Honeywell Aerospace Reviews

Pros

Exciting products. Dedicated employees willing to go the extra mile. Respected standing in the aerospace community. Good selection of markets in which to participate.

Cons

U.S. based employees are no longer a valued asset. The goal seems to be to eliminate all U.S. positions. Shareholders have the largest share of the pie in terms of stakeholders and employees are constantly asked to sacrifice in order to propel share holders profits.

Advice to Senior Management

The boat seems like it is sailing properly, but you have allowed the hull to rot. Constantly removing benefits and locations from U.S. based employees will eventually result in the sinking of the boat.

Pros

Engineering Middle management cares about people and is trying to get the job done.

Cons

Reorganization into functional silos five years ago was disastrous and further injury was done by a somewhat late move into global markets. Expertise in the US now tries to get work done by pulling the puppet strings of emerging market workforce. Huge amount of bureaucracy created to try and "fix" / prevent project failures stemming from communication gaps between US and emerging markets.

Advice to Senior Management

VP's & Directors. Stop asking US managers to report results for their emerging market puppets. EM team will never be capable until they are allowed to fail or succeed on stage in front of the customer.

Pros

-Leadership and autonomy is rewarded
-good work is recognized
-There can be some interesting problems to solve

Cons

-Management at times will implement lean manufacturing processes that won't work in this low quantity work environment
-Nothing too technically advanced being done
-benefits have been declining and job security is not high due to nature of the industry
-outsourcing causes a lot of manufacturing problems
-once in manufacturing engineering it is difficult to move into design

Advice to Senior Management

Don't buy into fads like outsourcing and *some* lean manufacturing tools. Allow better lateral movement throughout the company.

Pros

Good Management Support of personnel.

Cons

Challenging market space for several years

Pros

The people are great. Familey like atmosphere

Cons

they did not offer enough overtime.

Pros

Immense opportunities to work and learn in different domains

Cons

This would be a niche technology, which restricts your opportunity to work on other domain

Advice to Senior Management

Need to work on building domain knowledge of employees at each level

Pros

Great front line managers. Good work/family balance.

Cons

Too many bureaucratic "initiatives" which don't add value and detract from productivity, running way too lean on resources, high stress level, massive global outsourcing adds huge inefficiencies which saves the corporation money but ends up losing customers and extracting capital and knowledge base from the US. Revolving door upper management who are only driven by their 8 quarters of bonuses before they move on.

Advice to Senior Management

Please keep getting rid of your good performers and enrich yourself as fast as possible. The sooner you run the business into the ground, the sooner it might rebuild itself.

Pros

Good people, good benefits
Customer focused approach to business
Good development program for early career employees
Plants located world wide

Cons

Trying to emulate an automotive organizational model without mature systems or processes
Trying to manage big company bureaucracy with small company staffing levels
Cycles of layoffs / reductions

Pros

Excellence in engineering core competency makes it a pleasure to work along side such great engineers each day. Technology and products are very complex, challenging even the best each day.

Cons

Honeywell needs to end the Performance Improvement Plan nine block assessment, unless it is really justified. Too many great engineers are rated in ouside L that is unwarrented. The GE model of 10 percent in bottom L just does not fit this organization.

Advice to Senior Management

De-emphasize the nine block PIP and instead emphasize engineering excellence. Honeywell has a gold mine of great engineers. We need the culture to align with excellence in engineering.

Pros

When the economy is great, the pay is good. Outside of the pay, I can't think of one other reason that I don't go running out of my office towards sanity.

Cons

Management rewards the two faced workers, leaders promoted by the clueless, senior employees working only for retirement. Many of the non American managers have no skills in leading others and only work towards their own advancement. Jobs being sent out the USA in the thousands.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop and listen to more than those that are clearly clueless. Make the sites responsible for profit and loss. Reward true performance. Get rid of non American managers in the US who clearly don't understand the American workforce.