General Manager - SRC

Wabtec•Columbia, SC

7h•Onsite

About The Position

The General Manager for our Columbia, SC facility will lead the site management teams in the execution of business goals using lean manufacturing methods, ensuring sufficient capacity exists to deliver on, employee safety, customer commitments, driving revenue, product quality, cost reduction, margin expansion and on time delivery through the effective utilization of resources. In this role, you will drive operational excellence and continuous improvement. The General Manager role for the Columbia Wabtec Global Service (WGS) facility will have full business leadership responsibility and oversight for the remanufacture of pneumatic, hydraulic, and electronic product lines. This role will lead the site leadership team in the execution of continuous improvement focused around EHS and Site Compliance, Quality and Reliability, Customer On-Time Delivery, Functional Cost, UX Variance, and Inventory.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
A minimum of 5 years of experience in a General Manager/Plant Management role or equivalent operational experience.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated ability to drive accountability, improve culture, and influence.
Strong track record of coaching & team engagement skills.
Strong understanding of operations and business financials including shop functionals, UX variance, and inventory.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

Create a strong culture of one-team focused on understanding and balancing employee, business, and customer needs aligned with Wabtec values.
Directly ensure that communication is flowed through all levels of the organization, transparency and candor is employed throughout the leadership team, and employee voice and engagement processes are healthy
Responsible for site EHS compliance and employee health and safety. Daily leadership visibility, proactively addressing safety concerns, near miss reporting, and other leading indicator activities essential for overall success.
Utilize lean and continuous improvement methods to drive improvements in safety, reliability, quality, cost, and UX variance.
Work with commercial team on proposal development, attainment of monthly sales and EBIT targets, and new product/opportunity exploration.
Drive and sustain culture of accountability, compliance, and operational excellence with both hourly and exempt workforce.
Ensure financial controllership related to work-order transactions, inventory, UX variance, and functional cost.
Work with UX variance team to implement projects to reduce product cost.
Ensure assigned employees are aware / comply with all Wabtec, government, customer and applicable policies, procedures, rules and regulations
Perform necessary administrative activities associated with effective management of shop operations, including necessary interface activities with other functions and organizations required to accomplish all objectives
Develop necessary capacity and business contingency plans to ensure continued delivery to customers when demand changes or facility problems arise.
Provide ongoing leadership, counseling, and support for plant team, guiding them in current positions and assisting with career development and training.
Assure commitment in own and other’s actions to the pursuit of highest possible quality of services, internal and delivered products to customers
Work with a variety of cross-functional leaders to achieve business level targets for the Global Freight Services Business segment, Including across the components and transit segments as well.