The Role
This role involves leading a global engineering team to execute value engineering and cost-out initiatives, ensuring high-quality project delivery and developing technical capability within the team.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking an Sr. Advance System Engineer – VE/CE Projects to provide technical, functional, and executing value engineering, component engineering, and cost‑out initiatives.
This role has end‑to‑end ownership for VE/CE strategy execution, project prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and talent development, while ensuring delivery of measurable productivity, margin, and design‑to‑cost outcomes across product portfolios.
Responsibilities- Lead and manage a Global VE/CE engineering team, providing technical direction, coaching, and performance management.
- Own VE/CE delivery for assigned product lines, with accountability for cost‑out pipeline creation, prioritization, and execution of Process Automation
- Ownership to deliver technically correct solutions based on project Specifications, RFQ, Architecture, etc.
- To develop Typical / Templates for Complex Loops and develop project specific standards
- To read, understand P&IDs, Control Narratives, Logic diagrams, etc
- Drive structured value engineering methodologies, including function analysis, should‑costing, teardown analysis, and design‑to‑cost.
- Partner closely with Product Engineering, and Project Engineering teams of PA, Program Management, Sourcing, and Procurement to identify and realize VE/CE opportunities.
- Provide technical governance and decision authority for VE/CE design changes in electro‑mechanical systems used in Process Automation business
- Establish and deploy common VE/CE processes, metrics, and best practices across the PA VE/CE COE – project engineering.
- Lead and facilitate VE/CE workshops, ideation sessions, and kaizen events to build a sustainable project pipeline.
- Ensure on‑time, high‑quality delivery of VE/CE projects; proactively communicate risks, issues, and mitigation plans to senior leadership.
- Support manufacturing readiness, supplier engagement, and part qualification activities resulting from VE/CE changes.
- Develop technical capability and domain expertise within the team through structured training, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to global strategy discussions for productivity, margin expansion, and cost discipline initiatives.
You Must Have
- B.E / B.Tech in Electronic Instrumentation or Electronics or Control & Engineering
- 12 to 15+ years of experience in Control and Automation Project and Control product design, development, and engineering like DCS / Safety PLC / PLC (preferably on Honeywell Systems) – Design, Detail engineering, Integration of Hardware, FAT with customers at factory
- Exposure if third party systems interface – Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, OPC (UA, DA, HDA, A&E), ProfiNet, HART, Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus
- Advanced L2/L3 nodes – Alarm, History, Asset, Network Management
- Networking Knowledge: TCP/IP protocols, Switch/Router and domain controller configurations.
- Virtualization of control nodes – added advantage
- Ability to influence engineering, sourcing, operations, and leadership teams globally
- Strong ownership mindset with bias for action and results
Skills Required
- B.E/B.Tech in Electronic Instrumentation or Electronics or Control & Engineering
- 12 to 15+ years of experience in Control and Automation Project and Control product design, development, and engineering
- Experience with third party systems interface such as Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, OPC, ProfiNet, HART
- Knowledge of TCP/IP protocols and Switch/Router configurations
- Strong ownership mindset with bias for action and results
Honeywell Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Honeywell and has not been reviewed or approved by Honeywell.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans feature a notably strong company 401(k) match with vesting after three years, enhancing long-term savings security. Additional tax-advantaged accounts and company contributions for eligible earners further strengthen financial preparedness.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off policies include flexible or unlimited vacation for many salaried roles and a broad observed-holiday schedule, providing manager-approved flexibility. This structure supports rest and work-life balance across varied needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave offers paid time for birth, adoption, or foster care that can be taken consecutively or intermittently. The design enables practical flexibility in how family leave is used.
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What We Do
Honeywell is a Fortune 500 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 110,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.
