The purpose of Global VE/CE Projects Engineering Director role is to lead the VE/CE GPE team, working in various engineering disciplines like  HPS, HBS and UOP. The VE/CE Projects Director will drive key metrics of VE/CE inside the Projects business across GBEs, creating and managing productivity projects.

Education Required

• Degree in engineering
• Instrumentation and Control or equivalent
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified will be added advantage.

Work Experience Required

15 plus years of experience as a program  manager / operations manager. Should have worked as engineer / lead engineer for hands on experience, special focus in activities related to Project Engineering

Experience essential in

• Leading a diverse team spread across different poles
• Design, engineering, and deployment activities for project engineering
• Customer interfacing, project management and resource management
• Operations management for achieving the business results
• Experience working in a large multinational organization in a highly matrix environment
• Experience working in environments with focus on driving cost optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate engineer or other disciplines with an understanding of running a global organization.
• Effective technical communication skills
• Good organizational skills

Behavioral Competencies Required

• Excellent communication skills – must be able to operate across country and cultural boundaries
• Should be able to demonstrate all Honeywell behaviours, specifically Act with Urgency, Think big and make it happen, Be courageous and inspire greatness

Language Requirements

Must be able to effectively communicate in English

Principal Responsibilities

 The principal responsibility is to drive engineering productivity in the Projects Business by contributing in the following areas:

• Share  a vision, mission and charter for the VE/CE GPE team.
• Keep very high employee motivation to deliver on quality and schedule for all assignments. Drive employee engagement and keep attrition under control for key positions.
• Drive standard HR Processes like HPD, succession planning, performance driven differentiation
• Effective employee communication through skip level meetings, townhalls, focus group communications etc.,
• Drive talent acquisition with staffing function and maintain skills and competencies of the team in line with LOB requirements
• Collaborate with current Projects teams in HPS, HBS and UOP, to identify and execute VE/CE Productivity projects, and track them in CORA system.
• Explode all VE/CE Playbook and Policies for the Projects Business
• Engage with Global GPE teams across the GBEs and Regions.
• Work with global LOB front offices to maximize GPE content and maintain effective communication with Global LOBs
• Demonstrate global mindset by working in a One VE/CE COE and OneGPE environment
• Drive continuous improvements projects for productivity and initiate and lead Kaizen workshops, Kaizen events, to generate VE/CE opportunities inside the Projects business

Principal Networks & Contact Links

• HTCS GPE Leader, HPS GPE Leader, HBS  GPE Leader, UOP GPE Leader, all VE/CE leaders for Projects (HPS and HBS)
• Global, pole level and regional operations team of all LOBs.
• Biz ops leadership team

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Ability to manage a team of VE/CE Projects Engineers to lead and drive VE/CE Projects in the Projects Business and adherence to schedules
• Ability to interact with the Global engineering team and get the back office and front office work efficiently to achieve business results

Geographic Scope & Travel Requirements

The position is based out of Pune , and will require travel to other office in Europe, US  and other geographies as required