Product Testing Senior Engineer

American Honda Motor Co., Inc.•Raymond, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

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 Product Testing Senior Engineer is responsible for proficiently executing development projects to generate functioning prototypes that will eventually become production ATV/SxS vehicles, researching and applying new technologies to support business targets and maintaining global vehicle product quality.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
5 years previous engineering experience, preferably in Power Sports industry.
Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices required to complete difficult technical problems and project
Competent in FTA, FMEA
Competent analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization
Competent data acquisition and laboratory skills
Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills, including written and oral
Competent understanding of development project cycles, milestones
Competent time management skills
Must be able to possess a high level of confidentiality.

Responsibilities

Develop or guide others to develop complex component and system layouts for ATV/SxS prototype vehicles that achieve concept targets, function requirements, and manufacturing requisites without supervision.
Communicate specification requirements and manufacturing control points via prototype and production drawings.
Break down complicated work, delegate work appropriately and prepare high quality test summaries.
Set or guide others to set complex performance targets to satisfy vehicle concept and competitiveness.
Work cross-functional test teams to set perform validations of specification targets, requirements, components, and complete vehicles through application of engineering principles, simulations, and physical testing without supervision.
Maintain accurate technical, development, and administrative documentation as required.
Delegate work appropriately.
Create and manage schedule of individual work to ensure deadlines are achieved, communicate resource needs/concerns real-time with supervisor, and effectively utilize contractor resources with limited supervision.
Consistently communicate project status real time and participate in project meetings, discussions, and development events.
Generate advanced ideas that contribute to the evolution of new technologies.
Lead and reinforce maturation of ideas to prepare for development applications without supervision.
Prioritize, lead and address market quality themes.
Utilize problem-solving methods to analyse root causes.
Develop and implement C/M specs as necessary without supervision.
Lead recurrence prevention when appropriate.