Return on Investment

Running head: COMPETENCY MODELS 1

COMPETENCY MODELS 1

Task Analysis

Stephanie A. Gillmer

Purdue Global University

HR 410-01 Employee Training and Development

Professor Lisa Hone

August 25, 2020

BNSF Competency Model

Organization: BNSF

Business Strategy and Goals:

BNSFs business strategy is to expand and be efficient in transportation for rail customers across the United States.

There are many jobs within the BNSF. The railroad is its own entity of jobs outside of civilian jobs. Jobs that are directly related to the organization’s strategy and goals are train engineers, conductors, equipment operators, track layers, mechanics, and engineers. These jobs keep trains moving, and are crucial to expanding and fixing rails across the U.S. There are many moving parts to keep trains going 24/7 every day of the year.

There are three major groups of operations in BNSF the groups include the transportation, engineering and mechanical job family. The transportation employees are the operation of moving trains from point-to-point, moving freight all across the BNSF system. Jobs within the transportation family include: engineers, conductors, and carman. The engineering job family is in charge of all aspects of supporting facilities, and tracks. Engineering includes jobs, such as, track layers, track inspectors, and telecommunications. Mechanical is a major job family that is critical to the operations of the railroad. The department maintains locomotives, rail equipment, and all loading equipment running. Should they fail, the jobs are 24/7 to get equipment up and running as soon as possible.

The jobs in the job family are grouped together because they are related by a common profession. These positions have many similarities (Job Families, 2020). In order for the jobs to create a job family it requires similar knowledge, skills, and abilities (competencies). The positions also have key behaviors that are associated and related. Another factor is they have similar pay characteristics and conditions (Job Families, 2020).

Resources:

Job Families - Aligning Jobs That Fit Together. (2020). Retrieved August 25, 2020, from https://hr.unl.edu/compensation/nuvalues/jobfamilies.shtml/