Manufacturing Program Manager - Capacity & Capital Planning

Strategic Program Manager

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated candidate to serve as a Strategic Program Manager overseeing our strategic projects within the factories. This unique Program Manager role will be responsible for managing enterprise capacity, and capital planning, and strategic initiatives within the future footprint of Oshkosh Vocational Segment. This is a crucial role in driving profitable growth as we look to gain operational efficiencies within our Pierce, McNelius, and Aerotech product lines and manufacturing processes.

Your Impact

• Lead and participate in long range enterprise capacity and capital planning
• Responsible for managing segment annual capital budget to spending limits, serving as Operations Gatekeeper in the capital approval process; and maintaining a monthly capital review cadence with stakeholders
• Support the development of enterprise capacity planning of the vocational segment on IBM'S Planning Analytics Workspace including derivative and enhancement projects
• Create and maintain project documentation for project planning, requirements analysis, risk management, issues management, status reporting, project communication, and quality assurance.
• Coordinate and manage internal and external resource to accomplish project objectives, including capacity expansions / uplifts and capital budget management.
• Plans and directs small to medium industrialization projects to completion.
• Manages project scope, cost, timeline, integrated schedules, EVM (cost, schedule) and risk assessment for strategic projects
• Accepts and delegates authority, established priorities for work delegated to others.
• Monitor product quality and process control and suggest improvements as needed.
• Coordinate communication between internal stakeholders in each business unit and cross functionally (e.g. Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Assembly, Service, Testing, Quality Control, and Marketing departments) as needed.
• Prepare and present program status / issues to internal customers and stakeholders.
• Support know-how transfer and maturity of overall plant knowledge and adoption of capacity planning in each facility.
• Responsible to identify and coordinate all project scope change requests for approval.
• Work with contract management to meet requirements of contract.
• Participate in project proposal writing efforts.
• Use data-driven methodology to validate results.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Pay Range : $91,800.00 - $153,200.00 The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at corporatetalentacquisition@oshkoshcorp.com.

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.

Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.