A professional who directs and coordinates activities of personnel engaged in scheduling and routing trains and engines in specified railroad territory. Responsibilities include:

• Observes record entries and monitors railroad radio communications and lights on train location panelboard to oversee train and engine movements along specified territory of railroad.
• Confers with railroad dispatchers to determine scheduling of trains and engines.
• Directs delays of train departures upon notification of substandard track conditions.
• Coordinates train movements to utilize train crews efficiently to schedule engines to arrive at service locations when due for maintenance and to maximize use of local trains versus special work trains.
• Scrutinizes train schedules and advises specified personnel of availability of tracks for scheduled repair and maintenance.
• Issues directives to subordinates to coordinate movement of expedited, late, or special railroad trains, using information received through railroad information network.