India

Primary purpose of Role:

Manager Off-Highway and Defense plans, organizes, and directs engineering personnel to meet company objectives for their department across Off-Highway and Defense markets using their products, in collaboration with the Indianapolis based team.  This role is key to execution and achievement of departmental engineering strategies and objectives by leading technical team, providing technical oversight, driving results through engagement, accountability, goal setting, coaching, hiring and mentoring talent.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads a technical team to deliver to specific functional goals in support of the organization’s initiatives, in active collaboration with Indianapolis based team.
  • Establishes engineering development tasks, processes and timelines to support department & cross-functions.
  • Supports Product Line Team sanctioned change management activities for the department
  • Supports Indianapolis based team leading for initiatives for Current Product Improvement Team
  • Technical support to aid Chennai Off-Highway in-plant and local supplier issues and efficiency improvements.
  • Supports technical assessments of deviations for plant and supply base
• Provides technical oversight by reviewing drawing revision redlines, DARPs, DVP&Rs, test requests and analysis requests.
  • Supports vertical Managers for Off-Highway and Defence, participates in PE Tech venues for product changes requested via change management system for Off-Highway and Defense Product Line Teams
• Works effectively with internal stakeholders, customers, and hardware suppliers to execute project deliverables and develop proposals to resolve unique challenges as they arise
  • Effectively communicates complex issues with internal and external stakeholders
• Provides input into Budget Planning & Forecasting for Off-Highway and Defense Products, including Maintenance and Incremental/Variant initiatives
• Establishes relationships with other business leaders at the same level or higher, external customers/suppliers/industry, and is a trusted and credible partner
• Executes the talent and organizational plan by hiring, leading, and developing the technical talent to support the engineering organization and create an inclusive and collaborative work environment
• Monitor, evaluate, and provide regular feedback on employee performance – mentoring and coaching for employee growth and implementing improvement plans as needed
• Drive employee engagement and retention initiatives to maintain a motivated workforce – positively represent corporate communications to influence outcomes that support business strategies
• Ensure compliance with Allison Policies and manage employee relations matters as needed
• The role requires regular collaboration with global teams and flexibility to work overlapping hours as needed.

Key Performance Measures:

• Support execution of in-flight Off-Highway and Defense initiatives with a focus on
  • Product cost
  • Product Design Quality
  • Budget accuracy & timing
  • Project Timing
  • Responsiveness to plant and supplier requests

• Support of current production programs with a focus on organizational quality and cost initiatives
• Encourages team by addressing barriers and conflicts to achieve departmental requirements.

• Shows leadership capability, critical thinking, and decision-making ability when possible.

Competencies and Behaviours:

Collaboration: Support of the OS process, PLT cost and quality initiatives.

Decision Making Quality:  Works with a high level of independent judgement and strategic decision making.

Customer Focus: Driving a positive internal and external customer experience by timely responses to supplier, service, and plant requests for technical support.

Drive for Results: Flexible, motivated, and capable of making changes to improve and sustain functional proficiency.

Project Management: Strong capability to manage programs to achieve cost, quality, and timing requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field
• Ability to understand and direct solutions to complex technical and/or business challenges
• Excellent oral and written (e.g. presentations) communication skills

Experience:

• 15+ years’ experience in engineering and technical experience
• Ability to take ambiguous information and create and clear, concise and actionable message for senior leadership
• Capable of developing business cases with directionally correct assumptions and ambiguous information
• Leadership skills to hire, train, and develop a highly effective engineering team
• Skills in project, process, change, and people management.
• Driven self-starter with the ability to be self-directed.
• Ability to oversee several simultaneous projects with the proper delegating skills.