Great pay and benefits but no life - Industrial Maintenance Technician CSX Employee Review

4.0
May 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of overtime. Union based pay. Easily move up inside of company. Great insurance. Tools and training provided. Safety oriented. Always learning

Cons

Can be a lot of mandatory overtime. No life work balance all work 70+ hours weekly. Paid every two weeks. Hard to get employed. To many safety rules. Management seems to cause friction between employees. Management believes they are smarter than employees that do the work and believe they are some type of royalty. 99% are complete idiots that have no understanding of operations and cause so many more problems than they help with. Their were a few good supervisors and managers but most had absolutely no business being in charge of very capable technicians. They make the work environment very hostile just to stroke their own pitful egos. Way to many supervisors and managers. One technician working while 5-8 managers watching.

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5.0
Dec 8, 2025
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Pros

- strong benefits and culture - decent pay

Cons

- everything is changing quickly with upper leadership and budget cuts leaving departments strained

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2.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great pay and benefits PTO

Cons

Long hours and terrible work environment Training is inadequate On call 24/7 with only 2hr notice No holiday pay for road jobs Newer guys/ low seniority never know where they are going to work week to week No overtime potentially if on long mileage run and will still work 12 hours Very stressful job with a lot of responsibility Lots of time away from home and never have a consistent sleep schedule

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