Program Manager

Tenneco is one of the world's leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

Job Summary

Responsible and accountable for the execution of all programs assigned to adherence to Tenneco program management processes. Ensures flawless launch performance and meets all program targets including, but not limited to: 0-0-100-100-30 (0 recordable injuries; 0 customer quality rejections; 100% on time delivery to the customer; 100% of the CAR financial targets; measured during the first 30 calendar days after the customer's Start Of Production). This position manages several minor programs, or one major program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Tenneco may make reasonable accommodations to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential duties of the position.

• Problem identification and resolution.
• Ensures a high level of integration and collaboration with the plants and Launch Managers in their program, as well as, alignment with the program team members in Engineering, Sales, Finance, Quality and Purchasing.
• Takes an active "go and verify" approach to program by personally visiting the plants and suppliers at appropriate intervals.
• Drives the effectiveness of program team meetings and customer review meetings.
• Ensures effective communication with program team. Acts as the central communication point for their programs
• Maintain detailed action register that clearly outlines program tasks and ownership
• Manage all program deliverables with the project team from the approved program scope/timing submission to program completion, utilizing Tenneco's TenPLUS system
• Manages the program team from Gate 1 (Stage 2) through Gate 7.
• Manages the quoting team during Stage 2.
• Work with a multi discipline team - requires ability to manage a large variety of projects as well as the leadership skills to track, enforce and foster the project team's progress.
• Ensures effective and timely scope management with emphasis on customer scope changes and executes the Scope Change process and approval.
• Ensures program trade off analysis - balancing cost, time, product and resources.
• Identifies program risks early, develops and executes mitigation strategies and executes the Red Flag process.
• Escalates risk with mitigation strategies to the leadership team in a timely fashion.
• Creates high quality timing plans that are developed with the program team with effective buy in from all functional areas.
• Meets 0 days late for all Gates.
• Meets all customer MRDs on time with high quality products.
• Ensures all program financial targets and budgets are met.
• Verifies the CARs and Business Cases are reasonable and achievable
• Ensures effective and logical financial roadmaps are executed
• Ensures quality objectives and roadmaps are developed, executed, and met via their program teams
• Sourcing on time with high quality suppliers
  • Ensuring appropriate completion of Make versus Buy decisions
  • Ensures on time PPAP of purchased components
• Other duties as assigned

Education / Experience

• Bachelors' Degree in Engineering.
• Masters' Degree is preferred.
• PMP certification is preferred.
• Minimum of 6 years' experience in the automotive industry and 3- 5 years in another functional group (Engineering, Operations, Finance, Quality, Sales or Purchasing).
• Experience in at least 2 key functional areas: Program Management, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Operations, and Sales.
• Proven knowledge of program management methodology, tools and techniques.
• Participation or leadership in a cross functional team.

Skills

• Leads, motivates and drives a cross functional team.
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills to drive communication and vision/closure of program requirements within Tenneco and the customer

• Must possess excellent relationship building and networking skills, be well organized and able to function in a team environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Execution and quality focus.
• Fluent in English. Multiple languages preferred.
• Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.

Travel: Ability to travel up to 25% as required

Physical Demands / Work Environment

• This position is expected to be present at a Tenneco or customer site 3 days per week
• Often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance and to stoop kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Vision abilities required include close vision.
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.