Launch - Assistant Manager

About The Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and driven professional to join the Tenneco team as Manager – Product Launch. This role will be responsible for leading end-to-end product launch activities, ensuring seamless coordination across cross-functional teams and alignment with customer and organizational requirements. The position involves overseeing PPAP readiness, program timelines, and manufacturing feasibility, while ensuring transparency through structured documentation and reviews. The individual will drive capacity planning, cost assessments, and tooling requirements. This role requires close collaboration with plant teams and global stakeholders to conduct gate reviews, track action plans, and ensure timely execution of development milestones including sample builds and production signoffs. Additionally, the role focuses on driving safe launch, ramp-up activities, and successful transition to mass production, while capturing learnings for continuous improvement. Reporting into the respective leadership, this position demands strong technical expertise, program management skills, and the ability to effectively coordinate across multiple functions.

Experience Required - 10+ years

Qualifications - B.tech / Masters

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinate PPAP documents readiness. Ensure all PTRs are a part of this package for transparency with management.
• Team feasibility, capacity reviews & escalation to management for any gaps.
• Obtain customer requirements RFQs RFI (ICY)
• Assisting in estimating new tooling requirements and costs; coordinating tool revisions in relation to product design changes
• Obtain smart sheet training and manage all programs through the same.
• Review requirements with CFT. Assessment of costs, feasibility, CAPEX involved etc.
• Schedule Gate reviews with global management & local CFT
• Biweekly meeting with plant to review action items. Create & maintenance of
  
  

• Run manufacturing feasibility with plant, identify bottlenecks and escalate as and when necessary & ensure capacity for each program
• Make & monitor development timeline, review with CFT & share with customer.
• Review sample orders from customer. Sample tracking, inspection levels.
• Ensure machine purchase, commissioning are happening as per development timelines
• Ensure RM/child parts orders are sent out per timelines
• Coordinate PPAP documents readiness. Ensure all PTRs are a part of this package for transparency with management.
• Responsible for Engineering Change Notice (ECN) release in EDB (Engineering Database).
• Accountable for the design of tooling and gauges using AutoCAD, supporting various manufacturing processes.
• Handle modifications of tooling and gauges based on trial outcomes during sample lot production.
• Ensure implementation of changes as per ECN requirements into design and production systems.
• Led safe launch and ramp-up activities, ensuring smooth transition to mass production
  
  

• Documented lessons learned and provided feedback for continuous improvement in future projects.