Production Supervisor

Knorr Bremse Group; Riverside (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Student loan repayment assistance

401k program

Company stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness program

Medical, dental and vision options

Generous paid time off

Job summary

New York Air Brake, a Knorr-Bremse group company, seeks a working supervisor to oversee daily production operations in our Riverside, MO area. You will allocate resources, plan schedules, and drive improvements on the shop floor, leading a team of supervisors and operators in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires 3–5 years in management, strong lean skills, and a commitment to quality, safety, and regulatory standards. Join a manufacturing leader with broad scope and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 3–5 years of experience in management, planning or related capacity.
• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, SAP systems preferred.
• Associates Degree in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, with related planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning to ensure production schedules are met.
• Lead the training and qualification of direct reports.
• Facilitate team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements.
• Lead continuous improvement ideas from team members.
• Ensure adherence to standard work and procedures.
• Address performance issues promptly.
• Manage time and attendance for direct reports.
• Comply with quality, product safety, and HSE guidelines.
• Conduct incident investigations and corrective actions.
• Support ISO and related management system standards.

Skills

Technical capacity

Product knowledge

Lean principles

Leadership

Quantitative methods

Organization

Time management

Education

High school diploma

3–5 years management experience

Lean Manufacturing

5S

SAP systems

Associates in Process/Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering

Job description

LOCATION: Riverside/Missouri (US-MO),United States|BRAND: New York Air Brake | REQUISITION ID: 11441| JOB GRADE:14|ON-SITE/REMOTE:On-site

Since 1890, New York Air Brake has been an innovative leader in the heavy-haul railroad industry. As a member company of Knorr-Bremse –the world’s leading manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles--New York Air Brake is recognized worldwide as a Center of Competence for heavy-haul freight railroad control systems. From multiple locations, we serve customers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico—reaching clear across the globe to South America, Africa, the Middle East, China, and Australia. Our talented, diverse, and dedicated teams develop innovative solutions to the challenges facing our customers. Join us in our next steps.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary

Oversee and manages all day-to-day production operations in the assigned production area. Contributes to production planning processes. Allocates personnel resources, proposes procedures, improvements, and implements technical infrastructure. Ensures adherence to established quality guidelines and production safety requirements. Determines manufacturing priorities based on established weekly production schedules. Make daily assignments, directs all related personnel actions. Advises staff, executes performance measurements, interprets specifications and makes judgements about the acceptability of production that is in process. Leads all Production Operators in production area assigned. This is a working supervisory role.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide planning to ensure production schedules are met.
• Lead the training and qualification process of all direct reports.
• Facilitate Team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements.
• Lead and solicit continuous improvement ideas from team members.
• Ensure employees are following established procedures and standard work processes.
• Address employee performance issues in a timely manner.
• Manage time and attendance system for direct reports.
• Must be able to comply with quality, product safety, and HSE rules and regulations. Be energy conscious, if applicable.
• Conduct incident investigations.
• Must understand and adhere to all relevant statutory or regulatory compliance obligations.
• Must understand and support and adhere to the Integrated Management System policies, procedures and instructions.
• Must understand and support relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), as defined in the goal tree.

Skills and Competencies

• Technical Capacity
• Knowledge/understanding of products and services.
• Working knowledge of lean principles.
• Exhibits excellent leadership skills
• Basic knowledge of quantitative methods/statistical procedures and graphic skills.
• Organization Skills
• Time Management

Supervisory Responsibility

This position supervises <50 direct personnel and 5-10 indirect personnel.

The employee will be exposed to shop floor conditions, i.e. noise, heat, cold, dust/dirt etc. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds. The employee will also be required to perform duties on a computer in an office setting.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand or sit for long periods of time; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Required Education and Experience

1. High school diploma or equivalent.

2. 3-5 years of relevant experience in management, planning or related capacity

Preferred Education and Experience

• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, SAP systems
• Associates Degree in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, with experience in planning or related capacity in a manufacturing environment

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" employment relationship.
• Maintains safe, clean, healthy environment and ensures compliance with the company’s rules and policies.
• Must comply with quality, product safety, HSE guidelines and regulations. Be energy conscious.
• Must understand and comply with applicable standards (i.e. ISO 9001, ISO/TS 22163, ISO 14001 ISO 45001, ISO 50001, and CMMI).
• Maintain and safeguard business records.

Safety Sensitive Position

Safety Sensitive Positions Include: Rail Service Technicians, Assemblers and Supervisors, General Technicians, Assemblers and Mechanics, Assembly Test Technicians, and Field Service Technicians, Assemblers, Mechanics, Engineers and Supervisors

WHAT WE OFFER

From Engineering to Test Laboratory; Manufacturing & Skilled Machine Operation to Sales and Marketing; Field Service to Customer Service; Quality to HR to Finance to Software Development, our team-based approach is built on inclusion, opportunity, development, social responsibility and rewards. You are afforded the chance to grow personally and professionally through challenging assignments, commitment to continuing education, exposure to a variety of projects, and international travel. Our benefits are cutting edge as we offer student loan repayment assistance, lucrative 401k program, company assisted stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, wellness program, along with competitive salary and incentive compensation, generous paid time off programs and a full array of medical, dental and vision options. We’ve got the right stuff, do you? Let’s find out together.

New York Air Brake LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.