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Sr R&D Manager – Quantum and Optical Sensing

Honeywell
Plymouth, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 8/5/2025 CLOSED ON 9/3/2025

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Job Description

When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers and doers who make the things that make the future. That means changing the way we fly, fueling jets in an eco-friendly way, keeping buildings smart and safe and even making it possible to breathe on Mars. Working at Honeywell isn’t just about developing cool things. That’s why all of our employees enjoy access to dynamic career opportunities across different fields and industries.

Are you ready to help us make the future?

We are looking for an exceptional Sr R&D Manager – Quantum and Optical Sensing to lead and develop a talented team of scientists and technicians developing the next generation of advanced sensing technologies for Honeywell Aerospace. You will leverage your technical experience and skills to guide your team to investigate and solve challenging technical problems in inertial sensing, timing, and quantum sensing. You will use your leadership skills to motivate teams and develop people to their fullest. By collaborating with customers and broader engineering teams, you will balance team workload and drive exceptional team performance with high impact for the business.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Accelerate innovation and growth while leading a team of talented experienced scientists and engineers.
  • Partner with customers and broader engineering teams to ensure the resources and skills needed to drive business growth through technology development.
  • As a people leader you will focus on Honeywell’s five pillars of a successful leader:
  • Burning Platform: Demonstration of developing and delivering a compelling burning platform for your department. Elements of the burning platform are 1) Who is the competition? 2) What needs to be done to win? 3) When does it need to be done?
  • Employee Engagement: Drive employee engagement through activities that include, but are not limited to, strong performance feedback, coaching, reward and recognition, and regular touch point with your team through various channels to motivate and inform.
  • Department Operations: Drive strong employee motivation to deliver on, and exceed key metrics tied to productivity and efficiency. Make tough decisions and have a high bar for performance.
  • Project Engagement: Demonstration of staffing programs, estimating demand using available information, while working within the constructs of business financial constraints. Support project execution excellence, and work proposals and quotes within all constraints.
  • GBE/Strategy/ Business Acumen: Demonstrate understanding of your part in the competitive landscape, including full interaction with the Global Business Enterprise, product strategies, customer strategies, and competitive intelligence.

Qualifications

YOU MUST HAVE

  • Master’s Degree in science, engineering or related technical field, significant experience in engineering or R&D
  • 10 years overall scientific or engineering R&D experience
  • Due to government contracts, all applicants must be US Citizens.

WE VALUE

  • PhD degree in science, engineering or related technical field
  • Technical management experience.
  • History of technology development in the field of quantum sensing and timing, optical sensing, and/or silicon photonics
  • Demonstrated success working with internal customers and pursuing externally funded development efforts
  • Comfortable developing networks & building relationships
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Reliable and trustworthy with the highest ethical standards
  • Flexible working across cultures and time zones
  • Significant project or line management experience
  • Ability to lead, motivate, develop and mentor others
  • Security clearance or the ability to obtain one.

About Us

Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments – powered by our Honeywell Forge software – that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.
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