Manager, New Car Inspection, Mexico

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, GATX Corporation (NYSE: GATX) is an industry leader with 125+ years of success—success that is powered by our people. We are proud of our high-performance culture, hard-working and enthusiastic management team, and beautiful office space in the Willis Tower.

At GATX, we hire the best and offer our employees a dynamic, energetic, collaborative environment to enable them to make an impact from day one. Enjoy the perks and benefits of a global company with the close-knit culture and community of a much smaller one. In the same way we strive to empower our customers to propel the world forward, we are dedicated to providing our people with the tools and resources they need to advance in their careers.

The “Manager of New Car Inspection-Mexico” will have direct oversight of new railcar production and quality to ensure railcars are meeting GATX and Customer requirements prior to delivery and will manage one direct report (New Railcar Inspector Mexico). This will require inspecting railcars through all phases of railcar production and performing final inspections prior to shipment to ensure adherence to builder quality assurance processes and GATX and Customer specifications. The manager will also need to work directly with all levels of the builder’s production, quality, and engineering teams to resolve issues, improve quality and have cars meet drawing and regulatory requirements.

GATX, one of the largest railcar leasing companies in the world takes delivery of up to 3,000 new railcars per year and the “QARI” efforts are intended to maximize GATX’s procured railcar quality, value, and reliability from Mexico manufacturing plants while meeting GATX and customer requirements.

This is a corporate hire, but the work will be located in Mexico. Time will be split between Monclova and Sabinas, and the incumbent will be required to be in one of these facilities 5 days a week.

• Manage departmental responsibilities including scheduling, forecasting, auditing expenses, managing personnel, conducting performance reviews, and establishing and maintaining departmental goals.
• Schedule staff to cover new car production builds in Mexico from initial start-up to car completion while ensuring order requirements are met. Actively perform on-site inspections including final inspections for car acceptance prior to shipment and approve repair decisions for cars needing rework. Prioritize inspection activity so that adequate resources are applied to specific builder locations, manufacturing processes, orders and or quality issues as needed.
• Active participation in specification and drawing review meetings, documenting and reporting quality issues and non-conformances to have cars meet standards, coordinating customer and inspector visits, leading first article or sample car inspections.
• Lead the effort on any pertinent issues related to quality or changes that may result from meetings, specification reviews, or car inspections with the ability to collaborate with the builder’s manufacturing team including production, quality assurance, and engineering to achieve results. Work closely with GATX stakeholders to identify areas of concern with proposed improvement and convey all GATX specification details and preferences to car builders. Review the builder’s quality assurance documents to ensure they are accurate, up to date, and being followed so that the work and physical railcar matches the records. Work cooperatively with car builders to have the best quality rail car produced while meeting GATX and Customer requirements.
• Observe safe work practices in a heavy industry working environment in compliance with GATX and railcar suppliers’ manufacturing plant safety policies.

• Minimum of 5 years’ freight railcar manufacturing experience
• Railcar inspection and quality assurance experience within a railcar manufacturing plant
• Knowledge of railcar types and components and ensuring compliance with drawings, engineering standards, industry regulatory standards, and customer requirements
• Weld inspection experience (certification preferred)
• Railcar interior and exterior coatings experience (NACE certification preferred)
• NDT performance and evaluation experience

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

• The “QARI” will live in Mexico and reside within commuting distance of a base railcar manufacturing location in Northern Mexico such as Monclova or Sabinas and will need to be at those locations daily.
• Inspection - Visual evaluation and dimensional measurement, as required, including use of inspection equipment (weld gauges, mil gauges, etc.)
• Physical activity – Walking throughout railcar manufacturing facilities indoors and outdoors within heavy industry environment including inherent tripping and fall hazards. Climbing on, under, and into railcars both during and after construction including standing or kneeling for car inspections.

This is a corporate hire but will be located in Mexico. Time will be split between Monclova and Sabinas and the incumbent will be required to be in one of the facilities 5 days a week.