Fleet Innovation and Transformation Engineering Program Manager
About The Position
Our Freight Services Division provides locomotive maintenance services to our customers, the country’s largest freight railroads, helping them keep their locomotives running at optimal levels. The mission of the Fleet Innovation & Transformation team is to accelerate fleet transformation by consistently providing compelling solutions and innovative technologies that improve reliability, sustainability, and performance. The Engineering Program Technical Leader will manage locomotive modernization and new product development projects with broad scope and significant impact to the business. The role requires excellent leadership skills to effectively manage Commercial, Equipment Engineering, Manufacturing, and Reliability deliverables. In this role you will be responsible for major and complex assignments with long-term business implications, manage complex issues within functional area(s) of expertise, and contribute to the overall business strategy. The engineering program management focus will be on business-critical programs.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- At least five years of program management and/or manufacturing experience
Nice To Haves
- North America and International locomotive expertise
- Six Sigma and reliability training
- Strong electrical/mechanical design and analytical background
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes
- Ability to drive projects to completion
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to influence cross-functionally, across all organizations within the business
- Ability to present to external customers
- Knowledge of engineering processes and tools (EDOT, QSW, DOORS, PLM, Reliance, DRS, eDR/Tollgate, Oracle, MSPO)
Responsibilities
- Provide program leadership for a team of engineers focused on product design aspects of the locomotive systems
- Support and coordinate with interfacing organizations such as commercial, proposals, manufacturing, sourcing, services, global engineering, and sub-system engineering teams
- Ability to harmonize program schedule with engineering deliverables & milestones
- Manage product cost through effective engineering and manufacturing decision making
- Effectively manage engineering program budgets including labor and shopwork.
- Support service programs, fulfillment, and New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Communicate progress to all levels of the organization
- Ability to accel in a lean, mission-based team environment while ensuring optimized designs, validation scope, and customer deliverables by hitting schedule, cost, and performance targets
Benefits
- health
- welfare
- retirement
- annual bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
