Honeywell Aerospace Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

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

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

Flexible work schedule, opportunities for upward mobility.

Cons

Very bureaucratic, often employees mean nothing to the company on an individual level.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a stronger stance against HR to provide reasonable compensation levels.

Pros

Job security, growing market share in aerospace products, good management, decent work hours and time off, and good opportunity for career growth.

Cons

Its a 24/7 operation and you have to work some weekends and holidays, long hours during the week, and unrealistic turn time and delivery goals.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide clear, concise direction on what you want done and set a completion date, make all supervisors perform at the same level and be involved in what the hourly employees are doing. Get up from your desk and walk the floor.

Pros

The people are great. The job is very secure.

Cons

Honeywell lacks competitive compensation for many employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize and pay your people competitively and Fairly.

Pros

The opportunity to learn and grow.

Cons

There is extreme pressure to do more with less and although a good ideal, it has gone too far.

Pros

Honeywell Aerospace has a great team and employees. The company is working at great standards and practices. They helped my career grow

Cons

Too much politics. It was really hard to get upper management support on new initiatives. The approval process for many tasks are too bureocratic.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to listen more to your employees and to new ideas. You need to streamline processes to make work more effective.

Pros

Fortune 500 company which brings some significant intangibles. Impressive group of knowledgeable professionals both new and seasoned. Great resources for aerospace business intelligence.

Great place for individuals who do not know what they want to do for a career. They are opportunities to work on projects or in positions that has little to nothing with your experience entering Honeywell. Due to the frequency of new initiatives coming from management to tweet quarterly and annual performance of this publicly traded company, there is always a call for employee leadership to work additional hours to support these initiative.

Cons

Absolutely no long term strategy period. Strategy is a series of short term, popular initiatives hastily implement to address near term annual operating plan (AOP) with no regards to risk management and future accountability. New initiatives some times contradict the earned value gained in previous AOP.

Extremely limited intra company networking and professional collaboration. Goals and initiative do not appear harmonized across function departments. The majority of initiatives fail due to this trait that leads to finger pointing and blame. The dis-hearting aspect to this is most season managers KNOW this and can predict future failure modes with surprising accuracy. Middle management appears to fear the political environment even if they admit to each other the initiative have a low probability of effectiveness or survival.

Related to the Pros comment above, employee leadership comes with significant risks. Once you take on a challenge or opportunity, you will have a difficult time divesting this responsibility. "I don't know" appears to work well at Honeywell. Thus, you will be pulled into urgent meetings to deliver urgent reports several jobs/roles ago.

MANAGE YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS WISELY. Political affiliations render ALL other factors to promotion and other success criteria meaningless.

Advice to Senior Management

I really do not have any feedback for management. It appears that they have created the company culture and environment they want. It is up to the employee to adjust and decide if they want to work in this environment.

Tim Mahoney was a great choice for president. I am eager to observe his tenure over time.