Business Project Manager

About the role

Lead the prototype assembly of engines in both an offline and online environment. Evaluate product change points, identify impacts to production tools, parts delivery racks, and other process concerns. Develop and create budget requirements for those items, and provide required training engines and replacement parts to support production associate training. Identify potential safety and quality problems and determine concerns for maintaining smooth production flow. Report to the New Model project leader of the designated line and manage process trainer associates’ daily activities.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage and approve process training associates; document staff-issued items, assign tasks, provide feedback and education on mistakes or gaps.
• Develop and coordinate support associates (trainers) for the entire New Model flow up to and through trial events and Mass production.
• Schedule, analyze, and issue Assembly department build activity based on trial event manager parts receiving and final assembly shipping times.
• Determine appropriate production loss requirements for each day of each event and communicate with the Assembly line leader to incorporate into the monthly production schedule.
• Determine each event’s measured parts units and schedule them to balance workload and minimize downtime.
• Determine process tools and part delivery racks needed in mass production by reviewing design changes and process plans; create a budget for these items.
• Review design changes and ensure correct documentation for training, parts difference sheets, and Critical Control Points sheets.
• Lead meetings before and after build events and manage items through the project punch list.
• Create, track, and report event downtime plan and actual results; work with future countermeasures throughout new model events; report countermeasure request status.
• Manage new model tools, racks, etc. expense budgets to achieve project cost targets and future operating costs.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Minimum Educational Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in a related field or equivalent related job experience
• Minimum Experience: 0–4 years of related experience
• Other Job-Specific Skills: Self-motivation and strong interpersonal skills; problem-solving and root cause analysis skills; ability to lead and teach others; ability to deliver meeting information to diverse groups including production associates and engineers

Working Conditions

• 5–10 hours of overtime per week
• Domestic travel 1–3 times per year for 1–3 days, plus occasional day trips to Honda Ohio locations; international travel possible up to 2 weeks at a time, multiple times per year
• Manufacturing environment with multiple model knowledge and high-pace workload

Benefits

• Competitive base wages (based on several variables including geographic location and work experience)
• Paid overtime
• Regional bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading benefit plans (medical, dental, vision, Rx)
• Paid time off including vacation and holidays, plus company-paid shutdown
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
• 401(k) plan with company match and additional contribution

Career Growth

• Advancement opportunities and career mobility
• Education reimbursement for continued learning
• Training and development programs

Additional Offerings

• Lifestyle account
• Childcare reimbursement account
• Tuition assistance and student loan repayment
• Elder care support
• Wellbeing program
• Community service and engagement programs
• Product programs