# Cost Innovation Project Lead Development

**Company**: American Honda Motor Company
**Location**: Raymond, Ohio
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $63,700.00 - $79,600.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744011

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## Description

We are seeking a Cost Innovation Project Lead Development to join our team at American Honda Motor Company. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading cost reduction activities for SxS/ATV/PE/L&G products, collaborating with purchasing, production, and other teams to achieve business cost targets.

**Job Purpose** The Cost Innovation (CI) project lead Development is responsible for Cost Reduction (CR) activities for SxS/ATV/PE/L&G products. Implement various CR activities in collaboration with purchasing, production, and GO, and work with the new model development team to achieve business cost targets.

**Key Accountabilities**

- Support New Model Development: Preliminary Cost Planning

- Centralized management of CR ideas in a database

- Promoting CR in mass production design changes, Support Drawing Issue for CR

- Optimizing manufacturing processes in collaboration with suppliers

- Improvement of in-house manufacturing processes

- Development of new suppliers

- Formulation of a parts strategy

**Qualifications, Experience, and Skills**

- Minimum Educational Qualifications: Bachelors or Associates degree 2 years’ experience or 6+ years of applied work experience.

- Minimum Experience: 2 years’ of job related experience, 1-3 years development experience.

- Other Job-Specific Skills: Understanding of development procedure, SEDB functions, competent drawing and layout skills, excellent multi-tasking, prioritizing, and decision-making skills.

**Working Conditions**

- Majority of time is in office environment.

- Physical: primarily deskwork, frequent keyboarding.

- Overtime: 10-15 hours overtime per week possible based on project demands and responsibilities.

- Occasional weekend work.

- Travel: As required depending on project demand, typically less than 25%

**Total Rewards**

- Competitive Base Salary

- Paid Overtime

- Regional Bonus (when applicable)

- 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)

## Skills

### Required
- cost reduction
- manufacturing processes
- supplier development
- parts strategy
- drawing and layout skills

### Nice to have
- development procedure
- SEDB functions
- multi-tasking
- prioritizing
- decision-making skills

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