Material Technical Advisor

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Material technical Advisor

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: 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 your 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.

How will you make a difference?

The Production Planner is responsible for planning and managing production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company’s productive capacity within the assigned Customer Fulfillment Unit (CFU).  This position works with minimal supervision and must be able to work with people on all organizational levels inside and outside our facility.

What do we want to know about you?

• Bachelor’s degree in a business or engineering and/or a minimum of three years’ experience in a related manufacturing environment required.
• Extensive computer experience working with MS Office; strong Excel skills are required (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, complex formulas). Proficiency with MS Outlook as well as with an ERP software (Oracle preferred) is required.

What will your typical day look like?

• Work closely with the fulfillment and planning teams to forecast and avoid part shortages impacting production, escalating issues and communicating to the operations teams as necessary.
• Own all internal ordering and lineside management of direct material for one or several production lines simultaneously.
• Ensure work order and transactional accuracy as our customers and internal stakeholders change material requirements for modernization and new build locomotive programs.
• Provide timely disposition resolution for discrepant and non-conforming material.
• Inventory Accuracy for the production location.
• Work as part of a cross functional team, driving a "one team" focus, dedicated to customer success within the shop.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable regulations, OSHA work practices, and industry/site-specific work rules.
• Work with various MRP, quality, and MES software systems to manage material and other systemic requirements.
• Be expected to take ownership of and lead projects for plantwide materials process improvement
• Be expected to take a leadership role in your department, flexing outside your traditional job responsibilities to assist and improve other shop operations functions.
• Be expected to occasionally report on and present materials metrics and project improvements to senior and executive leadership.
• Timely release of Job Packets and Shipping Paper work.

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated ability to tactfully challenge the status quo
• Solid conceptual and analytical thinking and proven ability to solve complex tasks with a high level of ambiguity, under time pressure
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong influencing skills and ability to build lasting relationships across multiple layers in the organization and able to gain the respect of cross-functional organization
• Highly organized and able to deliver results through others
• Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing is strongly preferred.

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