Wabtec
Operations Project Manager
Duncan, SC, United States
Sponsorship not specified$69k-$98kDetected 27 days ago
Project ManagementLogisticsERPLeadershipCollaborationOrganizational SkillsMicrosoft Office
About the role
- Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail.
- Wabtec has approximately 30,000 employees in facilities throughout the world.
- Visit the company's new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.
Responsibilities
- Build a Project Master Plan for Operations, validate it, and follow up on the planning and work breakdown structure for each function allocated to the project.
- Creates CAPEX projects to industrialize the manufacturing process.
- Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world.
- The transit portfolio provides highly-engineered systems and services to virtually every major rail transit system around the world, supplying an integrated series of components for buses and all train-related market segments that deliver safety, efficiency and passenger comfort.
- To request collaboration, support, and delivery of mandatory activities from manufacturing and quality engineers.
Requirements
- (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)
- Bachelor's degree, with five (5) years of Project Management experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
- Lead the OPS project team to successfully complete assigned tasks within schedule, allocated budgets, and scope to the required quality.
Nice to have
- Experience working in the passenger rail industry is preferred.
- New product introduction experience is a plus
- PMP Certification is a plus.
Skills
- Excellent communicator with strong written and organizational skills
- Candidates should have solid knowledge of financial controlling tools, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and experience with ERP systems.
Compensation
- The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Benefits
- May involve occasional exposure to cold and hot temperatures, humidity, dust, vapors, fumes, vibration, and other loud noises from rolling stock assembly and maintenance areas and sub supplier's plants.
- More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, are available at mywabtecbenefits.com.
- Other benefit offerings for this role may include annual bonus, if eligible.
Company info
- http://www.WabtecCorp.com.
- It's not just about your career… or your job title…it's about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world.
- Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven't been done to make yours and someone else's life better?
- Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so!
- Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
- The Operations Project Manager plays a crucial role in implementing the policies for Design for Excellence, Industrialization, Engineering, and Project Management.
- The Operations Project Manager leverages technical expertise to oversee the safe launch of new products and engineering changes, ensuring successful and timely execution from impact analysis to first article inspection (FAI).
- This Project Manager is responsible for industrializing our manufacturing processes to achieve optimal cost and quality while maintaining safe, sustainable practices and high environmental standards.
- Throughout the project lifecycle, the Operations Project Manager coordinates product industrialization efforts, including CAPEX required.
- OPM will be supported by manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, operations managers, process experts, and the indirect sourcing department for industrialization.
- Mix of office and shop-floor environments, with up to approximately 10% travel to sister companies, vendor installations, customers, or benchmarking companies.
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