This role focuses on ensuring customer safety and peace of mind by conducting reliability evaluations of fuel tank systems in all market environments. Responsibilities include planning and executing bench and vehicle driving tests, developing reliability through experimental planning, and elucidating mechanisms. The engineer will define system weaknesses, create experimental conditions based on market usage, and collaborate with various departments. The position offers opportunities for personal growth, skill acquisition in material mechanics and fluid dynamics, experience in equipment investment, and network building. Future career paths include management in fuel tank reliability or related fields.

Must Have

• Possess knowledge necessary for automobile development such as material mechanics, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics.
• TOEIC: 600 points or higher.

Good to Have

• Experience in product development using material mechanics and fluid dynamics, and having completed some product development.
• Experience in business communication in English with overseas bases and possessing global communication skills.
• TOEIC: 730 points or higher.

Job Content

① Department's Development Area, Business Overview, and Role/Position within R&D

We conduct reliability evaluations of fuel tank systems to ensure customers can drive and refuel with peace of mind in any market environment. We primarily perform bench tests on systems and driving tests on vehicles, and are responsible for reliability development through experimental planning and mechanism elucidation.

② Specific Job Responsibilities and Expected Role/Position within and outside the Department

This job involves defining system weaknesses from the system configuration, creating experimental conditions to evaluate those weaknesses based on market usage and environment, and actually planning experiments. You will leverage your relevant specialized knowledge, communicate with related departments, synthesize various opinions, and incorporate them into experimental conditions.

③ Workplace Environment and Work Style (Member Composition, Workplace Atmosphere, Characteristics)

The workplace consists of a group of engineers (experiment planning) and a group of technical engineers (experiment execution). We cooperate with each other, challenging new experiments and technical issues daily, incorporating new technologies in addition to past experiences. The department includes members from young to veteran, and there is an atmosphere where you can consult various people when you are in trouble.

Appeal Points (Job Attractiveness)

① Personal Growth, Acquirable Skills, and Job Satisfaction through the Role

You can directly feel how vehicle performance and structure improve by feeding back experimental results, and you can experience contributing to manufacturing. You can deepen your knowledge of material mechanics, fluid dynamics, etc., which are important in automobile development, through fuel tank reliability development work. You can experience the entire process from proposing equipment investment to introducing new experimental facilities. You can build a network with various people as there are many related departments and individuals.

② Future Career Paths and Positions

You can specialize in fuel tank reliability experiments and aim to become a manager in this field and the reliability industry. Furthermore, you can deepen your knowledge of material mechanics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and materials engineering, which are necessary in many industries for automobile development, making it easy to apply to other fields such as component design.

MUST

Possess knowledge necessary for automobile development such as material mechanics, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics.

Automotive industry experience: desirable

TOEIC: 600 points or higher

WANT

Experience in product development using material mechanics and fluid dynamics, and having completed some product development.

Experience in business communication in English with overseas bases and possessing global communication skills.

TOEIC: 730 points or higher

Desired Candidate Profile

Actively express one's thoughts and explain them based on logic. Also, have the enthusiasm to set high goals and see them through to the end without giving up.

Annual Income Range: Monthly Salary (Reference Value)

233,000 JPY to 439,000 JPY

• Determined comprehensively considering experience and expertise.

Estimated Annual Income (Reference Value)

Approximately 4,170,000 JPY to 7,660,000 JPY

• Monthly salary × 12 months + bonus (estimated value)
• Bonus amount is a reference value; actual payment timing, amount, and conditions are determined separately.

• Overtime pay, etc., will be paid separately based on employee wage regulations.