Honeywell Aerospace’s advanced portfolio of aircraft surveillance technologies — including Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning Systems (EGPWS), Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS), Integrated Surveillance Systems, and Weather Radar Systems — represents the next generation of situational awareness solutions supporting safer and more efficient flight operations. These systems are designed to meet the needs of multiple aerospace market segments, including business aviation, UAS/UAM, commercial aviation, and military platforms. Honeywell Aerospace’s surveillance solutions are engineered to deliver the latest capabilities for proactive hazard awareness and improved decision-making. Collectively, these systems combine advanced sensing, processing, and data fusion technologies to provide pilots with comprehensive terrain awareness, real-time traffic avoidance, integrated surveillance information, and sophisticated weather detection for enhanced operational safety.
This role requires deep expertise in aerospace electronic technologies, combined with strong leadership capabilities to guide multidisciplinary engineering teams and align technical strategy with business objectives.
This role will work with the broader Honeywell Aerospace engineering organization, suppliers, customers, and regulatory agencies to ensure we leverage all our resources and talent to achieve world-class performance for surveillance products.
This position is part of a powerful, innovative, and agile team consistent with elements of the Honeywell Aerospace Chief Engineer Transformation Initiative. The position requires the Sr. Chief Engineer to partner with customers, leadership, and the broader engineering teams to ensure continuous business growth.
Responsibilities
Major job responsibilities include:
Leadership
- Be a change leader.
- Strong technical leadership skills with demonstrated ability to influence and obtain consensus with stakeholders across multiple disciplines.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface and influence executive level leadership.
- Guide effective deployment of improvement ideas. Champion improvements with project teams, identify and remove roadblocks.
- Share learnings and best practices with project teams and other Chief Engineers
- Design Authority (final accountability) for Surveillance systems and products.
- Function as a partner with the Offering Manager as the Chief Engineer and CTO for the business.
- Drive MOS to use the Chief Engineer/PAC Scorecard. The Chief leads and collaborates with PAC members to identify and implement improvements and opportunities for growth. The Chief ensures regular updates to scorecard ratings and improvement plans.
- Serve as an active member of the Product Action Committee (PAC)
- Function as a technical spokesperson with suppliers, customers, and regulatory authorities.
- Lead and advocate value-added process changes and improvements. Share lessons learned across business and projects.
- Participate in knowledge management and transfer including development of succession plan candidates.
- Provide training and mentoring to build capability and effectiveness of the broader engineering team.
- Review and approve processes/tools used in product design, analysis, and test.
- Lead the engineering & technology intellectual property plans.
- Experience leading Design Reviews
- Experience dealing with Honeywell Aerospace customers and suppliers for commercial and defense products and services.
- Experience collaborating with personnel at other Honeywell Aerospace sites foreign and domestic.
- Experience with Honeywell Aerospace internal processes (IPDS, IRB, SARB, MRB, DREA)
Product Strategy
- Drive concept development and ideation for Break Through Initiatives (BTI).
- Promote and influence NPD Transformation for Speed
- Identify the most impactful, transformational improvement ideas.
- Influence product development maturity and growth using criteria of the New Product Reinvention Scorecard. Ensure recurring and service revenue opportunities are identified and implemented. Ensure that connected, intelligent, and autonomous product architectures are identified and implemented.
- Review and analyze Voice of the Customer (VOC) and Competitive Intelligence (CI) data to drive technical strategies and product plans.
- Provide oversight and guidance to Advanced Technology in defining technologies and products to address customer needs, competitive challenges, or disruptors.
- Ensure the strategies of the technology and Product Roadmaps are aligned with growth plans across the entire product life cycle.
- Support development of product design requirements, qualifications, and certification strategies, including review and approval of required documentation (FAA, TSO, EASA, Mil-Qual, etc.).
Pursuit Strategy
- Guide, review, and approve technical concepts.
- Provide leadership for trade study activities to identify optimum solutions for Honeywell Aerospace’s Surveillance product lines.
