production engineer in Japanese company

Is this okay?

Takeshi Suzuki, thirty-two years old, a production engineer who works for a major company, K-Electric, spent every day while thinking about such things. He didn’t have much dissatisfaction with his work, nor did he hate the place he is now. His performance was excellent, he could speak English, and his potential was useful compared to the public average. Even when compared with other people in the company, he was expected as an ace from around.

The company based in Kansai area has been manufacturing parts for automobiles. It was an autocratic company of its founding of forty years, run by the owner-president. Thanks to the company’s expansion in one generation, the media coverage was high and owner was a celebrity in the industry.

When Suzuki joined the company, it was natural for everyone to work so hard in the environment of so called black company. Although the parts manufacturing for home appliances was the mainstream, the business was gradually expanding to the parts manufacturing for automobiles. The history of the automotive division was short, about fifteen years old. Ten years ago, when Suzuki joined the company, the scale was still small and there were only a hundred people in the entire division, with only one production plant in China.

Now that the Automotive Division alone generates sales of 200 billion yen ($2B), and overseas factories are expanding globally to Europe, North America, India and China. The sales volume of entire company including other business divisions also expanded to 1 trillion yen ($10B). It is rare for a recent Japanese company to expand so much, and he was an employee who works for a high-quality company from public point of view.

In addition, Suzuki is currently in the third year in Mexico, and has already been on elite course to experience two overseas plants, at the age of thirty-two, including two years of experience in China in the past. In fact, he could not refuse because of work, not the residence he wanted. Still, he did not dislike resident life itself. The fact that production engineers stays at overseas factories was, to put it simply, support for the production line. He was responsible for dealing with any on-site problems (quality problems, equipment problems). It is his job to handle those problems that occur in daily production lines, and nobody else can handle problems that he can not handle. No matter what happens, he can not escape from it. It is such a position.

Although he has heavy responsibility for his work, he has been working as an engineer for ten years since he joined the company, and has knowledge and experience with product structure, equipment specifications, production processes, and failure analysis. Sometimes he was called in the middle of the night, and often he did work even on holidays.

Nevertheless, there was the benefits of being able to work at the production site and stabilizing the private life by working overseas. The automotive division of K-Electric does not have a manufacturing plant in Japan, and all factories are overseas. Because of this, when a production engineer of the head office improves the production line or introduces a new production line, he has to travel abroad for several months.