Chief Engineer (Honda) - FCM

Title: Chief Engineer Honda

Reports To: Engineering Director

Description:

The Chief Engineer Honda is responsible for driving and ensuring that technical and manufacturing solution meets or exceeds the customer and company objectives/targets. He/She maintains smooth relationship with customers, ensuring projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with company policies and objectives. He/She manages, coaches and leads the product engineers, manages technical work packages, and sets objectives for all team members.

His main missions are to :

• Insure locally the direct management of PDL(Program Development Leader) & PML (Program Manufacturing Leader) team

• Participate or at least validate and sign the product design & Functional Milestones

• Ensure that the technical portion of programs are delivered on time, within budgets, to the satisfaction of the customer

• Keep customer and company management informed of product status

• Ensure the accuracy of engineering bill of material throughout product development and launch process

• Be responsible for APQP documents including DFMEA, DVP&R, Performance Target Setting

• Ensure that design content meets NVH, engine performance, weight targets and other targets listed in a SOW type format

• During Budget/PMT, plan & check the staffing for their customer (quantity and quality), including serial life

• Be informed of all RFQs received for CV customers:

  • Be part of negotiations if needed (disagreement between the customer standards and Faurecia proposals for any reason such as local market test capacities etc...)

  • Validate and challenge technical definitions, DVP

  • Validate Development budget

  • Consulted for the GO-NO GO

• Be the Product development representative in Program Steering committee

• Pilot transversal actions (regarding programs) in direct link with CBU manager

• Promote innovation in coordination with Product Line Engineering

He works with the CBU Manager to ensure staffing of PDL and PML for programs, product robustness and technical relationship with supervisors.

Requirements

Qualifications:

Minimum Education Level: Bachelor Degree (Master's degree advanatage) in engineering with strong competencies in mechanical and thermomechanical durability, materials, CFD, acoustics

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Minimum of 10 years experience in Design & Development within Passenger Vehicle

• Communication and problem solving skills

• Leadership

• Familiar with primary manufacturing methods : tube and sheet metal forming, welding assembly

• Strong practice of product development tools FMEA, GD&T…

• General automotive knowledge and Tier 1 or EOM engineering experience

• APQP experience

• Strong teamwork mindset

• Japanese fluent speaker with business level of English

All Faurecia’s employee should comply with the Code of Ethics and Code of Management.

Affiliation:

Job Level: M&P

Function: R&D, Engineering

Location: Japan

Organization: FCM Japan

MUST BE JAPANESE PERSON or......non-Japanese with 1) fluent Japanese skills, 2) long experience with engine/exhaust products and 3) Strong Honda