- Ensure compliance with customer and business requirements including alignment with the technical strategy.
- Review and approve the program plan, SOW, and ensure the scope is well-defined and complete.
- Review and approve the Quote Estimate (QE) and technical Basis of Estimate (BOE) for proposals, including reuse applications.
Program Execution
- Participate in program management reviews and engage with suppliers and customers to drive action plans and closure on critical issues.
- Accountable for success of development programs with responsibility and authority to drive actions needed to ensure success.
- Ensure critical technical, business and programming issues have effective risk mitigation plans.
- Participate in and approve project phase gate exit reviews for new development programs.
- Ensure appropriate plans are in place to meet key requirements, including Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY), Design-To Cost (DTC) and quality.
- Ensure compliance with customer specifications and/or regulatory authority requirements.
- Provide technical oversight/approval of internal and external design reviews and ensure appropriate level of design reviews are conducted (TCR, PDR, CDR, etc.).
- New Product Development (NPD) - Guide effective deployment of improvement ideas. Champion improvements with project teams, identify and remove roadblocks.
- Transformation for Speed – Ensure the most impactful, transformational speed and cost improvement ideas are being deployed on key projects.
Life-Cycle Ownership
- Experience in leading teams in successful Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations of field and production issues.
- Responsible for resolution of critical and systemic in-service and delivery issues and serves as a member of the Safety Review Board (SRB) with authority to drive necessary actions and issues to closure.
- Conduct safety assessments and closure of Product Condition Reports (PCRs) and safety issues in conjunction with Product Integrity.
US PERSON REQUIREMENT
- Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.
YOU MUST HAVE
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering or related fields
- 15 years-experience in design and support of avionics products including requirements development, design, product development, testing, qualification, validation and verification, technology validation for new product introduction and field issue resolution.
WE VALUE
- Advanced Degree in Engineering
- Experience or training received in the following:
- Experience and interaction with Part23 and Part 25 aircraft manufacturers
- ARP 4754 systems development
- Do-178 software development
- Do-260 Hardware development
- Managing Relationships
- Leadership Skills
- Program Management or Project Engineering experience.
About us:
Join a company that's reintroducing itself to the aviation community we've helped advance for more than a century. At Honeywell Aerospace (NASDAQ: HONA), we're launching as an independent, publicly traded aerospace and defense company built on a legacy of operational excellence and mission-focused execution.
Our new brand identity pairs that heritage with real momentum, as we build technology that helps pilots navigate with confidence, aircraft operate more efficiently, and operators stay ahead of change. With our systems on board 90% of the world's aircraft, your work here has reach that's rare to find anywhere else.
Focusing on our customers, investing in innovation, and building a culture of accountability and performance is how we're shaping what comes next.
Every horizon. Every mission. Every day.
Benefits:
Beyond a performance-driven salary, you'll work alongside dedicated experts on technology that's advancing aviation. As a Honeywell Aerospace employee, you're eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program and educational assistance
- Parental leave and 12 paid holidays
- Paid time off for vacation, personal and sick time
Explore your benefits: https://honeywellaerospacebenefits.com/
POSTING TIMELINE
The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Skills Required
- U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee/asylee or ability to obtain export authorization)
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering or related field
- 15 years experience in design and support of avionics products including requirements development, design, product development, testing, qualification, validation and verification, technology validation for new product introduction and field issue resolution
- Strong technical leadership and stakeholder influence across multiple disciplines
- Experience leading design reviews (TCR, PDR, CDR) and serving as design authority
- Experience interacting with Part 23 and Part 25 aircraft manufacturers
- Experience with ARP4754 systems development, DO-178 software development, DO-260 hardware development, and certification (FAA, TSO, EASA, Mil-Qual)
- Advanced degree in engineering
- Program management or project engineering experience
- Experience with Honeywell Aerospace processes and cross-site collaboration (IPDS, IRB, SARB, MRB, DREA)
- Experience leading root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations and resolving in-service/production issues
- Experience dealing with aerospace customers and suppliers for commercial and defense products
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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