Mechanical Design Senior Engineer - Chassis

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!

To contribute to the development of 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.

• Develop or guide others to develop complex component and system layouts for ATV/SxS prototype vehicles using computer-aided design software that achieve concept targets, function requirements, and manufacturing requisites without supervision. Communicate specification requirements and manufacturing control points via prototype and production drawings that result in setting the final specifications of global ATV & SxS new models and mass production vehicles. Maintain accurate technical, development, and administrative documentation as required.
  
  Delegate work appropriately.
• Establish or lead others to establish cost targets for responsible parts that contribute to achievement of the vehicle development targets and achieve the cost targets through optimizing difficult part/system designs and offsetting any spec changes after target fix through implementation of additional cost reduction ideas and strategies.
• Create and manage schedule of individual work or other’s work to ensure deadlines are met, coordinate resource needs with supervisor, and effectively utilize contractor resources without supervision. Consistently communicate project status and participate or lead project meetings, discussions, and development events.
• Generate advanced ideas and contribute to building comprehensive strategies that support the evolution of new technologies. Support or lead maturation of ideas to prepare for development applications with limited supervision.
• Support or lead market quality themes without supervision. Utilize problem-solving methods to analyse root causes. Develop and implement C/M specs as necessary without supervision. Lead recurrence prevention when appropriate.

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering

Required Experience:

8 or more years of experience (Powersports or Automotive preferred)

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to interact/communicate effectively with staff/management
• Must be able to operate with high level of confidentiality
• Competent in FTA, FMEA, dimensional tolerance stack-ups and application
• Competent analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization
• Competent drawing and layout skills/techniques, include understanding of CAE principles
• Competent in creating a plan and schedule
• Competent in understand product development schedules

Please Note:

Sponsorship for employment visa status for these positions is unavailable. Applicants requiring sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future (e.g., F-1 CPT/OPT, H-1B, TN, etc.) will not be considered.

• Propose spec and drawings
• Prioritization of individual workload or workload of others
• Balance of QCD for complex situations in individual area of responsibility

Travel:
Average of 1-3 times monthly. Amount varies based on project…