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Building cities. Driving commerce. Saving lives. For over 100 years, Allison Transmission has powered the vehicles and technology that move our world forward.
What powers us? Our employees. From the first person hired by James Allison in 1915 to the thousands across the globe who work for Allison today, we’re driving progress everywhere because we employ top talent worldwide.
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Job Title:
Operations Program Manager & Business Planner
Pay Grade:
T4
Job Description:
Primary Purpose of Role:
In collaboration with the Corporate Product Line Team Leader and the Operations Functional Staff, develop and execute a "Program Plan" utilizing the methods and templates as defined in the Operations Program Management (OPM) Playbook and coordinate launch activities and change management implementation for initial and future production phases.
Key Responsibilities:
- The functional departments as defined in Operations include: Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Facilities, Procurement, Supplier Quality, Global Supply Chain, Plant Operations, and Operations Program Management.
- Represents commercial plants on Product Line Team and understanding, communicating, and implementing change.
- Work collaboratively with Operations on the coordination and execution of the Integrated Program Management 3.0 quality lane and associated program quality launch deliverables.
- Develop and execute re-manufacturing/warranty process and timing focused on commercial plants.
- Program Plan development must also consider the inclusion of "Non-Operations" departmental milestones including but not limited to Product Engineering, Product Line Team, Customer Validation and other significant events, Allison Staff and Operations Management Team reviews.
- Responsible and accountable to maintain program timing, cost, and quality by working up, down, and across the organization in a collaborative, professional, and catalytic manner.
- Organizes, schedules, and conducts internal launch and gate reviews highlighting the deliverables that would have a negative effect on the cost, quality, and delivery of the program.
- Effective utilization of the "Recovery Plan" to maintain program deliverables.
Key Performance Measures:
- On-time program delivery to safety, quality, delivery, cost requirements
Competencies and Behaviors:
Required:
- Ability to lead and influence others to deliver a Program on time, to budget, with the defined quality level in exceeding customer expectations.
- Demonstrate competency in the timely and accurate completion of program documents.
- Organize documents using the established methodology, tools, and templates in Microsoft SharePoint. This is the repository for program documents.
Preferred:
- Knowledge of best practices in automotive or equipment manufacturing.
- Familiar with lean manufacturing principles for machining and assembly operations.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, or Finance.
Experience:
Required:
- 7+ years’ experience in similar role
Preferred
- 10+ years’ experience in similar role
Primary Location:
Indianapolis, IN
Additional Locations:
Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
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Please note that Allison Transmission will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Allison Transmission will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.
What We Do
Allison Transmission is the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial-duty automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems. Our products are specified by more than 300 of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers and are used in a range of market sectors—from bus, refuse and emergency to construction, distribution and defense.
Allison was founded in 1915 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the company’s global headquarters is still located. We have approximately 1,400 dealer and distributor locations, employ more than 2,700 people around the world and our international presence spans more than 80 countries.
OUR VISION
In addition to being the world’s leading provider of commercial-duty automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems, we also strive to be the foremost provider of parts and services for our customers.
Whether you drive, sell, service or distribute on-highway vehicles, defense vehicles or off-highway equipment, Allison provides you with the highest quality products and the best customer care. We work to win your trust and enthusiasm through continuous improvement driven by the integrity, teamwork and innovation from our employees and authorized partners.
OUR PROMISE
Allison promises our customers an automatic experience like they’ve never had: an unrivaled combination of Quality, Reliability, Durability, Vocational Value and Customer Service.
