Just welcomed a former coworker from Honeywell to my new team. They said there was just no work and that they only knew of one new product under development anywhere in aerospace. Make the jump there is plenty of work at better employers. Honeywell is paying new hires way way more than they are paying you even after you have put in five years without any chance of jumping to a band 3 or 4 position. Only regret is I didn’t slack and get the severance.
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Not really a ghost town,
as much as na episode of Walking Dead
ethics
Redmond might be good location to be looking. Phoenix not so much?
Who said back in 2005'ish that Honeywell was not going to grow the Aerospace business in the U.S. Was it Bob Johnson or Rob Gillette? IMO, Honeywell has been milking the Aerospace cow ever since then. No new product development just riding out or updating the old stuff. Penang is the new factory for their products. Where possible, EM's and CM's control that flow.
this is axr...
Currently there IS new product development IN the US.
Nothing much on the horizon though. M&PM needs to get it into high gear. Plus mother HON needs to pony up on the funding of NPD. Both are laughable unfortunately.
This is op— Redmond was my site.
I’m at at name you would recognize. Seems rude to post it.
It is going to be a software company, right ?
When I left , any design work was going to be done outside the US.
There is new product being developed in our enterprise. The issue is we’ve lost at least 1/3 of our Engineers and support staff over the past 5 years without any replacements. None were laid off. Just a bunch of super early retirements and other opportunities.
Sad state of affairs...
OP, your post implies you are ex-Hon. Curious where you are located, and if you can hint about where you're at now. You most likely know about RMU COE that takes legacy products and updates and resells. Replating the gold plated turd, basically.
There may be no new product development in Aerospace but they probably have plenty of obsolescence programs. I don't work there anymore but I would assume this is the case since they can't stop making hardware. New product development is rare and is usually a re-hash of an older product anyway.
Obsolescence can be extremely challenging since they change layout software over time and boards need to be completely redone. So challenging (with all the good Engineers gone) that Engineers/Managers would rather leave the company than be stuck with a redesign that gets bogged down in qualification testing for a year (due to inexperienced Engineers doing the redesign.)
They’ve resorted to bringing in “The Red Cross” which Honeywell sells employee blood to. Free cash flowing from your veins!