Principal Engineer - Product Safety Investigations

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 Principal Engineer is responsible for supporting the Sr. Principal Engineer with product safety and regulatory matters. This includes the support of official safety-related investigations for Automotive and Motorcycle products to ensure Honda's regulatory compliance, reporting and on-time submissions. Conduct data analysis of market quality within Honda and the industry and report results to the department.

Key Accountabilities

• Support responses to official product safety investigations, including defect and non-compliance investigations. This includes clarifying supplied engineering documents for agency appropriateness and ensuring US and/or Japan Market Quality investigations/results are clear and easy to understand, and supporting schedules and deadlines are managed appropriately to submit reports on-time
• Coordinate with internal, cross-functional teams to promote regulatory positioning of product issues and investigations. Support Sr. Principal Engineer in ensuring Market Quality testing scope reflects agency expectations and customer viewpoints
• Support Sr. Principal Engineer responses to agency's quarterly meeting agenda items as well as special investigation requests. This includes coordinating responses with multiple business units such as Customer Service, Sales, Market Quality, Product Technical and others
• Conduct data analysis of Market Quality data including NHTSA Vehicle Owner Questionnaire (VOQ) to find trends, identify market issues and monitor agency attention items with Honda and other OEM data. Inform Sr. Principal Engineer and escalate areas of concern where necessary.
• Stay current on FMVSS and assist with SED consultation and interpretation

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• 7 years of product technical experience
• 3 years of experience in product safety or regulatory complianc
• Excellent ability to understand complex safety issues and technologies and explain situations in a simple way
• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills to evaluate potential safety and compliance issues
• Experience with quality analysis and defect/root cause investigation.
• Ability to quickly develop knowledge base and effectively engage in technical and regulatory discussions.
• Strong interpersonal skills with good leadership potential to support Sr. Principal Engineers and guide Quality Engineers.

Working Conditions

• General office environment
• Light physical demands, including testing and driving support
• Approximately 5-10% travel
• Limited overtime, but as required to meet response deadlines

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development Programs

Additional Offerings:

• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs
• Free Drinks Onsite

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.