Manufacturing Council
Jan Allman
Jan Allman
President, CEO & General Manager, Marinette Marine Corporation
Jan Allman was appointed President, CEO, and General Manager of Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC), a Fincantieri company, on July 7, 2014.
Ms. Allman comes to MMC with extensive manufacturing and operational excellence experience. Prior to joining MMC, Ms. Allman served as the Vice President of Global Manufacturing at Navistar Corporation, where she and her manufacturing team played a pivotal role in helping to reinvent Navistar’s manufacturing landscape. Under Ms. Allman’s leadership, Navistar’s vehicle and engineer manufacturing plants across North America implemented numerous rigorous standardized systems and processes and established dedicated onsite quality resources. These efforts resulted in significant improvements to the quality of Navistar’s products and greater customer satisfaction.
Ms. Allman began her career with the Ford Motor Company at the Lima, Ohio engine plant at the age of 19. She ended up spending 26 years at Ford in numerous vehicle and powertrain manufacturing roles with increasing responsibilities, with career assignments including engineering and production both in the U.S. and Europe. Her last position at Ford was as Chicago Assembly plant manager, where she was responsible for the plant’s overall operation, the safety of its 2,500+ workforce, a $335M annual budget and more than $8B in annual revenue. During her tenure at the Chicago assembly plant, she successfully implemented a lean manufacturing model and launched nine vehicles in three years with a product portfolio complexity unlike any other facility. She and her team continued their focus on safety, improved labor hours per vehicle, exceeded budget targets, and delivered best-in-class quality durinag a time of rapid change.
Ms. Allman holds a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from GMI Engineering and Management Institute in Flint, Michigan. She plans on residing in Wisconsin with her husband, Jeff, and their two daughters, Ariel and Jade.
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