Manufacturing Principal Engineer - Paint (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

Develop strategies and standards to drive improvement activities toward achievement of benchmark manufacturing characteristics for continued profitability and smooth BEV introduction.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and lead strategy development, standard setting, and characteristic improvement activity at assigned factory department and across the region (multiple plants).
• Lead requested studies for local department and across the region related to project evaluations (through E-plan), new model/capacity/allocation requests, and BP themes.
• Characteristics Analysis – Data collection, benchmarking, best practice sharing.
• Analyze and act on Production Engineering Work Orders (PEWO) through the development of the engineering concept sheet (ECS), payback calculations, and environmental documents.
• Provide “voice of the floor” input to local, regional, and global new model and project teams 

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.

Minimum Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant engineering work experience (preference towards experience in Paint manufacturing category).

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Knowledge and experience with Honda Business Planning Process
• Strong verbal and written skills to communicate effectively both with customers and internal project teams
• Business acumen in a technical environment
• Demonstrated category specific expertise

Working Conditions

• Flexible Work Hours
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Estimate 5-10 Business trips per year may be required to support regional initiatives and improve overall efforts to improve standardization across the region. This activity may require short-term assignments at other Honda sites for 1-to-2-week periods.
• 5-15 hours of OT per week
• Weekend and holiday work may be required.

What differentiates Honda and makes 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.)
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included)
• 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:

• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• 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.