Production Supervisor

How will you make a difference?

The Production Supervisor provides frontline leadership for a team of technicians. In this role, you will utilize your experience and expertise to solve problems, drive process adherence, and develop and execute objectives for yourself and others. As a Leader in manufacturing, you will handle day-to-day activities in which you will provide direction to accomplish operational objectives as well as timekeeping, maintaining schedules and leading the hourly workforce.

What do we want to know about you?

• •Bachelor’s degree or a high school diploma/GED with at least 4 years of experience in manufacturing
• •Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• •Strong oral and written communications skills
• •Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• •Ability to influence others and lead small teams
• •Ability to lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact
• •Ability to coordinate one to two projects simultaneously
• •Strong and effective problem identification and solution skills
• •Proven analytical and quality/process improvement skills
• •Willingness to take on tough challenges and grow professionally

What will your typical day look like?

• •Provide technical assistance and leadership to the Operations team including operations, equipment troubleshooting, and repair.
• •Help train and develop technical skills of Operations employees; educate employees on business strategy and metrics
• •Actively participate in Environment, Health and Safety initiatives and corrective actions as an expert in the safety aspects of the Operations team’s scope
• •Support and meet production schedules, drive productivity and quality initiatives, and manage the area within budget; utilize data analysis to identify and execute improvement projects
• •Interface with internal and external customers, define priorities for shifts and work groups leveraging shift start-up / shift-change meetings
• •Manage employees and schedule requirements, including timekeeping, overtime, time off, and discipline
• •Communicate and enforce safety policies, the employee handbook and other plant policies
• •Actively participate on cross-functional teams and demonstrate necessary leadership and coaching skills to other team members

Who will you be working with?

Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services. Our team is focused on continually improving our best-in-class production capabilities. We combine deep domain expertise and tenured experience to deliver unparalleled products for our customers. Here you’ll interact daily with team members during the problem resolution process and will partner with other key stakeholders to support our internal customers and their responsibilities.