Transit Engineering Operations Leader

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at:

It’s not just about your careeror 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.

Transit Engineering Operations Leader - 8.27

The Global Engineering Operations team provides overall guidance to the Engineering ecosystem for operational practices and tools, to provide the best product safety, quality, delivery, cost, and talent for the business.

Elements of this Job Description include:
PEOPLE

Drive visibility of Engineering headcount across Transit Engineering. Provide visibility to Engineering leadership through dashboards or other automated source, that provides real-time information about quantity, demographics, etc. of Engineering population. Drive processes, tools, and compliance management around contingent workforce. This includes, but is not limited to, the definition and sustainability of the workforce used across Engineering, auditing processes, etc. to ensure that the most efficient and compliant usage of this flexible resource pool is utilized to drive quality, delivery, and cost. Support the deployment and sustaining of the Strategic Workforce Plan. Provide framework to the Engineering leadership for thinking through the 3-5-year plan for workforce gaps and needs to support technology development across their businesses.

PROCESSES/TOOLS
- Transit engineering Quality Management System, including the definition, training, and implementation of new processes in collaboration with different product lines stakeholders.
- Internal audits and implementation of improvement actions.
- Monitoring and reviewing engineering process performance indicators and governance indicators. Identify and implement actions for continuous improvement.
- Management of the Transit Safety Board, driving effective closure of safety cases and overall reduction of safety cases.

The Transit Engineering Leader must display the following leadership skills throughout his/her tenure:

- Self-driven initiative, consistent energy towards project execution and sense of urgency around deliverables.
- Cross-business and cross-functional collaboration with demonstrated ability to work across, and not just within the Transit business (i.e., metric definitions must work across all businesses, not just w/in Transit).
- Attention to detail with demonstrated ability to think through consequences of decisions, especially outside of Transit, since this is a corporate, global role.
- Demonstrated success with working with various levels of engineering and business leaders at site, business unit and corporate levels.
- Demonstrated ability to manage changing priorities from various leaders, agility, dotted-line management, influencing across businesses and navigating through complex organization structures.

Location: One Wabtec Brakes sites in Europe

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles people like you Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.