Shawn Ditsch Email & Phone Number

Pittsburg, Kansas, Us

Director Fleet Solutions - Locomotive

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Senior Program Manager - Overhaul Planning & Execution- Principal member of the Florida East Coast, Dual Fuel (Tier-3/Liquified Natural Gas) Overhaul Program launch.- Designed detailed work-scopes and managed implementation of Overhaul Program worth over $20MM. - Worked with customer to identify safety practices, tooling, and material needs for the Overhaul Program.- Worked with internal customer service reps, engineering, material planners, and buyers, to ensure timely delivery of critical material and design changes for the Overhaul Program.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Senior Site Services Staff Manager for the Waycross, GA Site - Jan 2017 - Feb 2023- Managed the accounts largest locomotive repair site, directing our customer and their union labor force to properly repair around four thousand locomotives per year. - Managing multiple annual budgets on operations, inventory, transportation, materials consumption, and generating annual sales from the site. - Managed contractual compliance and risk through daily customer collaboration and active involvement in their operations, reducing failure rates from the sites by 10%-15% on average. - Anticipating customer needs, strengthening relationships, understanding growth drivers, and integrating them into roadmaps so we succeed together.- Accountable for profit, loss, and growth of the sites I manage. - Implemented a variety of Digital tools including Smart Shopping.- Regional Manager for both the Galesburg and Chicago, Illinois service sites.- Designed, implemented, and lead numerous projects around safety, Lean, 5S, quality, tooling, simplification, process improvement, standardization, ergonomics, and operational excellence.- My leadership provides empowerment, coaching, training, and motivation to cultivate a culture of openness, learning, and leadership. This develops staff competencies, drives employee engagement, and positive impacts to metrics critical to Wabtec and our customers.- Developed and pioneered team communication forums. - Hosted multiple foreign and domestic visitors to showcase best practices and to provide training. - Lead recruitment efforts at universities, and member of the Technical Certification process for new employee’s.- Partnered with business in the community and engaged in multiple charity events and fundraisers.

Chicago, Il, Us

Senior Site Services Staff Manager for the Waycross, GA Site - January 2017 - February 2023Senior Site Services Staff Manager for the Galesburg & Chicago, IL Sites - May 2013 - January 2017- Managed the accounts largest locomotive repair site, directing our customer and their union labor force to properly repair around four thousand locomotives per year. - Managing multiple annual budgets on operations, inventory, transportation, materials consumption, and generating annual sales from the site. - Managed contractual compliance and risk through daily customer collaboration and active involvement in their operations, reducing failure rates from the sites by 10%-15% on average. - Anticipating customer needs, strengthening relationships, understanding growth drivers, and integrating them into roadmaps so we succeed together.- Accountable for profit, loss, and growth of the sites I manage. - Implemented a variety of Digital tools including Smart Shopping.- Regional Manager for both the Galesburg and Chicago, Illinois service sites.- Designed, implemented, and lead numerous projects around safety, Lean, 5S, quality, tooling, simplification, process improvement, standardization, ergonomics, and operational excellence.- My leadership provides empowerment, coaching, training, and motivation to cultivate a culture of openness, learning, and leadership. This develops staff competencies, drives employee engagement, and positive impacts to metrics critical to Wabtec and our customers.- Developed and pioneered team communication forums. - Hosted multiple foreign and domestic visitors to showcase best practices and to provide training. - Lead recruitment efforts at universities, and member of the Technical Certification process for new employee’s.- Partnered with business in the community and engaged in multiple charity events and fundraisers.

Chicago, Il, Us

Materials Manager for the BNSF Overhaul Program - August 2011 to May 2013Materials Manager for the Galesburg Service Facility - June 2009 to August 2011- Key member of the Evolution Series Tier 2+ Overhaul Program launch, ensuring a successful implementation on multiple customer accounts.- Managed material requirements for the Overhaul Program, of nearly 300 locomotives a year, along with over 30 Field Modification projects across 18 service sites and third-party locations worth more than $10MM annually. - Managed a program to identify and reuse serviceable engines resulting in over $2MM annual savings.- Identified and Implemented safety enhancements to forklifts that were implemented company wide.- Managed warehouse operations while adhering to budget, inventory targets and effectively achieving those goals.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Managed 60+ union headcount and increased overall labor productivity by 58%.- Reduced the unscheduled failure rate by 16% and the scheduled maintenance failure rate by 19%. Also collaborated with other sites to identify opportunities to reduce their failure rates.- Designed, implemented, and lead numerous projects around safety, Lean, 5S, quality, tooling, simplification, process improvement, standardization, ergonomics, and operational excellence.- Mentored, coached, and trained employees, was the EHS site leader, and completed Federal (FRA) Operations testing.- Lead efforts at universities to recruit and build talent pipeline through COOP and internship opportunities. - Partnered with business in the community and engaged in annual Railroad days events.

Chicago, Il, Us

Technical Advisor in North Platte, NE - June 2000 to November 2002Technical Advisor in Kansas City, MO - November 2002 to January 2006- Technical expert and Program Manager for the C44/60 (Convertible) locomotive fleets. Designed and implemented detailed work-scopes and managed a modification program at a third-party facility.- Designed and implemented work scopes, troubleshooting guides, trained peers, and supervised union labor. This reduced the failure rate on the convertible fleets by 60%, the Kansas City site by 16%, and the North Platte Run Through site by 50%.- Key member in the launch of Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics, which aided in performing on-train repairs, resulting in a 75% increase in repair quality and added overall availability of locomotives.

Detroit, Mi, Us

- Built databases on series 4000 engines from mine sites throughout the world.- Reviewed fault analysis packets to determine root causes of failures.- Worked with the Warranty Department team on series 50/60 engines.