Sr Chief Engineer – Surveillance Systems

Responsibilities

• Leadership
• Be a change leader.
• Show strong technical leadership skills with the ability to influence and obtain consensus with stakeholders across multiple disciplines.
• Have 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.
• Lead and collaborate with PAC members to identify and implement improvements and opportunities for growth.
• Ensure 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.
• 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.
• Transform for Speed – Ensure the most impactful, transformational speed and cost improvement ideas are being deployed on key projects.
• Lifecycle 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering or related fields.
• 15 years of 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.
• 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.