Rail-Term Inc.

If you are looking for a career where you can find a good balance between family and work come to Railterms track or signal department.  Yes it is still railroading and you will be on call and required to work some nights and weekends but unlike the larger class 1 railways you will not be “just a number”.  You will be part af a team that provides  a great service to our customers and actually works together to foster a safe workplace with a positive culture.   
The owners are good honest people who care about keeping us safe and happy and strongly support a Q4 management team that works together fairly well. 
The pay and benefits (iPhone included) are good.  There is more than ample opportunities for personal development and career advancement.  Overall we are a group of hard working people proud to be railroaders.  Awesome place to work!!

I was hired at the beginning of 2018. When I arrived at Rail Term, I got the opportunity to work in a new industry and with some great people (in the IT team itself at least). The IT Director is an awesome boss who values work/life balance and gives the staff lots of leeway to complete work in a liberal but effective manner. I got to learn a lot of new technology because the IT is on point and very much modernized.

Unfortunately, upper management moves at a much slower pace and has a mentality much more archaic than the IT so we ended up delaying or canceling several projects due to decisions from other departments.

There is no room for advancement unless the company expands massively in the future. The job became very monotonous and repetitive once all of the major projects were completed.

Working at a Railterm as a signal maintainer I experienced a toxic work culture. Railterm does not hold its employees in high standing, they do not care about life outside of work and expect blood sweat and tears.

The compensation is far below the industry standard and the company makes no effort to provide for their employees, this is accurately represented in the high turn over rate.

Holding a position in track maintenance, I must say that RailTerm management is truly concerned about the safety of its workers in the field.  

We have frequent safety calls and bulletins issued to address various safety related topics/hazards.

The railway is a high risk industry, but this company puts a lot of efforts in the mitigation of hazards.

Management wants to micro manage and hold u to the rules but break the rules to work in their favour .
They make their on laws that work for them , don’t care about the workers till this day they can’t keep the ones that’s there no accommodations and it’s just about them it’s a company that is running very cheap and workers are under paid

Just a temp agency. Not in charge of jobs and have zero equipment. Railterm only supplies manpower in Toronto, and pays the least out of all rail contractors in the area. New to the Union and trying to pay the least amount possible. 

Management is very focus on safety and employees are encouraged to bring any concerns.  Communication is important for RailTerm.

There is always someone available to support the employee.

We are part of the team more than we feel like we are employee in a company.Very good company to work for.

Since you are a contractor, it is CP over railterm employees. The atmosphere is extremely toxic because CP bosses want you fired and your supervisor only wants to impress CP. The turn over rate is extremely high because the pay is decent for new drivers, but the stress is too high.

Lets not kid around, this company is always looking for people......that speaks volumes. Any idiot can figure that out. Unfortunately its not management. I see adds for people all the time at the same locations in Ontario. I think its safe to say this company is a loser. Rail-Term why haven't you?

Focused and fun group of workers. 
Management could use some replacing, very unprofessional.
Learned about importance of safety in work environment.
Hardest part of the job is learning to cope with working overtime, 10+ hours a week.

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