Weldability Engineer Specialist

Honda • Full-time • Lincoln, Alabama • 2h ago

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.”

Job Purpose

Meet customer expectations by establishing and leading systems that develop, implement, confirm and sustain welding processes which ensure white body structural integrity through New Model and Mass Production to maintain and improve SQCDME characteristics and meet business plan goals.

Key Accountabilities

Lead destruct activity, including training, to confirm equipment and weld quality to prevent shipment of non-conforming product and meet HES (Honda Engineering Standard) requirements.
Lead, manage and maintain weldability equipment systems and documentation that supports the development and implementation of countermeasures that achieve and improve quality goals and characteristics improvements.
Provide engineering technical knowledge through comprehension and promotion of HES (Honda Engineering Standard), Specifications, Drawings, and deptartment reporting documentation to ensure compliance.
Provide Past Problem History of spot weld problem areas in equipment, stackups, gaps, etc. and recommend New Model spec changes to improve characteristics and prevent outflow.
Confirm stackups and develop countermeasure weld parameters (ie. Squeeze force, current, time, etc..) to meet HES (Honda Engineering Standard) requirements.
Manage Business Plan through FOG (Future Operational Growth) activity for improvements to ensure delivery and quality targets are met.
Review drawing data at each drawing event and provide feedback of potential new struggle areas to support New Model development activity to improve manufacturability.
Lead, evaluate, investigate and make proposals of specs for welding equipment needs (in the areas of new equipment, consumables, welding hardware, spare parts, Preventive Maintenance and inspection technologies) and act as a liaison between the department and vendors to ensure the department meets quality, delivery and cost requirements.
Maintain regular communication with other facilities to coordinate North America or global weld activity to adopt best practices.
Develop, manage and implement the established Company E-Flow to accomplish Business Plan Targets.
Develop self and team through technical training, mentoring, and sharing of experience for team growth.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 2 years engineering experience
OR Associate's Degree in Engineering and 6 years engineering experience
OR High School Diploma and 8 years engineering experience
2-8 years of welding, equipment engineering and/or robotics engineering experience
Strong verbal and written communication, equipment or robotics experience

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