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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, sciences, computing or business disciplines with at least a 3.0 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.
| Location: | 185 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA |
| Work Period: | Fall , Spring, Summer |
| Hours: | Monday - Friday - 7 AM – 4 PM (may vary) |
| Reports To: | System Manager – Performance Measures |
Duties: Student will work with the personnel of Transportation Planning on a variety of projects. Primary duties include developing and disseminating measures and reports to support strategic and tactical operating decisions. This may include regular production of existing reports, creation of new reports, data analysis and maintenance of existing reports, reporting tools and supporting systems. Students will become familiar with the diverse information systems that source this data to include the corporate data warehouse and mainframe systems. They will also be exposed to business processes that are used to improve customer service and the flow of traffic in the NS transportation network. Other duties include presentation generation as well as investigation into the causes of variation in field operations performance.
Skills: Student must be highly PC-literate and have extensive experience in MS Excel. A programming background is required with experience in MS Access preferred. Knowledge of MS Visual Basic, SQL, 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 “Transportation Network Co-op” in the subject line.
Norfolk Southern is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.