Finishing Supervisor

Overview / Aperçu

The Finishing Supervisor ( Day Shift & Afternoon Shift ) is responsible for leading / directing the railcar production for assigned work center(s) at the Red Deer location. The person in this role is on the front line and must ensure that employees performing painting, lining, and blasting on railcars have all the tools, equipment, information and training needed to complete their tasks within GATX’s standards. Accountable for leadership of skilled labor employees including all aspects of safety, quality, production and cost. Ensures the highest quality work in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.

Provides direction and motivation to the workforce to ensure performance metrics are achieved. Ensures consistent and fair administration of employee policies and procedures.

The Finishing Supervisor maintains a close working relationship with the Production Manager, Service Center Manager, Environmental and Safety Coordinator, Quality Manager and the office clerks. The individual in this role will have a very good understanding of the Service Center metrics and goals. The impact of this position on the business is very important as it ensures that daily safety, quality, production, environmental and cost goals are achieved. The person in this position will have a high level of interaction with finishing employees throughout the daily schedule. The decisions made by the person filling this position are of a highly technical nature in the mid-range of complexity and independent judgment as relates to railcar finishing. This position’s primary functions are conducted in accordance with established policies and principles. This position will have a range of approximately 10-15 production employees reporting to it.

Responsibilities / Responsabilités

Key Activities include but not limited to :

% Time Spent

• Manages work center(s) to ensure that work assigned to finishing employees are performed in an efficiently and cost-effective manner and based on the planned target to release;
• Effectively plans, organizes and schedules process finishing to railcars
• Mentors employees to ensure they perform their daily tasks in a safe manner and abide to all GATX Health and Safety rules and procedures;
• Maintains an effective workforce by recruiting, hiring, training, mentoring, and managing performance.
• Performs audits to ensure high quality finishing.
• Accountable for production.

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Qualifications / Qualification

MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

Key Competencies (non-technical behavioral skills, i.e. presentation, negotiation, customer service skills), in priority order. Select from “key competencies for job descriptions” list :

Other (i.e., physical requirements, travel, etc. that is not covered above) :

NOTE : The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Canadian Indigenous People Verbiage

GATX Red Deer is located in Treaty 7 and Treaty 6 regions. We pay our respect to the traditional territory of the Niisitapi (Blackfoot), (including the Siksika, the Piikuni, and the Kainai Peoples), the Tsuut’ina, Stoney Nakoda, Cree, Saulteaux and Métis peoples.

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