The last comment was spot on
What is the new program? Is it a long lasting project
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If it is a factory job, Honda would likely pay more with better benefits. If it is an engineering position, Urbana has been shedding engineering staff including designers with very little back fill other than some mechanical engineers which are being filled with new graduates. Design is essentially being moved to India with Urbana overseeing design. ISC has lost a good chunk of people as opportunities become available at other Dayton and Columbus area companies.
Until ALT shows stability and growth in Urbana, I would not believe it will happen. One big new program is in process, but management has made it clear they believe growth is in aftermarket retrofit with military being the focus. This is because the site is struggling to be comptetitive for new design.
Is it a terrible place? No. The people at the site are really pretty good including a lot of the management. The problem is they do not control their own destiny.....ALT does.
To the person who posted about Low Performers, get a grip! Honeywell ALT has forced site level directors to be the biggest butt kissers in order to save their job. If you believe when they say "my job is to protect the site", then you are a even a bigger fool!
Amen to that!
Low performers? Hardly. I've been a block 1 for the last 4 HPD reviews. You can think this is a board of the damned, but it's not. Its full of solid but disgruntled HON employees who are tired of getting the sht end of the stick while that fat goombah dave cote gets richer and richer.
This is tough to answer...Think about where you posted this question... You decide to come on a site set up for disgruntled low performers of Honeywell and ask if your wife should work at Honeywell.... Really? Seriously, think about it for a second. What answers do you expect? These people could get a 100K raise to watch tv at Honeywell and would complain they don't get more than two hours for lunch, have less than 1,000 channels, and their seat isn't genuine leather. Honeywell has some rough edges for sure! I could be first in line to complain. But employees that post here are too nervous to move and realize all companies have their struggles...WHY?.... Because they don't have the skills to move elsewhere and get another job and Honeywell will soon find out their lack of skills. I would react the same....
My first answer to you would be "please have your wife go work at Honda!". However, I am most likely going to buy a Honda this year and nervous that your efforts to research for information mirrors the household and will have impact on the next car I purchase.
I loved working in Urbana, Ohio. The people are as nice as they come. But I don't know that I would take a job there again, regardless of the company who extended an offer.
My two cents? Take yourself and the Mrs. and work in Columbus!
There are new products under developement even as we speak, and there are more on the horizon. Our margins are very high, and Honeywell acknowledges that Urbana is very profitable. Honeywell will most likely continue to invest more $ in Urbana. Hopefully the Enterprise restructuring will solve some of the many negatives of working for Honeywell.
With that being said...
Getting hired to work in the factory sems to be next to impossible. You have to start as a temp, which are very often discharged. Plus you have to put up with the BS of Honeywell. A bunch of morons run the company. If you work on the factory floor, then you're pretty much safe from RIFs and Furloughs (touch employees are exempt).
It is true that it is out in the middle of no where, but the cost of living is very low. So, your $ goes a lot further.
I've also heard a few negative comments form folks I know who work for Honda. So the grass is not alway greener.
Good luck with your descision.
To last poster. Are you sure they are closing that site? I notice there are no new products. Are u working in the floor or in office? Design etc?
They hire and then the rif will let go everyone they just hired, crazy, plus there is no growth in Honeywell. We can't compete with the other low cost LED providers, so Urbana, the old Grimes company, is about to be closed
"Urbana is where witness protection relocates people to. It's small town in the middle of nowhere"
I love that comment. I work there too the place has nothing to offer.
But they are in hiring mode over there
Loved the doofus comment. Much kinder word than I would have used. Thanks for the laugh.
Honeywell treats its employees worse than dirt, especially in the supply chain organization. I can attest to that. All comments below are true and I don't see any exaggerations. If you hear the name Honeywell, I recommend you run the other way as fast as you can.
Urbana is where witness protection relocates people to. It's small town in the middle of no where.
And don't work for honeywell anywhere!
Read through posts and you will get the best way for your wife.
Everyone is spot on. Even if she makes less at honda she will likely be much happier. Working at honeyhell is literally hell. It's just the fcking worst. She'll hate every day spent there just like us.
Stay away from Honeywell Urbana, it has been messed up since that doofus from Clearwater came up here three years ago and tried to fix things.
If your wife wants to live in constant fear of rifs, furlough, salary freeze, salary cuts, benefits reductions, premium increases, gender discrimination, lack of communication, reduced severance, etc., etc., then HW is the place she'd want to be!!
Take the Honda job. Do not try Honeywell, you do not get vacation (very subjective vacation policy) no merita increases or pay raises, no bonuses (or if they promise one, they change the rules every year), there is a hidden MRR process (secret old boys network that rates employees wihtout their knowledge and has quotas for who can and can't get high ratings. No flexible work schediules, no work from home, no work lif balance. No communication, so you can't help fix anything because they will not disclose what is wrong. No communication process up the chain to express issues. you work in a cubicle farm, spend your entiee life on a phone trippel booked with telecons all day long, you are not co-located with the people you work with or for sometimes. No one cares if you succeed or not, no one care if you are happy or not. No holiday parties, no get togethers, no comradery, no accountablility and no continuity. The entire company is process driven and process bogged down, nothgin but process roadblocks. She will be frutrate her entire time here. If you love her do not let her make this mistake.
RUNNNNN..................
Can't speak for Honda but if you're looking for a career full of let downs and disappointments Honeywell is the job for her!
Stupid?