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
The Manufacturing Systems Unit (MSU) resides in the Smart Factory department in HDMA’s Digital Innovation Division which is on a mission to develop and implement strategies and standards that leads Honda’s manufacturing sites into the next generation automotive products. Lead the unit in areas of technical growth and understanding providing robust and controlled documents for support. Provide technical judgements for the unit’s systems in areas of research, development and deployment including working with Department Tech Lead on strategies to achieve future direction. Be responsible for Project Management guidance and participation for supporting MSU’s involvement in overall department objectives as well as the diffusion of activity across NA Manufacturing plants to improve business value and plant characteristics.
Key Accountabilities
Lead long-term planning and implementation of the MSU roadmap, strategy and initiatives ensuring alignment with the department, company and division technical direction
Support business goal achievement through in-depth technical analysis of systems and infrastructure to be introduced into our production facilities.
Support the Dept. Technical Lead(s) as the MSU technical expert on large-scale regional and global projects to ensure requirements are met, technical criteria are defined, validated, and evaluated, and consensus is gained within the project team to make the best decision.
Serve as the first-level evaluator of medium to high complexity for all MSU team technical evaluations ensuring all requirements and technical criteria are considered and achieved.
Provide Technical support and training for the unit in areas of system updates and judgement of technical output for smart factory initiatives in areas of development and validation of new or updated digital methods
Support the Manufacturing Systems Unit by providing technical guidance and training for MSU projects to ensure expected results are achievable and aligned with company, business unit and division directives
Collaborate with associates in the Manufacturing Systems Unit, Manufacturing Management Center and IT to ensure project backlogs are in place and Safe Agile methodology is created and followed for success in the development and deployment of projects
Support the agile transformation of smart factory value streams within Digital Innovation Division including collaboration with IT and external partners
