# Appearance Design Team Lead - PowerSports

**Company**: American Honda Motor Company
**Location**: Raymond, Ohio
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $101,100 - $126,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744011

**Apply**: https://careers.honda.com/us/en/job/13314/Appearance-Design-Team-Lead-PowerSports?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/appearance-design-team-lead-powersports-1723b966-320/

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Appearance Design Team Lead - PowerSports to provide technical leadership and management for a Powersports design function. The successful candidate will guide engineering output, supervise team execution, and ensure delivery of high-quality specifications, designs, and development results.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Direct and approve engineering output by reviewing design specifications, calculations, drawings, and documentation to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with targets.

- Lead technical problem solving for development and mass production issues, driving root cause analysis, countermeasures, and risk mitigation.

- Lead, supervise, and contribute within a design team to realize development deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.

- Assign and balance workload, priorities, and resources to achieve development schedules and business targets.

- Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to develop team capability and ensure consistent output quality.

- Drive effective communication within the function and across other functions/departments to resolve issues, align expectations, and ensure smooth execution.

- Represent the function in discussions with management, suppliers, and global affiliates to advocate technical direction and resource needs.

- Grow technical capability through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and development of best practices.

- Improve design processes, tools, and methods to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and repeatability.

- Promote cross-functional learning and adoption of standardized engineering practices.

- Lead hiring and performance evaluation processes to maintain a capable and balanced organization.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or relevant field).

- 8+ years related work experience, preferably in Powersports or Automotive field.

- 2+ years supervisory/project leadership in a similar organization.

- Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).

- Competent in FTA, FMEA, dimensional tolerance stack-ups, and application.

- Competent analytical, problem-solving, judgment, decision-making, and prioritization skills.

- Competent drawing and layout skills/techniques using CAD software.

**What We Offer:**

- Competitive base salary ($101,100 - $126,300 per year).

- Regional bonus (when applicable).

- Manager Lease Car Program.

- 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).

- Lifestyle account.

- Childcare reimbursement account.

- Elder care support.

- Tuition assistance & student loan repayment.

- Wellbeing program.

- Community service and engagement programs.

- Product programs.

For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/).

## Skills

### Required
- FTA
- FMEA
- CAD software
- Microsoft Office
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- leadership skills
- mentoring skills
- communication skills

---

Source: [Apply at careers.honda.com](https://careers.honda.com/us/en/job/13314/Appearance-Design-Team-Lead-PowerSports?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)