General Manager Jobs

About The Position

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.

Benefits

• health
• welfare
• retirement
• Relocation assistance may be provided if eligibility requirements are met.
• performance bonus