Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway employee numbers are being reduced in the area. Officials at the railroad call it a necessity for any network business to optimize the operation and run as efficiently as possible. They are trying to align their people and resources with customer demand to deliver the industry-leading service that customers expect.
A company spokesperson says there are team members in locations on the network where there isn’t sufficient work and simultaneously not enough team members where the growth is occurring. They are offering location transfers with incentives targeted to those locations where there are open positions. BNSF has also offered Craft Transfers for mechanical employees to be retrained for other open positions on the BNSF network. There are currently several hundred open mechanical and engineering positions on the BNSF network.
