Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – Opportunity to participate in the challenge to grow in mature markets with inflationary pressures. Flat and lean organization pushes to perform with visibility at the highest levels.

Cons – Not the greatest magnet for investment $$ within the HONEYWELL family. It is the smallest piece of HONEYWELL pie with a large portion of its assets in high-$$ manufacturing locations of the world. Its global footprint is growing from a low base.

Advice to Senior Management – Drive execution on large projects including acquisition to build credibility for future investments.

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – there is a low probability of bankruptcy

Cons – Average annual salary adjustments fall below inflation.
At risk (bonus) `pay is arbitrarily adjusted downward.

Advice to Senior Management – Your direct reports may not be the best information source on the state of the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – There are many options for career development.

Cons – It can be easy to get lost in such a large organization.

Advice to Senior Management – Remember that it is not just about the bottoms line. Employees are people, and their lives and job satisifaction are important as well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – Strong talent in the company
Many opportunities for career growth
People work well together and value each other - comraderie is very strong at the business level
Career growth support is very strong; good succession planning opportunities
Alot of people who have left HON are in high positions in other companies
Committed to university recruiting from strong schools
Strong international business opportunities

Cons – Doesn't necessary fit into the overall Honeywell plan
Support can be very situational
Employee morale is waning - people are tiring of the work/life balance
Sometimes promote young bright people who are not ready for the key business leadership
Some of the businesses deal with highly hazardous chemicals that are difficult to manufacture

Advice to Senior Management – Value your employees who have contributed in the past
Develop you people and hold onto them
Look for ways to pick up the morale

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – If you have allied signal retirement it's OK. If you have Honeywell retirement don't plan on retiring. They try and make you think the benefits are good but they are just average

Cons – this company is just a revolving door for employees. I have seen more employees quit here in the last ten years than most companies probaly hire in twenty.

Advice to Senior Management – Ask employees why they all have bad attitudes. Why is everybody looking for a new job. they need to start giving a bonus or profit sharing to all employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – If you want to surround yourself with smart people and competent management while working for a company with good family values, you might be interested to apply here. The company is big enough that there are plenty of opportunities to move around to different technologies, though you may have to be your own driver. Technical people can grow well here, as there are opportunities for promotions strictly within the technical ladder. If you can do your job and you perform well, people will notice you here. Depending on your group, management can be flexible to very flexible with personal issues requiring telecommuting or going into work late.

Cons – Average compensation, above average benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Keep employee morale high. The company is growing, but it should not be at the expense of employee satisfaction.

Current Employee – been working at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – I am fortunate enough to be working mostly with great people who believe in team work in spite of a suborganization that is dysfunctional at times. This must be my luck because I see a lot of others struggling in the dysfunction.

Cons – My beef is mostly with local leadership.
Local leadersship not leading effectively but trying to manage their political skin. Lacks direction and oversight.
Salary increases seem low and not based on merit.
Talent recognition and retention very subjective and haphazard
Work gets piled on those who perfrom. Dead wood gets a free ride.
On the corporate level, Benefits have been cut.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring back the benefits--don't be too greedy.... Or watch the exodus as soon as the economy improves.
Objective talent retention program

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – Smart hardworking people dedicated to business

Cons – Benefits and Environment need improvement

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – You will be able to say you worked for a Fortune 100 company. You will earn an average salary. You will learn what it is like to work for a large organization.

Cons – You will struggle with cumbersome business systems that are poorly supported. You will work in plants that are poorly maintained. Safety and environmental excellence are given lip service but minimal funding. Honeywell's safety and environmental programs are paper heavy and ineffective, kind of like BP's emergency plan for their deep water rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Their HS&E programs are digital equivalents to three ring binders full of paper that no one updates, looks at or trains on. Management will ask you to certify you comply with all safety, environmental regulations and that you are up to date on all relevant training but you will work at a facility with no trainers or HR people. You will be punished if you bring safety or environmental items that cost money to fix to you bosses attention . Safety and environmental departments will be understaffed or frequently those areas will be an ancillary responsibility of someone with a different full time job. Their corporate safety and environmental departments are pretty much there to give upper management plausible deniability and direct blame to low level managers.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop worrying about the next quarters net income long enough to clean up your facilities. Hire a sufficient number of safety and environmental engineers and trainers and fund the programs. The HR, training, purchasing and account receivable staffs (among others) have been replaced by computer programs requiring individual employees to basically perform all those functions for themselves therefore you should at least have sufficient IT resources to support the software packages you use. Even then your minimalistic staffing philosophy with a management base with high turn over is no way to operate chemical plants that produce, store and ship highly hazardous materials often in urban environments.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies

Pros – Honeywell was very established with the goals and objectives they'd strive to achieve. A very structured organization along with excellent benefits.

Cons – The downside while working for Honeywell was the ongoing operational changes which lead to morale issues and lack of confidence held by the production workers.

Advice to Senior Management – As stated, the overall goals and objectives were clearly defined from a corporate standpoint. The advice I'd give would be to research or determine whether or not those objectives are achievable within every business unit.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend