Assistant Manager Production Operations

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose



Provide strategic leadership and ownership of the plant-wide Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) management process for Indiana Auto Plant (IAP). Ensures the integrity of customer promise dates and effective cross- functional coordination.

This role governs the ETA standards, leads the enterprise cadence connecting production operations to American Honda Sales, and drives systemic improvements that increase ETA accuracy, reduces revisions, accelerate issue resolution, and strengthen trust in ETA performance across both plants.

Key Accountabilities



• Lead the ETA governance cadence (daily/weekly) across IAP.

• Partner with American Honda to manage critical ship dates of all units produced at IAP daily.

• Serve as the decision authority for ETA promise protection by applying revision standards, approving or denying revision and prioritization requests, documenting rationale in the ETA Management System, and announcing major updates and impacts to sales and plant leadership.

• Drive continuous improvement in ETA performance, trend revisions/unit, minimizing padding days, and addressing aging holds; Evaluate and set direction on countermeasure action.

• Own the implementation and adoption of the ETA Management System: Train associates on system functions, support on‑call roster for plant, system defect reporting and troubleshooting.

• Oversee hold visibility and recovery performance: Leads departments to revise ETAs for hold units quickly and accurately. Collaborate with departments to, where possible, release units on time.

• Coach leaders and cross-functional teams on standard processes (huddle scripts, quick‑refs, escalation cards) and ensure adoption.

• Communicate across multiple levels to motivate resolve conflicts and improve decisions using Honda standard processes.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills



• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations, or equivalent experience

• 8 years in manufacturing operations,