Service Engineer – Wheel, Axle and Gear REMAN

Job Description

WAG REMAN Shop Supervisor | Wabtec Corporation

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Wabtec Corporation, located in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Wabtec provides innovative solutions to freight rail, passenger transit, and industrial customers worldwide, specializing in locomotive and freight car products, rail friction, HVAC, pantographs, and advanced electronic systems. This critical role leads and oversees all Wheel, Axle & Gear (WAG) REMAN shop activities, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality operations meet strict delivery schedules, cost targets, and Quality Management System requirements.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Team: Within the Wheel, Axle & Gear (WAG) REMAN shop.
• Mission: Lead and oversee all WAG REMAN shop activities to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality operations while meeting delivery schedules, cost targets, and Quality Management System (QMS) requirements.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Manage Operations: Direct day-to-day Wheel, Axle & Gear (WAG) REMAN shop activities, including detailed inspection, repair, machining, disassembly, assembly, testing, and dispatch of wheelsets, traction motors, and journal bearings.
• Plan Processes: Develop and maintain essential Service Bills of Material (BOMs), comprehensive repair scopes, routing plans, and precise manpower and resource requirements to optimize production workflow.
• Drive Improvement: Track and continuously improve key performance metrics such as Turnaround Time (TAT), productivity, machine utilization, backlog management, and overall quality performance through Lean, Kaizen, and other continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee Resources: Ensure the timely availability of critical spare parts, consumables, tools, gauges, lifting equipment, and plant machinery by collaborating closely with planning, procurement, and stores teams to prevent operational interruptions.
• Ensure Compliance: Promote and enforce rigorous Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) requirements across the shop floor, fostering a strong safety culture and driving adherence to all quality standards and regulatory requirements for products and processes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree (B.E./B.Tech.) in Engineering, or a Diploma in Engineering with relevant technical training.
• Experience: 7-12 years of experience in machine shop operations, manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, automotive maintenance, locomotive maintenance, or related industrial environments.
• Skills: Hands-on experience with CNC lathes, Drill machines, Hydraulic/mechanical press machines, Wheel turning equipment, production planning and scheduling, shop-floor operations management, and root cause analysis.
• Bonus: Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on Lean manufacturing principles, commitment to safe, sustainable, and environmentally responsible work practices, willingness to work in a 24×7 operational environment including rotational shifts, and comfort working in a shop-floor and industrial setting.