Director jobs in United States

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The Director Operation Group Power & Mobility Components is responsible for driving operational performance, resource management, and contributing to the industrial strategy across Power & Mobility Components (PMC) sites. This role ensures alignment on key performance indicators, drives continuous improvement initiatives and fosters collaboration across all PMC locations to achieve operational excellence. By providing strategic direction and promoting a culture of shared success, the Director of Operations enables PMC to deliver consistent and scalable results.

• Accountable to reach Safety Quality Cost Delivery and footprint transformation targets
• Steer sites for Operations financial Metrics including, but not limited to OPEX, CAPEX, VCP, NET Material Deflation & cost variances
• Drive operational performance through lean / continuous improvement / automation / digitalization as well as process maturity and compliance across PMC sites
• Accountable for workload balancing across sites

OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE ACROSS PMC SITES

• Drive operational performance and continuous improvement across PMC sites
• Steer sites to reach SQCD targets, ensures On Time Delivery
• Generate positive variances year-over-year, avoids negative standard cost variances
• Ensure safety standards deployment across sites within the region and EHS performance
• Drive the sustainability improvement plan across sites within the region

FOOTPRINT, CAPACITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Balance capacity / load across sites optimizing manufacturing footprint, including potential transfers and synergies
• Validate CAPEX across the PMC sites
• Consolidate, challenges and validates SIOP processes at PMC sites

INTERFACE WITH COMMERCIAL TEAMS

• Coordinate with Sites to provide the Industrial strategy inputs for bids and product management

• Sustained improvement of EHS KPIs
• QCD Performance improvement for the PMC sites including variances and VCP
• Achieve Footprint Transformation targets as per agreed business plans
• Execute CAPEX programs according to agreed business plan

• Group President, PMC, with integration into Transit Operations n-1 leadership team

• No direct reports

• Transit COO
• Group President PMC
• Product Line Vice President and their Operations leadership teams

• BA / BS in engineering, business, or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Approximately 15+ years of experience as Managing Director and / or Senior Operations in international environment.
• Experience in lowering a company’s costs and increasing productivity and revenue.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, guide and influence a dispersed group of leaders without direct authority over them.
• Proven track record of building and cultivating relationships with team members as well as key internal and external stakeholders.

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with 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 and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

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.