Production Supervisor; Bilingual - 2nd Shift

Production Supervisor (Bilingual) – 2nd Shift

Location: West Chicago, Illinois, USA

Brand: New York Air Brake

Requisition : 9492

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.

Oversees and manages all day‑to‑day production operations in the assigned production section. Contributes to production planning processes, allocates personnel resources, proposes procedure improvements and implements technical infrastructure. Ensures adherence to established quality guidelines and production safety requirements. Determines manufacturing priorities based on established weekly production schedules, makes daily assignments, directs all related personnel actions, advises staff, and executes performance measurements. Interprets specifications and makes judgments about the acceptability of production in process.

Leads all production operators in the assigned section.

• Provide manpower planning to ensure production schedules are met
• Lead the training and qualification process of direct reports
• Facilitate team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements, etc.
• Ensure employees are following established procedures and standard work processes.
• Address employee performance issues in a timely manner
• Manage the time and attendance system to ensure employees’ hours are properly captured.
• Ensure that all HSE policy and procedures are being followed
• Must understand and support all Quality, Product Safety, Human Resources, and Health/Safety/Environmental/Energy Policies.
• Must understand and adhere to all relevant statutory or regulatory compliance obligations.
• Must understand, 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.

• Has SAP system knowledge.
• Exhibits accident investigation skills.
• Has Dayforce knowledge.
• Has working knowledge of lean principles.
• Exhibits excellent leadership skills.

Has >10 direct hourly reports.

The employee will be required to perform duties on a computer terminal and providing leadership on plant floor. The employee may be exposed to shop floor conditions, i.e. noise, heat, cold, dust/dirt, etc.

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of an office work environment position.

• Associate Degree preferred in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, Business
• 3‑5 years of relevant experience
• Candidate must be bilingual and speak both Spanish and English

• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, SAP>

• 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.

The anticipated salary range for candidates is $72,400 – $108,600 per year. The final pay offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are…