Job Description

Job Description

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!

Job Purpose

• The Design Research Senior Engineer in the CoE Division conducts sensing for NA market and consumer trends, extract emerging technologies, formulate hypothesis and propose research initiatives to provide value toward NA Honda’s business direction.   

Key Accountabilities

• Conduct sensing for NA market and consumer trends, extract emerging technologies, and propose research initiatives.
• Continuously summarize and correlate sensing results and conclusions with internal stakeholders.
• Propose and carry out advanced research of emerging technologies utilizing Agile methodologies to prove hypothesis and define value with speed.
• Independently manage technical project resources while maintaining leading knowledge of state-of-the-art principles and theories.
• Propose new technology research themes for implementation into the Honda technical strategy through existing meeting structure and cadence.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal and external research partners, industry experts, consortium members, university staff, and policy leaders to gather expertise and grow capability.
• Within defined technical pillar, identify root cause of highly technical and multidisciplinary problems and develop plans, designs, test systems, materials, techniques and processes to achieve objectives.
• Gain knowledge and expertise in emerging technologies, document findings, and inform others to grow the overall technical capability in North America.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering field or equivalent relevant experience in science/engineering research capacity.

Minimum Experience:

• 5 or more years relevant experience with focus on battery material characterization, manufacturing batteries rare earth metals, cathode / anode chemistries, battery performance modeling, recycling of battery materials, understanding of resource circularity. Chemistry -  Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP).
• New battery cell design
• Cell qualification
• Cell manufacturing &c.

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Passion for research, solving hard problems, and challenging the status quo.
• Ability to learn new topics of apply principles to design and manufacturing challenges.
• Working knowledge of Agile processes and methodologies
• Design experiments to test hypothesis and prove them out.
• Utilize agile process and methodologies to conduct sensing and research initiatives
• Confidently make autonomous decisions bounded by the research mission and understanding of the company business model.
• Ability to efficiently manage resources to achieve project initiatives and schedules
• Clearly communicate new research and technology concepts and ideas to technical team members and management.
• Scientifically analyze data provided from tests and experiments to gather knowledge and understanding of the subject of research.
• Oversee overall research project schedule, budget, and direction.

Working Conditions

• This position will require the employee to work at our ADC, Raymond, OH office at least 4 days per workweek. One remote workday a week may be possible with prior departmental approval.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Wages (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx) 
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development Programs 

Additional Offerings:

• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

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