Production 2nd Shift Supervisor

3 weeks ago

Kempton Park, South Africa Wabtec Full time

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:

It’s not just about your careeror 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 yours 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.

Internal and External Position

Post: Production 2nd Shift Supervisor

Department: Production

Reporting to: Operations Manager

Primary Purpose of Role: To ensure manufacturing and assembly of railway braking systems by supervising teams and process owners in a production environment for the purpose of achieving operational goals; setting up and maintaining workstations, organizing and monitoring workflow on a shift rotation bases.

Primary Objectives:

- Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
- Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing a skills matrix to promote personal growth.
- Maintains work flow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
- Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries tied to weekly and month delivery plan to the customer.
- Check finished products to ensure quality, and that industry standards are met before they are declared ready for use. Work closely with the QC team and Methods to improve operations output.
- Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and adopting continuous improvement techniques.
- Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
- Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.
- Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures. Ensure facility is clean, neat, and safe to work in, establish 5S principles.
- Track, monitor production outputs are in line of the business requirements, measuring Attendance, efficiency, plant utilization, productivity.
- Maintains working relationship with the union by following the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
- Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Work closely with materials team to follow up on production line shortages.

Formal Education/Training
- Possession of an Electrical / Mechanical or Instrumentation trade certificate
- Proficient in MS Office
- 7 -10 Years’ experience in a manufacturing environment or locomotive experience.
- Experience as Shop Team Leader or Supervisor
- Knowledge in Health and Safety improvement practices and procedures
- Locomotive products knowledge will be advantageous

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusi

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