Senior Principal Engineer - Product Safety Investigations

Job Description

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!

​ About this Position :

The Senior Principal Engineer is responsible for managing and reporting product safety as it relates to regulatory matters. This includes of official safety-related investigations and for Automotive and Motorcycle products to ensure Honda’s regulatory compliance, reporting and on-time agency submissions. Conduct data analysis of market quality within Honda and the industry and report results to department. Support the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation (TREAD Act) Team.

Responsibilities include :

• Respond to official product safety investigations, including defect and non-compliance investigations. This includes clarifying supplied engineering documents for agency appropriateness of US or Japan Market Quality investigations / results and supporting schedules and deadlines to submit reports on-time.
• Manage and coordinate internal, cross-functional teams to promote regulatory positioning of product issues and investigations. Ensure Market Quality testing scope reflects agency and customer viewpoints.
• Respond to agency quarterly meeting agenda items as well as special investigation requests. This includes managing and coordinating multiple business unit information and scope from Customer Service, Sales, Market Quality, Product Technical and other stakeholders.
• Conduct analysis of Market Quality data including NHTSA Vehicle Owner Questionnaire to find trends, identify emerging market issues and agency attention items with Honda and other OEM data.
• Support regulatory obligations under the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation (TREAD) Act, including Early Warning Reporting (EWR) process, data collection, documentation, and submission of safety-related information to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

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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.