Chief Engineer - Electric Power Control Systems
About the role
The future is what you make it. When you join Honeywell Aerosapace, you become a member of our global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who make the things that make the future. This position is for a System Chief Engineer for Electric Power Products.
Responsibilities
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 in matters related to Electric Power, 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 Electric Power products, functions as a partner with the Offering Manager as the Chief Engineer and CTO for the Electric Power business, drives MOS to utilize Chief Engineer/PAC Scorecard, chief leads and collaborates with PAC members to identify and implement improvements and opportunities for growth, chief ensures regular updates to scorecard ratings and improvement plans, serves as an active member of the Product Action Committee (PAC), functions 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 Electric Power engineering team, approve of processes/tools used in product design, analysis, and test, lead engineering & technology intellectual property plan for Electric Power products, experience leading Design Reviews, experience dealing with Honeywell Aerospace customers and suppliers for commercial and defense products and services, experience working 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, connected, intelligent, and autonomous product architectures are identified and implemented, opportunities to leverage data extracted from in-service products are identified and implemented, reviews and analyzes Voice of the Customer (VOC) and Competitive Intelligence (CI) data to drive technical strategies and product plans, provides oversight and guidance to Advanced Technology in defining technologies and products to address customer needs, competitive challenges, or disruptors, ensures the strategies of the technology and Product Roadmaps are synchronized engine and systems growth plans across the entire product life cycle, supports development of product design requirements, qualification, and certification strategies, including review and approval of required documentation (FAA, EASA, Mil-Qual, etc.)
Pursuit Strategy: Guides, reviews, and approves technical concepts, participates in program management reviews and engages 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, ensures critical technical, business and program issues have effective risk mitigation plans, participates in and approves project phase gate exit reviews for new development programs, ensures appropriate plans are in place to meet key requirements, including Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY), Design-To Cost (DTC) and quality, ensures compliance with customer specifications and/or regulatory authority requirements, provides technical oversight/approval of internal and external design reviews and ensures 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, conducts safety assessments and closure of Product Condition Reports (PCRs) and safety issues in conjunction with Product Integrity
People Development: Use of Associate Chief Engineer Mentoring potential successors and non-successors through formal, informal and OJT, provide training and mentoring to enhance team capability, succession plan in place - top and ready now candidates identified, identify opportunities for group training & knowledge transfer (TEAMS, KCaT, Lunch & Learn, etc.), define knowledge capture needs, process, and lessons learned, create and maintain an archive of relevant training materials, transformation - be a change leader, champion the just cause, take intelligent risks, join the guiding coalition, build team trust, demonstrate the culture, identify the most impactful, transformational improvement ideas, challenge the status quo, push beyond norms, challenge requirements (including customers), focus on most impactful few improvement ideas, drive broad applicability of ideas, champion driving improvement ideas into the project, optimizing them, and gathering learnings, guide effective deployment of improvement ideas, champion improvements with project teams, identify and remove roadblocks, share learnings with Workstream teams and other Chief Engineers
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
10 years of experience in design and support of power electronics and associated controls systems, requirements development, design, product development, testing, qualification, validation and verification, technology validation for new product introduction and field issue resolution of Electric Power systems
Experience or training received in the following: Power Electronics, Thermal Integration, Electro-Magnetic Compatibility principles, Hardware and Software Development (DO-254 and DO-178), ARP-4754 & ARP4761 Fundamentals, Field Orientated Motor Controls principles, Aircraft Power Quality (MIL-STD-704, MIL-PRF-21480), Vapor Cycle System working principles, Wound Field Generator working principles