Sr Advanced Project Engr

Honeywell Industrial Automation is seeking a highly accomplished Sr. Advanced Project Engineer to lead strategic product development and technology initiatives within the Smart Energy business.

This role is responsible for driving complex, global programs that accelerate innovation, enable business growth, and deliver differentiated customer value across Industrial Automation and Smart Energy portfolios. The successful candidate will serve as a key leader across engineering, product management, operations, manufacturing, and commercial organizations, ensuring alignment between business objectives, customer needs, and execution strategies.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with exceptional program leadership capabilities and possesses the ability to drive decisions through systems thinking, customer-centric innovation, and cross-functional influence. This individual thrives in dynamic environments and has demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams within Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe®) organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of strategic product development programs from concept through commercialization, ensuring delivery of business, customer, and technology objectives.
• Drive New Product Introduction (NPI), portfolio expansion, technology transformation, product sustainment, and productivity initiatives across global organizations.
• Develop and execute program strategies that align technical roadmaps with business priorities and market opportunities.
• Apply Systems Thinking to assess end-to-end impacts across products, technologies, customers, organizations, and operational processes.
• Leverage Design Thinking methodologies to translate customer insights into innovative and scalable solutions.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Commercial teams to accelerate decision-making and execution.
• Lead executive-level program reviews, business updates, risk management activities, and milestone governance processes.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical, operational, financial, and organizational risks.
• Build alignment and influence stakeholders across a global matrix organization to achieve common business objectives.
• Enable organizational agility through effective participation in Agile and SAFe development processes.
• Champion operational excellence, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer focus.

Qualifications

MUST HAVE

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience leading complex engineering programs involving hardware, firmware, software, connected products, or industrial automation solutions.
• Proven experience managing cross-functional product development initiatives in a global environment.
• Strong understanding of New Product Introduction (NPI) and product lifecycle management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution across multiple stakeholders, functions, and business priorities.
• Experience operating within Agile development environments.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced English communication skills.

WE VALUE

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Systems Engineering, or Project Management.
• Strong expertise in Systems Thinking and the ability to connect customer, business, and technical ecosystems.
• Experience applying Design Thinking frameworks to solve complex customer and business challenges.
• Experience working within Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe®) organizations.
• Participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and cross-functional release planning activities.
• Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification highly desirable.
• SAFe®, Agile, Scrum Master, Product Owner, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certifications.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience in Industrial Automation, Smart Energy, Smart Grid, Metering, IoT, Connected Products, or Digital Transformation.
• Strong business acumen with experience balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, schedule, cost, and risk.
• Demonstrated success influencing executive stakeholders and driving decisions without direct authority.
• Experience leading global teams through ambiguity, change, and organizational transformation.

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About Us

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.