Operations Manager

Compensation: $100,000 - $150,000/Year

Full Relocation Package Provided

Onsite 5 Days Each Week

Location: Erie, PA

This locomotive operations teams focuses on the testing and painting/finalization of the locomotive modernization that the Truck/FMI team did. The Truck/FMI team takes the locomotives that have run their course, have been sitting in the yard for a period of time not in use, and they break it down and modernize it. This team has to be sure they are testing and doing the final paint jobs on the now modernized locomotives.

The Operations Manager will have an MTA which is a materials planner, a Production Supervisor, and a Union workforce that works beneath them (currently 45 – 50 union workers), and a Quality Supervisor.

• Once the trains have been modernized, they are moved to the Final Assembly and Test Plant, there the 15 week testing and paint program begins. 26 tests
• Each locomotive they are working on is anywhere for 4-10 million each, so any given week they are shuffling 30 – 40 million dollars around in their shop.
• There are a LOT of eyes on this team, so the candidate who fits into this role needs to have experience with high leadership and stakeholder engagement that occurs regularly.
• Must be organized, well spoken, a higher level than they need the ops manager for the other team.
• They modernize locomotives from Freight (NS, CSX, BNSF) and Transit locomotive engines (MATA, MNR, NY City transit) They are also working on Battery locomotive engines now that are starting to come through.

Must Haves / Required Skills:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical preferred)
• 5-7 years of leadership role in operations from manufacturing in either test or painting plants
• 10+ years overall in manufacturing experience
• Lean and Leadership