New Model Principal Project Engineer

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



Production Project Leader (PPL).  Promote all plant manufacturing activities for New Model Development to assure achievement of key targets and customer satisfaction for power unit manufacturing components.  Develop Power Unit Operation manufacturing strategy related to New Model projects. Kick-off, lead, and summarize investigations.  Project management items including project schedule development, leading discussions at meetings with design team, achieving project milestones, initiating themes and lead/support project analysis and resolution.  Lead New Model evaluations by summarizing Zone activity for plant evaluations. Coordinate and support We Are Ready activities for New Model build events and mass production by setting schedules, evaluating departments, and summarizing/judging results.  Review and understand impact of design changes and manufacturing instructions.  Manage financials by completing plan-do-check-action for responsible zone including budget application, purchase orders, invoice, and project closure. Follow document management controls and promote/encourage/explain New Model confidentiality with project team.

Key Accountabilities



• Management of short term and mid-term new model projects on a daily basis by understanding current project status, controlling gap closure with dept project leads, and communicate as required

• Evaluate Department Project Lead new model content related to key deliverables such as trial event and mass production readiness, quality, cost, and associate training.  Focus and lead gap closure on items not meeting target

• Manage and summarize activity for New Model evaluation and present to Quality/Manufacturing Divisions Lead and Plant Lead associates

• Establish/Manage key milestones of cost including New Model investment and expense related to new model spec/new technologies by leading cost down