Fleet Engineer

Delivering Goods For The Good Of All - TrinityRail

While TrinityRail has built one of the broadest and deepest railcar platforms in the world, it’s what’s inside our cars that counts. We are proud to manufacture, maintain, and manage the railcars that deliver the indispensable goods that keep our lives, and our economy, rolling. “Delivering Goods For The Good Of All” is why we proudly come to work each day, and this is why our company exists.

Job Title: Fleet Engineer

Location: Dallas, Texas

What you’ll do:

• Evaluate designs and products for compliance with regulatory and contractual standards in terms of material, stability and performance; follow established engineering procedures and policies; manage engineering change process.
• Develop scope of work, engineering drawing packages, provide maintenance instructions, R-1 and 4-2 applications and repair procedures to support maintenance and repair of Trinity Industries Leasing Company railcars and managed assets.
• Serve as an Engineering project leader for creating railcar specifications and reviewing with the customers during the order review meetings.
• Manage CAD functional activities for the assigned projects.
• Provide internal technical consultative services to division/plant managers and team in sales, engineering and manufacturing departments.
• Maintain external relationships with vendors, customers, engineering and operating personnel at various maintenance facilities.
• Support Trinity Industries Leasing Company improvement initiatives.
• Ensure design intent is maintained.
• Make design and material recommendations to achieve desired results.

What you'll need:

• B.S. in Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
• 2+ years’ experience of engineering procedures and administration; emphasis on railcar design preferred.
• Outstanding communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills necessary.
• Ability to multi-task / handle multiple projects of differing scale.
• Demonstrated ability to execute all phases of product design, prototype development, product analysis and manufacturing processes while conforming to applicable regulatory standards and practices. Knowledge of AAR and/or FRA regulations preferred.
• Experience in a manufacturing or repair plant in a Mechanical Engineer, Project Engineer, or Resident Engineer position with a custom product, freight and/or tank car production or maintenance preferred.
• Knowledge of different types of weld process and industry standards like AWS specifications.
• Experience in Autodesk systems like AutoCAD, Inventor is preferred.
• EIT certification is preferred.
• Knowledge of railcar operating environment preferred.
• Knowledge of rail and/or hazardous material regulations preferred.
• Knowledge of stress analysis preferred.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Trinity Industries, Inc., and its subsidiary or affiliated companies (hereinafter “Trinity”) are committed to equal employment opportunity. It is our policy to consider candidates for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Trinity participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Trinity is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to This email address should only be used for accommodations and not general inquiries or resume submittals.