R&D Process Sr. Engineer - American Honda Motor Co Inc

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!

Location

Raymond, OH    

Job Purpose

This role clarifies the relationship between the engineering development process and the associated expenses to support business and resource strategy.  Responsibilities include defining and analyzing development processes to meet resource targets, creating engineering difficulty ratings, and supporting engineering KPI creation and calculation.

Key Accountabilities

• Efficiency Theme Support and Monitoring: Create or modify engineering processes to meet resource requirements across many development areas.  Analyze the resource impact of each process and calculate gaps to resource targets.  For any gaps, propose which engineering area or process should be investigated for optimization.  Clearly document all information used and calculations.
• Development Complexity Rating: Determine quantitative rating for engineering difficulty based on future project engineering documents and schedules.  Clearly document all information used and load to database systems for promotion and alignment with all engineering management.
• Strategic Metric Support: Calculate development metrics using engineering data, perform analysis on results to identify patterns and insights, and share with metric leaders.  Support metric leaders to improve existing metrics or create new.
• Ad-Hoc Business Simulation: Support quick turn around business and resource simulation as required by company leaders.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant Engineering field (ex: Mechanical, Electrical)
• 3+ years of related automotive R&D work experience with a Bachelor’s degree in related field.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software (ex: PowerPoint, Excel)
• Experience creating & managing structured data or databases.
• Exposure to product development process and research themes.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation & relationship-building skills 
• Good decision-making, judgment, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good project management and process improvement skills
• Good negotiation, diplomacy, and conflict resolution skills

Workstyle

• 50-70% office area / 30-50% manufacturing area (at the spot)
• OT of 5-10 hours per week
• <5% travel (excluding other Ohio facilities)

Benefits and Total Rewards

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?
 
Total Rewards:

• Competitive base salary
• Overtime compensation
• Annual Bonus
• Associate lease car program with a cost
• Industry leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Paid time off, including vacation, paid holidays, sick time, personal days
• 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:

• Wellbeing program
• Community service and engagement programs
• Product programs
• Free drinks onsite

 
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.

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.