As an Engineering Manager here at Honeywell Aerospace, you will play a crucial role in leading and managing a team of engineers to deliver high-quality products and solutions. Your expertise and leadership will be instrumental in developing and executing engineering strategies that drive business growth and meet customer requirements.
In this role, you will impact the delivery of high-quality products and solutions, foster a culture of innovation, and ensure that Honeywell remains a global technology leader, delivering solutions that improve the quality of life for people around the world.
At Honeywell, our people leaders play a critical role in developing and supporting our employees to help them perform at their best and drive change across the company. Help to build a strong, diverse team by recruiting talent, identifying and developing successors, driving retention and engagement, and fostering an inclusive culture.
Responsibilities- People & Organizational Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
- Establish clear expectations and strengthen technical and project leadership.
- Foster an inclusive culture and align workforce capabilities with business priorities.
- Engineering Execution: Oversee engineering project and program execution to meet technical, cost, schedule, milestone, and quality commitments.
- Establish disciplined practices for planning, estimating, scheduling, risk management, performance tracking, reviews, problem solving, and corrective action.
- Program & Business Partnership: Partner with Program Management, Chief Engineers, functional leaders, and stakeholders to align priorities and balance resources.
- Support planning, estimates, proposals, and forecasts.
- Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and recovery plans while driving accountability for engineering commitments.
- Technical Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Promote effective engineering processes, standards, and operating rhythms.
- Improve productivity, predictability, quality, and execution through best-practice sharing and lessons learned.
- Drive timely issue resolution and initiatives that reduce risk and strengthen organizational capability.
- Drive end to end ownership of product design responsibility through all phases of development.
YOU MUST HAVE
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Significant engineering experience in a complex product-development environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and/or complex technical programs.
- Strong understanding of engineering development processes, project planning, risk management, and product lifecycle execution.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
WE VALUE
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Product-development experience.
- Product knowledge specific to generators and auxiliary power units
- Significant experience in Project Engineering and Mechanical Systems, preferably Electro-Mechanical Systems.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary and/or geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Knowledge of project-management practices such as WBS, integrated schedules, cost estimation, risk management, and Earned Value Management (EVM).
- PMP Certification
- Demonstrated ability to develop technical talent and future leaders.
- Strong customer and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-changing environment.
- Accountability: Takes ownership of commitments, results, and organizational performance.
- People development: Builds capability through coaching, mentoring, and meaningful development opportunities.
- Execution discipline: Translates priorities into clear plans and drives them to closure.
- Customer focus: Understands technical decisions in the context of customer and program commitments.
- Collaboration: Builds alignment across engineering, program, and functional organizations.
- Strategic thinking: Balances immediate execution needs with longer-term capability development.
- Adaptability: Leads effectively through changing priorities, technical challenges, and program constraints.
- Critical Thinking: Enable/encourage team to challenge status quo.
Key Leadership Attributes
- Accountability: Takes ownership of commitments, results, and organizational performance.
- People development: Builds capability through coaching, mentoring, and meaningful development opportunities.
- Execution discipline: Translates priorities into clear plans and drives them to closure.
- Customer focus: Understands technical decisions in the context of customer and program commitments.
- Collaboration: Builds alignment across engineering, program, and functional organizations.
- Strategic thinking: Balances immediate execution needs with longer-term capability development.
- Adaptability: Leads effectively through changing priorities, technical challenges, and program constraints.
- Critical Thinking: Enable/encourage team to challenge status quo.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Significant engineering experience in a complex product-development environment
- Experience leading engineering teams and/or complex technical programs
- Strong understanding of engineering development processes, project planning, risk management, and product lifecycle execution
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field
- Product-development experience
- Product knowledge specific to generators and auxiliary power units
- Significant experience in Project Engineering and Mechanical Systems, preferably Electro-Mechanical Systems
- Experience managing multidisciplinary and/or geographically distributed engineering teams
- Knowledge of project-management practices including WBS, integrated schedules, cost estimation, risk management, and EVM
- PMP Certification
- Ability to develop technical talent and future leaders
- Strong customer and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-changing environment
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Aerospace Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by The Aerospace Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
The Aerospace Corporation Insights
What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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