is desirable.
How to apply: Interested students must be registered with their school's Co-Operative Education Program.
Students should email their resumes and cover letters to: careers@nscorp.com
Be sure to indicate “Locomotive Maintenance Co-op” in the subject line.