Manufacturing in Transportation Systems

Career

A career in Manufacturing at Honeywell is much more than just making products. Honeywell looks at Manufacturing as one of four critical components within our Integrated Supply Chain. The Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) encompasses all product-related activities from the time a customer places an order to the time they receive it. Four principles — plan, source, make, and deliver — support the ISC function. To gain a true understanding of manufacturing at Honeywell, you need to understand how the four principles work together. Manufacturing careers at Honeywell also encourages ISC employees to communicate, collaborate, and use Six Sigma and Lean principles to ensure that our products are made correctly and efficiently, and are delivered to our customers on time, every time.

Manufacturing careers at Honeywell allow and encourage employees to experience all four principles of ISC in order to hone all of the critical skills required for manufacturing leaders.

Career Focus

A focus within our Transportation System's Turbo Technologies (HTT) in Manufacturing offers a global experience. With 15 locations that span the globe, regardless of product or process manufacturing, HTT moves seamlessly from country to country. With business segments spanning the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe, HTT Manufacturing relies on the sharing of best practices to meet and exceed customer demands. Honeywell Turbo Technologies is recognized around the world as the maker of Garrett® turbochargers and thermal systems for passenger car and commercial diesel applications. The company has more than 6,000 employees and serves the leading global engine and vehicle manufacturers.

The automotive industry in general has always valued quality manufacturing, and the same is true in HTT. With a mission of being the premier provider of intelligent solutions for engine performance enhancement and emissions reduction, operational excellence is critical. Whether you are part of a plant task force looking at improving quality, a commodity manager for iron, or a manufacturing plant manager, in HTT you are all in the same global Integrated Supply Chain organization. HTT employees learn from different cultures and share opportunities across borders.

Despite our size, we pride ourselves on our ability to make decisions quickly and without bureaucracy. Manufacturing in HTT is a combination of structured and pragmatic processes. Using Six Sigma and Lean tools, HTT strives to serve our customers and share best practices. As in all of Honeywell, careers in HTT Manufacturing span the four principles of ISC: plan, source, make, and deliver. In addition, HTT manufacturing careers span the globe. HTT employees receive exposure to global Supply Chain and Manufacturing careers that exist in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

Career Path

Career paths with HTT Manufacturing vary greatly. Employees can choose to specialize within one discipline of ISC such as operations planning, and gradually plan for larger and more complex operations. In addition, employees interested in leadership follow a career path that lets them touch each ISC pillar. In fact, many career paths in Manufacturing support and encourage lateral moves that follow the product cycle rather than just upward movement into the management ranks. Regardless of where you work, or your ISC discipline in HTT Manufacturing, you are part of a global team that works and shares ideas across time zones and continents.

For example, a senior leader with a background in Quality and Engineering joined Honeywell Turbo Technologies in 1995 as a technical operations manager focused on plant growth management in Atessa, Italy. Two years later, he became Plant Manager for Atessa, where he spent three years working and learning from his global peers to make Atessa a successful operation. After learning the benefit of sharing best practices from country to country, in 2000 he was made the Operations leader for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region located in Brussels, Belgium. Presently, his reports span the globe, from France, Italy, Romania, and Ireland, to Spain, India and the UK, with peers in China and the United States. His key priorities are to continue to increase productivity across the region while understanding and meeting customer requirements.

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