Sr. Mechanical Design Engineering Manager PGM

Honeywell Aerospace•Phoenix, AZ

About The Position

The Sr. Mechanical Design Engineering Manager – PGM leads the mechanical design engineering function responsible for Honeywell Aerospace’s power generators and motors. The role ensures robust mechanical architecture, detailed design execution, cross-functional integration, and lifecycle partnership for generator and motor hardware used across commercial, defense, and advanced technology programs. It sits within Design, Installations & Services Engineering and manages a high-performing team delivering new product introduction, product sustainment, technology maturation, and mechanical design excellence for rotating electrical machines. The team is located across Torrance, California; Phoenix, Arizona; and Mexicali, Mexico. Up to 25% travel is expected to support the team. The role leads mechanical design strategy, standards, and execution for PGM hardware, including rotors, stators, housings, bearings, cooling features, and structural elements. It guides design from concept through detailed execution and ensures compliance with performance, durability, manufacturability, cost, and certification requirements. The manager leads mechanical work scopes and cost estimates for new development, major redesigns, and advanced technology demonstrations, and ensures delivery of models, drawings, analyses, and configuration releases to program schedules. The position manages and develops a global team, promotes mechanical design excellence and digital engineering, and oversees performance management, staffing, labor forecasting, and resource allocation. It partners with Power Systems and ISC leadership on technology direction and investment priorities, contributes to enterprise design standards and tools, and supports technology maturation and next-generation PGM architecture. It also owns design process compliance and improvement, and champions design governance through reviews and hardware readiness checkpoints. Candidates must meet U.S. export-control requirements: be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status, or have the ability to obtain export authorization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related STEM field.
10+ years of mechanical product development or production experience with rotating electrical machines (generators/motors), propulsion, or power systems.
Demonstrated leadership of engineering teams and complex technical programs.
Experience with organizational change management, high-performance team development, and multifunctional stakeholder organizations.
Strong verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to engage with aerospace roles ranging from chief engineers to executive leadership.
Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility: be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status, or have the ability to obtain export authorization.

Nice To Haves

Experience with digital engineering, parametric design, and advanced CAD toolchain development.

Responsibilities

Own and drive mechanical design strategy, standards, and execution for PGM hardware, including rotors, stators, housings, bearings, cooling features, and structural elements.
Ensure the team can execute conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design while meeting performance, durability, manufacturability, cost, and certification requirements.
Provide expert team guidance on complex mechanical challenges, failure investigations, and root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activity.
Lead mechanical work scopes and cost estimates for new generator and motor development, major redesigns, and advanced technology demonstrators.
Maintain alignment with key stakeholders across global teams.
Drive timely delivery of models, drawings, design analyses, and configuration releases to support program schedules.
Manage, coach, and develop a global team of mechanical design engineers; build succession pipelines and grow technical capability.
Promote Honeywell Mechanical Design excellence and digital engineering adoption across the team.
Conduct performance management, staffing planning, labor forecasting, and resource allocation across multiple programs.
Partner with Power Systems and ISC leadership on generator and motor technology direction and investment priorities.
Influence enterprise standards for CAD modeling, GD&T, design rules, and advanced design tools.
Support technology maturation, including parametric modeling, digital engineering workflows, and next-generation PGM architecture development.
Ensure compliance with ASME Y14.5, internal design standards, customer requirements, export regulations, and aerospace and military certification requirements.
Drive continuous improvement of design processes, templates, learning and development tools, and mechanical methodologies.
Champion design governance through peer reviews, integration reviews, and hardware readiness checkpoints using digital and MBE tools.