Sr Advanced Project Engr

Honeywell Technologies is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with products and services based on control technologies for buildings and industry. A global technology leader based in USA, Honeywell Technologies shares are traded on the New York, London, and Chicago Stock Exchanges. Our quality products, integrated system solutions, and services make life safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive in every corner of our world.

Sr Advanced Project Engr (Program Manager)

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for managing multidisciplinary product delivery and program execution from inception to successful Business-Case realization.

Takes a General Manager’s view to the program assuming ownership across multiple functions and phases of the NPI process, including but not restricted to:

Business Case & Concept Development: Drives focus on voice of customer, offering-scope and business case, influencing decisions in the initial phases.

Detailed Planning: Drives the translation of business case / concept into plans with deliverables across engineering and other functions. Performs estimation, balances technical risks / dependencies, and manages costs, resources, vendors, etc. during the detailed planning phase

Playing a consultative role to help put in place the appropriate people, technology, processes, and tools. Coaching members of the team as needed to optimize the efficiency of the project team.

Execution & Delivery: Uses a Line-management focus to drive the right engineering results, and achieve readiness for commercial launch, with the right metrics and tools that provide high predictability and quality to stakeholders and senior execs alike.

Risk Management: On time identification of risks along with mitigation, contingency. Regular tracking and management of risks.

Launch & Go-live: Oversees Marketing Communications, Demand generation, Revenue generation & tracking during and after the Launch. Works with Product Management, Business & Finance to measure outcomes against goals and Critical Targets to meet.

Budget management: Able to understand the Finance reports, analysis and take appropriate actions

Transformation to Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, and standardization of practices with appropriate tools / dashboards / metrics (effort, schedule, cost, revenue, defects)

Positive Revenue impact to top line of the business group through New product, Product Sustenance and Enablement

Schedule, Cost, and Effort Compliance: Phase gate compliance, revenue Say / Do, and continuous improvement of cycle time

Skills

Business and Financial Acumen

Thoroughly understands markets, finance and business needs. Can work with Engineering and Business leaders to drive Make-vs-Buy decisions to optimize the ROI and time to market.

Technical

Solid understanding of engineering (Software, Electrical, Mechanical) life cycle models. Exposure to Cloud, IOT, Data analytics, UI Technologies, Embedded Firmware. Control Systems domain knowledge preferable

Vendor Management: Effectively builds partnering relationships with 3rd party ODMs/OEMs, Vendor evaluation, interface and management where required

Negotiation, Stakeholder Management: Proficient in negotiation and influencing in a global setup; presents the problem and solution eloquently to help arrive at stakeholder consensus

Agile

Expert on Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum / SAFe), CI/CD, DevOps; catalyst in transforming organizational culture to bring in agility & predictability in delivery

Influencing

• Great communicator, ability to influence teams, orienting them to be self-performing, and deliver exceptional business value
• Project Management: Plans and executes with project management principles / practices; drives estimation, dependencies, milestones and integration goals
• Problem Solving: Follows a structured problem solving approach; demonstrates agility and alacrity in execution and decisions
• AI Knowledge: Exposure to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot), and application of AI in product development, program management, or business process optimization

Qualifications & Experience

Graduate in Engineering, or Masters in Math / Science / Computers, with 10-15 Yrs. of experience 4 – 8 yrs in product program management.

Must

• Hands-on exposure to Multi-disciplinary (H/w, S/w, F/w, mechanical) programs
• Experience in program execution with Agile CI / CD. Exposure to roles such as Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer / Release Train Manager preferred.
• Exposure to tools such as Jira / Rally or equivalent, Microsoft Project, Configuration Management, CI, CD , Visio, and all Office Tools
• Experience in managing culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams.
• Proven track record of managing complex program and product deliveries creating incremental revenue impact as per the business-case
• Desired Certifications: PMP / IPMA / PRINCE / PMI-ACP / CSM / CSPO