What are the responsibilities and job description for the Equipment Controls Designer position at Honda Development and Manufacturing of America?
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 Electrical Controls Design role provides high quality, reasonably priced, on-time hardware, software, and safety design solutions to ensure stable new model and new technology introduction in all HDMA North American manufacturing facilities.
Key Accountabilities
- Work in an engineering team atmosphere understand design requirements to create / modify automated production equipment.
- Provide electrical design to produce engineering hardware data to assemble / build, and wire a control system for production equipment
- Provide electrical design to produce engineering software data to accomplish the control task for production equipment processes. (i.e. PLC, HMI, Motion Control, and Robotic programming).
- Provide on-site support to install, system up, and mature the control system for production equipment.
- Create and maintain a critical path schedule for work assignments to produce the control system design deliverables to achieve the overall project milestones for small to medium projects / low to medium complexity.
- Conduct and attend design reviews to ensure design standards are achieved and design meets specification requirements for work assignment deliverables.
- Continuously apply engineering mindset to learn new skills / processes / technology to expands one knowledge base in relevant manufacturing technologies.
- 75% Office environment - Design.
- 25% Manufacturing floor – Installation / System up / Maturation
- Must be willing to conduct physical confirmations in the manufacturing environment and conduct testing / debug on the manufacturing floor and / or at vendor sites. Sometimes on weekends.
- Travel up to 20% (North American Manufacturing Plants) Potential for International Travel
- Average work week is 45~48 hours (some weekends and 1 week shutdowns twice per year)
Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
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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.
