Locomotive Maintenance Technical Advisor – Selkirk, NY

Job Description

Who will you be working with? 

This role will serve as a technical expert on GE/Wabtec locomotives, helping to train, educate, and lend experience to the Wabtec and CSX teams as a Lead Technical Advisor. This will largely be  accomplished through advising, informing, researching, and assisting CSX mechanical employees in addition to serving as an experienced resource to fellow Wabtec Technical Advisors and Material Specialists. You will be part of an overall team made up of Wabtec technical and materials experts, all working to ensure our customer’s fleet is running at optimal levels.  

 
How will you make a difference? 

Our Lead Locomotive Maintenance Technical Advisors are locomotive technical experts, relied upon for their expertise and knowledge. This role is a critical steppingstone in the career of our Locomotive Maintenance Technical Advisors and/or our Locomotive Maintenance Material Technical Advisors as they take on roles of increasing leadership responsibility and/or technical expertise.  

What do we want to know about you?  

• Strong leadership presence, ability, and preferably prior experience  

• Demonstrated success in a customer facing technical role – preferably in the railroad industry  

• Undergraduate degree (preferably in a technical discipline) from an accredited university/college 

• OR an associate degree in a technical discipline + 2 years of relevant professional work experience in lieu of the undergraduate degree 

• OR high school graduate/GED + 4 years relevant professional work experience in lieu of the undergraduate degree 

• An additional 3+ years shop operations or engineering experience. 

• Experience, willingness, and ability to work in shop environment and to work various shifts on various days as required, including having a flexible work schedule to perform auditing and training on various shifts. 

• Ability and willingness to travel as required for training, auditing, and supplier visits 

• Strong proficiency in MS office applications 

• Ability to gather, comprehend, and analyze large sets of data and present findings and conclusions based on the analysis 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

• Strong customer service and problem-solving abilities  

• Demonstrated interpersonal, leadership, and influencing skills 

• Demonstrated ability to leadership experience (both front line leadership of others and coordination projects) 

• Wabtec Level 2 Certification highly preferred (Level 1 required)  

• The ability to maintain reliable and predictable attendance 

• A high level of dependability, a great attitude, and an ability to work well with a team towards achieving a common goal 

What will your typical day look like?  

• Provide effective leadership and training to new and current Wabtec employees, ensuring they have the knowledge and tools necessary to be successful in their roles.  

• Provide technical expertise, instruction, and services to railroad employees (the customer) concerning subjects such as, but not limited to:   

• Preventative and corrective actions  

• Troubleshooting 

• 5Y analysis 

• Material ordering and handling 

• Tooling 

• Safety procedures 

• Contract requirement clarification. 

• Work with railroad employees and management (the customer) to promote, maintain, and drive continuous improvement in safe work practices while monitoring quality, productivity, and adherence to contract requirements. 

• Coordinate and provide instruction on key quality and process improvement programs and procedures. 

• Provide clear communication to customer and Wabtec employees on work to be performed, quality scope, process improvements, and liaison with other cross functional departments as necessary. 

• Establish production plans for labor, material, and logistics as required for your team  

• Ensure compliance with all applicable regulations, OSHA work practices, and industry / site specific work rules. 

• Make operational risk assessments, balancing customer requests with Wabtec requirements. 

• Work with various software systems to manage Safety, Quality, Material, and Production plans, along with other system re