Equipment Design Senior Engineer (Hiring Immediately)

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

Work as part of a multi-discipline team to introduce and implement equipment required for new model introduction into Honda facilities. By leveraging 3D CAD software and simulation tools, they will need to identify key change points and summarize into a specification that fixes design requirements. This individual will be asked to drive forward projects and activity as functional Project Leader, PIC, or Subject Matter Expert, from inception through the handoff to final design/assy. They will be asked to focus on characteristic improvements, which align with the Business Unit strategy and regional goals. They will be asked to collaborate with the design team and plant members in order to achieve required quality, cost, and safety criteria.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development of new/optimal machine concepts for any process characteristic change; by utilizing fundamentally sound engineering principles
• Act as zone/process/project subject matter expert (SME). This includes leading the technical support of a project and the ability to feed/directly support the Project Leadership function. As SME, the associate should lead engineering correlation with PL/PM functions, as well as support correlation with external functions (ex. external suppliers or plant resources) for that project.
• Functionally act as direct project leaders for midsize/large business plan projects, driving forward the project from an engineering perspective
• Lead detailed process studies of new model car part to understand machine capability, feeding back issues to car part designers as needed.
• Creation of Specification/Scope of Work documentation to summarize changepoints, establish criteria and process/part flow. Includes onsite verification during installation/integration phase of the project.
• Independently lead group/unit level improvements in core methods and procedures.
• Support the mentoring of associates and associate development across the group
• Create and maintain a critical path schedule to maintain overall project milestones

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent work experience

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Other Job-Specific Skills

• Deep knowledge/understanding of 3D CAD systems and software
• Background in automated equipment development
• Excellent technical communication skills (both written and oral)

Working Conditions

• 85% Office environment – creation of specification documentation.
• 15% Manufacturing floor – direct line side investigation / system-up support / verification at any Honda facility
• Must be willing to travel locally, regional, and internationally as required on a project basis (to Honda facilities or external equipment vendors).

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)