Industrial Planning Manager - Houston, TX (TCT)

Tenaris•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Industrial Planning Manager manages and controls Industrial Engineering for the plants. The role oversees operating information management, prepares operating and industrial cost budgets, monitors compliance, and analyzes investment options. It identifies best practices, generates improvement opportunities, benchmarks across Tenaris plants, and interacts with Operations. The position analyzes business performance, market and industry developments, and operational results to identify opportunities and risks. It leads management control activities, prepares forecasts and annual budgets, monitors performance against targets, develops management reports and analytical tools, evaluates investment opportunities, and ensures the quality and reliability of business information. It also leads continuous improvement groups focused on manufacturing processes, capacity, and production costs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field.
Six years of experience in a related occupation in the steel-pipe manufacturing industry.
Experience conducting time studies on steel pipe and OCTG products to assess manufacturing line capabilities and establish standard productivity metrics.
Experience identifying cycle time optimization and resource utilization improvements.
Experience managing KPIs and performing data analytics using analytical tools to monitor and improve operational performance.
Experience ensuring data accuracy across data pipelines.
Experience defining annual industrial production budgets and setting performance commitments.
Experience leading continuous improvements using Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or Agile methods, including planning scope, milestones, and deliverables.
Experience maintaining project dashboards and databases.
Experience developing labor utilization forecasting models.

Responsibilities

Analyze business performance, market dynamics, industry trends, competitor activity, and customer developments to identify opportunities, risks, and areas for improvement across commercial and industrial operations.
Lead management control activities, monitoring commercial and industrial KPIs, costs, operational performance, and business results to support management decision-making.
Develop forecasts and annual budgets that integrate sales projections with production requirements, operating regimes, headcount needs, productivity targets, energy consumption, and manufacturing costs.
Monitor monthly performance and identify deviations against targets and budgets, working with relevant teams to define corrective actions and improvement plans.
Prepare and present management reports, dashboards, and performance analyses, translating market, financial, and operational information into conclusions, business implications, and recommended actions.
Develop analytical tools, models, and methodologies to improve competitiveness, optimize costs, increase capacity and productivity, and enhance business performance.
Evaluate business and industrial investment opportunities for technical and economic feasibility, expected benefits, cost implications, and return on investment.
Ensure the quality, consistency, and reliability of business information and data flows, including information exchanged across industrial and commercial systems, in accordance with company guidelines.
Use emerging technologies and advanced analytical tools to enhance forecasting, performance monitoring, decision support, and identification of improvement opportunities.
Lead continuous improvement groups to improve manufacturing processes, increase capacity, and reduce production costs.
Manage and control Industrial Engineering for plants, operating information management, operating and industrial cost budgets, compliance monitoring, and investment analysis.
Identify best practices and improvement opportunities through continuous benchmarking across Tenaris plants and interaction with Operations.