Equipment Engineer (Controls)

Honda North America
$68,700.00 - $103,000.00
United States, Alabama, Lincoln
Jan 10, 2025
What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Hondahas 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 Provide effective technical expertise for Electrical & Control systems at the Alabama Auto Plant by designing, managing and implementing equipment solutions, based on requirements of the department's business plan to ensure company sustainability. Key Accountabilities 1. Develop, manage, and implement established E-Flow (evaluation flow) for investment projects to accomplish business plan targets 2. Complete equipment improvement activity and the decision making process to improve characteristics which empower every associate to succeed 3. Adhere to equipment installation standards (drawings, compliance, data) to effectively improve MTBF (mean time between failures) and MTTR (mean time to repair) 4. Drive, support, and develop engineering solutions to solve complex problems in order to achieve department targets 5. Become a SME (subject matter expert) to research applications, introduce new technologies, and provide associated technical training to drive continuous process improvements 6. Utilize data analysis and customer feedback to identify potential problems and implement countermeasures to reduce impact to SQCDME (safety, quality, cost, delivery, morale, environmental7. Develop and maintain technical documentation/procedures to meet design intent for long term production sustainability 8. Develop capability of self, colleagues and team through training, mentoring, sharing of experiences and abilities to ensure team technical skill set growth 9.Share engineering technical knowledge and change points through verbal and written information to all internal and external customers to strengthen department and plant characteristics 10. Identify gaps in business plan categories, pertaining to equipment, to develop, lead and/or actively participate in the execution of activities to improve SQCDME (safety, quality, cost, delivery, morale, environmental) Qualifications, Experience, and Skills Education Bachelor's Engineering degree -or- equivalent experience with equipment Experience 0-6 years Engineering experience Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) Skills Ability to create technical presentations Ability to teach others Communication and Presentation Working Conditions 40 Hours per week manufacturing production environment Able and flexible to work OT on a daily basis, weekend & during shutdowns as business/project needs dictate. Automated, Robotic Equipment Cells Travel required as needed. 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.