Plant Transportation Planning & Execution Lead

Tenneco Inc.

Greenville (MI)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

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Job summary

Tenneco Inc. in Greenville, MI is seeking an experienced Transportation Planning Expert to own plant transportation planning and execution.

You will manage lanes, routing, carriers, and rates, ensuring end-to-end shipment visibility and disciplined exception handling. You will balance cost, service, capacity, and inventory while coordinating with Procurement, Production, Finance, and Carriers to optimize the P3 Integrated Supply Chain.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in logistics, supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field.
Operations or Logistics Supervisory experience.
Working knowledge of TMS, ERP, Excel, and transportation analytics or visibility tools.
APICS, CILT, Lean, or Six Sigma certification is preferred.
Strong urgency, service orientation, negotiation awareness, and structured escalation skills.
Fluent in English and the local plant language, as required.

Responsibilities

Own plant transportation planning and execution in accordance with approved lanes, routing guides, modes, carriers, rates, and system workflows.
Balance cost, service, capacity, inventory, and risk while maintaining shipment visibility and disciplined exception management.
Move the plant from reactive freight decisions to planned, system-based, and measurable logistics execution.
Tender, dispatch, monitor, and recover shipments through the approved TMS process, keeping pickup, transit, delivery, and exception status visible.
Enforce approval, reason codes, cost ownership, root cause, and recurrence prevention for premium and expedited freight.