Product Testing Engineer

Location: Raymond

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

Product Testing Engineer is responsible for executing development projects with the viewpoint of collision safety to generate 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. The Product Testing Engineer will utilize CAE analysis to forecast collision safety performance, then validate those results by actual testing of a physical prototype.

Key Accountabilities

* Develop basic component and system layouts for ATV/SxS prototype vehicles that achieve concept targets, function requirements, and manufacturing requisites with minimal supervision. Communicate specification requirements and manufacturing control points via prototype, production drawings and prepare test summaries.

* Set basic performance targets to satisfy vehicle concept and competitiveness. Perform validations of specification targets, requirements, components, and complete vehicles through application of engineering principles, simulations, and physical testing with minimal supervision. Maintain accurate technical, development, and administrative documentation as required.

* Create and manage schedule of individual work to ensure deadlines are met, communicate resource needs with supervisor, and effectively utilize contractor resources with minimal supervision. Consistently communicate project status real time and participate in project meetings, discussions, and development events.

* Generate basic ideas that contribute to the evolution of new technologies. Support maturation of ideas to prepare for development applications with minimal supervision.

* Support market quality themes. Utilize problem-solving methods to investigate root causes. Advance and implement C/M specs as necessary.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Education al Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Minimum Experience

Experience with data acquisition is strongly desirable

Hands-on experience maintaining, repairing vehicles is strongly desirable

Experience riding Power Sports products (motorcycles, ATV, SxS) is strongly desirable

Other Job-Specific Skills

Capable data acquisition and laboratory skills/techniques

Capable analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization

Capable data acquisition and laboratory skills

Capable understanding of development project cycles, milestones

Capable in Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Competent in written and oral communication

Competent analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization

Competent in creating a plan and schedule

Competent time management skills

Must be able to possess a high level of confidentiality

Working Conditions

* Travel:
Up to 10% may be required. Amount varies based on project demands/responsibilities, conferences, etc.; includes possible overseas travel.

* Physical:
Primarily at a desk, some work in a lab and/or test vehicle, frequent keyboarding. Frequent kneeling, standing, reaching, squatting, bending, pushing and lifting. Some physical effort required (pushing 50+ pounds;…