Tenneco

Buyer

• Provide purchasing support to the business commercial and new product launch efforts.
• Support new business quotes with purchased material costs.
• Coordinate supplier new product introductions in support of customer product launches.
• Provide active representation on the project teams until SOP + 90 days.
• Work with commodity purchasing teams in developing sourcing plans that support Program needs and align with commodity sourcing strategy.
• Provide sourcing recommendations which align with strategic goals, best cost and demonstrate deep understanding of the options for a given part.
• Provide supply material pricing cost summaries to respective product launch teams.
• Utilize supplier selection in alignment with global purchasing commodity strategies and new product performance requirements.
• Coordinate early supplier involvement with product development teams to optimize cost.
• Support respective project prototype purchasing requirements.
• Negotiate technical and/or supply agreements with suppliers involved in "early supplier involvement" to ensure that Tenneco design and developed technology is protected.
• Support improvement of supplier launch procedures to minimize inventory obsolescence and support lean manufacturing needs in alignment with operational expectations.
• Liaison to business units, as required.

Program Buyer

Engineer

• Execute warranty management processes including claim data analysis, debit management, contract review, part return analysis and lessons learned implementation for ride performance business accounts.
• Lead cross-functional team members in the effective and timely execution of core processes to reduce and warranty claims by improving products and processes.
• Serve as subject matter expert for warranty-related matters.
• Support development of initiatives for satisfactory compliance and continual improvement of CQI – 14 requirements.
• Work with global warranty data analytics team to ensure the acquisition, analysis, and management of warranty claim data.
• Analyze warranty data.
• Identify contributors to warranty claims.
• Review data with cross-functional team members to address findings from claim data analysis.
• Manage items to timely closure and statistically validate the effectiveness of countermeasures.
• Prepare analyses and reporting outs for stakeholders.
• Serve as lead warranty contact for warranty debits.
• Obtain, screen, and provide disposition of warranty debits.
• Lead resolution of debit discrepancies.
• Communicate pending debits to accounting and quality departments and plant management.
• Reconcile debits for accuracy.
• Track debits against claim and part analysis for accuracy.
• Manage warranty part return process.
• Coordinate retrieval of warranty parts from the field.
• Ensure parts are timely analyzed.
• Establish and lead reviews to address findings from analyses.
• Manage all items to timely closure and statistically validate countermeasures.
• Report outs as needed for internal and customer consumption.
• Assist in contract review process for establishing warranty terms and conditions.
• Provide past data and lessons learned to assist in disposition of proposed customer warranty terms and conditions.
• Lead the establishment of technical factors for assigned customer portfolio.
• Continually monitor performance and corrective actions to continually mitigate liabilities and reduce technical factors.
• Ensure lessons are captured in controlled documents.
• Participate in design reviews for all pertinent programs.

Warranty Engineer

Operations

• The Operations Supervisor oversees all aspects of day-to-day production, manufacturing, and distribution of personnel activities.
• Leads team meetings and facilitates continuous improvements in the process with emphasis on quality and reduction of cost and waste.
• Responsible for ensuring the production of a quality product and meeting production/customer specifications while achieving plant productivity objectives.
• Ability to identify and correct unsafe situations and/or behaviors and model safety in all you do.
• Report, evaluate, and when necessary investigate all work-related accidents by identifying the factors contributing to the accident and implement corrective action.
• A team player possessing excellent communication skills and having the ability to plan, prioritize and organize work effectively.
• Able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Assess situations, make judgements, analyze problems (not just symptoms), make logical decisions and carry out the decision made.
• Work as a team with other supervisors to achieve company goals and objectives.
• Thoroughly communicate all needed information with the other shifts.
• Work with management, maintenance, quality, and engineering to solve production challenges.
• Enforce company policies and rules.
• Ensure safe working conditions and rectify any issues.
• Responsible for the training, motivation, discipline, and measuring of employees’ performance as necessary to complete written evaluations of full-time, direct reports under the guidance of the Value Stream Manager.

OVS Operations Supervisor – 7pm-3am

Procurement

• Supports daily procurement operations by ensuring timely and cost-effective acquisition of goods and services required for business operations
• Responsible for processing purchase orders, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating with suppliers to meet delivery schedules and quality standards
• Verifies material requirements, tracks order status, and resolves discrepancies
• Provides support in the coordination of Stores supply inventory
• Sends out all tooling for repair
• Evaluates component repairs
• Performs a physical count of MRO inventory, maintaining records in inventory system
• Creates and maintains new parts in SAP for business requirements
• Creates and provides reports through SAP for business requirements
• Processes Purchase Orders
• Understands stock levels
• Remotes inventory of items within the plant related to MRO

Purchasing Technician

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Support daily AP operations
• Invoice processing and validation
• Support in expense note process
• Supplier reconciliation and issue resolution
• Support in month-end closing
• Inventory tracking and support in stock control
• Support in continuous closing process
• Assistance in variance analysis

Program Buyer

Warranty Engineer

OVS Operations Supervisor – 7pm-3am

Purchasing Technician

Financial Analyst