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.
Job Purpose:
Serve as a Process Engineer responsible for assembly process development and determining the sequence of assembly for new spec parts based upon existing process/parts lay out/process standard time (ST) and/or the maintenance and optimization of established process.
Key Accountabilities:
- Use M.O.S.T. To develop balanced processes across manufacturing areas.
- Work to achieve high process efficiency.
- Apply lean manufacturing techniques.
- Design processes that are simple and achieve SQCDM targets.
- Identify opportunities to reduce waste within the process and improve efficiency.
- Apply 5S work methods, workstation design, and set best practices for production.
- Audit big data to ensure accurate information across all operation standards.
- Mobilize Excel formulas and VBA coding to optimize tasks.
- Support New Model events.
- Forecast design impact to department.
- Incorporate change points into process design.
- Identify concerns and countermeasures before mass production.
- Perform time estimates for assembly line work, equipment loads and develop operation standards.
- Conduct studies to determine the most efficient sequence of operations and workflow and recommends methods for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel.
- Regularly lead meetings with other Honda functional groups to develop and launch improvement themes (quality, safety, delivery, production, purchasing, packaging, or logistics).
- Collect feedback from the production floor and address their concerns.
- Evaluate and implement ergonomic countermeasures to prevent associate injury.
- Develop plans and schedules for projects.
- Set timelines and detailed activities.
- Hold meetings with cross functional engineering groups to ensure completeness.
- Project support for all items impacting assembly department’s associate process.
Qualifications, Experience, and Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (e.g., Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or similar); or 6 years relevant experience required
- 0-6 years’ experience based on education
- Knowledge of: Process Data Development and Analysis (PDDA); process engineering (MOST); parts numbers, BOM, and applications; Assembly (AF) quality control systems and specification; Assembly (AF) techniques and processes; New model project development; quality control systems and workflows; Assembly (AF) department layout and equipment.
- Skill in: Analytical problem solving and decision making; communicating change to others, root cause analysis, collaboration with others, and self-driven.
Working Conditions:
- Shift schedule is primarily a first shift position but at times require supporting additional shifts/hours
- Position could require some travel to other HDMA locations or supplier locations
- Position could require daily overtime or Saturday overtime
- Position could require DPC coverage to the production floor 50% Fast-paced high-energy manufacturing environment, 50% office environment
