Senior Site Manager Locomotive Maintenance Facility (Waycross, GA)

Transportation Systems Services Operations • Waycross, GA

292d • $102,500 - $146,000

About The Position

The Senior Site Manager is a pinnacle leadership position within the Freight Services Division. In this role, you'll lead a team of employees operating in a 24x7 environment to accomplish all goals and objectives for the assigned customer location. Additionally, you'll manage major and complex assignments with long-term business implications as they relate to locomotive service contracts, manage complex technical issues, and contribute to the overall customer account strategy. As the Senior On Site Leader at a critical customer location, your leadership will largely determine the success of the team as a whole. You will make a major impact by building, growing, and leading a team of Wabtec technical and material experts towards providing world class service to our customer will be the main focal points or your efforts.

Requirements

• Strong leadership presence, ability, and preferably prior experience
• Undergraduate degree (preferably in a technical discipline) from an accredited university/college OR an associate degree in a technical discipline + 2 years of relevant professional work experience in lieu of the undergraduate degree OR high school graduate/GED + 4 years relevant professional work experience in lieu of the undergraduate degree
• An additional 5+ years shop operations or engineering experience
• Wabtec Level 2 Certification highly preferred (Level 1 required)
• Experience, willingness, and ability to work in shop environment and to work various shifts on various days as required, including having a flexible work schedule to perform auditing and training on various shifts
• Ability and willingness to travel as required for training, auditing, and supplier visits
• Strong proficiency in MS office applications
• Ability to gather, comprehend, and analyze large sets of data and present findings and conclusions based on the analysis
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong customer service and problem-solving abilities
• Demonstrated interpersonal, leadership, and influencing skills
• Demonstrated ability to leadership experience (both front line leadership of others and coordination projects)
• Demonstrated successful leadership experience in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to maintain reliable and predictable attendance
• A high level of dependability, a great attitude, and an ability to work well with a team towards achieving a common goal

Responsibilities

• Complete site management and oversight at a Wabtec Freight Services field location
• Hire, coach, train, and mentor site technical and materials team to promote internal development, capabilities, and cohesion
• Develop and implement a strategic business plan to respond to customer goals, for the full array of Wabtec's services and products
• Develop site strategies and drive the successful delivery of all the work at the locations supported utilizing Six Sigma Methodology and processes
• Drive Six Sigma quality strategy and integrate Wabtec into the locomotive customer service site - driving success for both customer initiatives
• Cultivate the customer relationships to enhance customer metrics
• Identify opportunities at the sites to meet / exceed operational goals and initiatives
• Be responsible for orders, sales, product delivery, collections, functional budgets, contract administration, and overall customer satisfaction for all sites
• Provide overall leadership in all areas of account activity with emphasis on identifying and developing account growth opportunities
• Be responsible for the execution of the project in terms of main contractual obligations including timely delivery, quality, compliance with contract scope, and expected profitability of the project itself
• All other tasks, projects, and objectives as required

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Welfare benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Annual bonus eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree