Senior Equipment Service Staff I

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

• Reliability position, including, but not limited to, Developing and leading all inclusive asset management strategies and activities for respective department in support of ELP’s reliability direction.
• Leading advanced top problem PDCA, RCA, risk management, end of life, PMO, FMEA, and loss elimination.
• Leading advanced, highly technical, and data driven reliability activities to promote change by engaging associates in creating and implementing characteristic improvements.
• Leading reliability team members and dept members to drive and achieve the highest asset reliability and availability at an optimum cost.
• Developing and delivering reliability training in addition to supporting new asset design reviews to improve asset uptime and life cycle costs.

Key Accountabilities

• Utilize asset performance tracking to identify chronic equipment deficiencies or capacity restraints and countermeasure through advanced project activity or reliability strategy development (Rsd).
• Lead continuous PDCA activity, support advanced root cause analysis and countermeasure development
• Utilize KPI’s (RR, CTA, Efficiency, Incident report status, etc.) to understand and convey impact of improvement activity
• Develop and implement reporting and analysis tools
• Create detailed & data driven summary information for periodic top problem theme progress checks, KPI PDCA reviews, and reporting.
• Support advanced root cause analysis, countermeasure development and evaluations to ensure technical depth & horizontal application
• Support sharing with internal Dept's & NA Genpos
• Identify repeating events for deep analysis
• Track RCA countermeasures to ensure timely closure.
• Continuously seek new and advanced technology and strategies that can be applied to improve East Liberty Plant's reliability characteristics
• Data analysis, horizontal application checks, theme sheet development, Dept. reliability SAP development support
• Work closely with Departments to support implementation of key BP themes by providing training, standards, templates, specialized skills and mentorship as required.
• Manage activity of direct reports
• Provide advanced mentorship to direct reports.
• Lead and support meetings that drive reliability activity locally & regionally
• Lead and support Plant and North American reliability initiatives
• Lead, support, and participate in Plant BP activities
• Collaborate and share best practices locally and regionally.
• Support the delivery of Honda Asset Management and Reliability (HAMR) training with focus on PMO, RCA & De topics
• Ongoing teaching and mentorship for root cause analysis (RCA)
• Leverage opportunities to challenge RCA assumptions and ensure all findings are supported with facts
• Foster a culture where assumptions are not tolerated, and data and facts are critical to success.
• Track & trend critical BP reliability indicators including sharing with leadership to report on progress. 

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum educational qualifications:

• Preferably a Bachelors level degree in Mechanical engineering or a related STEM field of study.
  • Associate degree holders must have at least 4 years of relevant industry experience.
  • High School Diploma holders must have at least 6 years of relevant experience in the industry.
• Other desirable qualifications: Certified Reliability leader; Certified Maintenance Manager

Minimum work experience:

• At least 3 or more years of demonstrable industry experience in equipment maintenance, in a manufacturing environment.
• ECD / Reliability Engineering or comparable experience will be an asset.
• Desirable: Multiple departments experience.

Other job-specific skills:

• Understanding of process/department process flow, Maximo entry knowledge and experience, Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) skillset.
• Complex problem analysis skills, PLC and Industrial Networking/Communication, Mechanical Know How, E-Flow
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word)
• CAD (Catia, and AutoCAD)
• Time management skills

Workstyle

• This is a 100% onsite job.
• Annual travel requirements :
  • Approx.10% - largely domestic; rarely international.
• Other physical requirements:
  • Should be able to carry 50lb for a minimum of 50 ft distance, without any assistance
  • May occasionally need to climb a ladder
  • Should be able to identify colors.

Visa sponsorship issues

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx) 
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development programs 

Additional Offerings:

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.