Project Engineer

Honeywell International Inc.; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell International Inc. in South Africa seeks a technical interface engineer to define project requirements with customers, lead design activities, and ensure delivery of compliant, high-quality solutions across disciplines.

The role involves coordinating prerequisites, providing technical leadership, and ensuring project outcomes meet safety and quality standards while managing costs and schedules. Travel to remote sites, including international locations, is expected as part of project

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualified preferable (degree and/or trade, IT, Electrical or Electronic Diploma or higher).
• Interpret and solve technical problems with customers and internal teams.
• Experience with Honeywell control systems and EBI products is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Acts as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
• Ensures prerequisites (design inputs, tools, documentation, deliverables, schedule, budget) are in place before work.
• Produces functional and concept technical design specifications and provides leadership for single discipline projects.
• Ensures engineered solutions meet project requirements (functionality, standards, quality, documentation).
• Monitors work against project plan, manages changes, identifies risks/opportunities.

Skills

IT skills

Low Current skills

Analytical ability

Results oriented

Time management

Customer focus

Communication skills

Team player

Education

Degree or trade in IT/Electrical/Electronic

Tools

SMS

SAP

CPQ

VOC

Safety Playbook

Job description

• Acts as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that the project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
• Ensures that required prerequisites (e.g., design inputs, tools, documentation, deliverables, schedule, budget) are in place prior to commencing work.
• Produces functional and concept technical design specifications and provides technical leadership, support, and expertise for single discipline
• Ensures that the engineered solution meets project requirements in terms of functionality, standards, quality, and supporting documentation and implementation process at minimum cost.
• Ensures that work assignments are executed to appropriate standards and quality systems (Implementation, Test and Documentation)
• Monitors and controls assigned work scope against the project plan, ensures effective change control, and identifies risks / opportunities.
• Proactively recommends potential quality and efficiency improvements within the engineering group
• Shares technical knowledge with project team, supervisor, own discipline, and other engineering disciplines
• Reports progress and technical problems to project manager with regards to relevant project work.
• Actively contributes in the pre-engineering phase of a project. As such, identifies to the customer which information is required before project starts.

Job Description

• Acts as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that the project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
• Ensures that required prerequisites (e.g., design inputs, tools, documentation, deliverables, schedule, budget) are in place prior to commencing work.
• Produces functional and concept technical design specifications and provides technical leadership, support, and expertise for single discipline
• Ensures that the engineered solution meets project requirements in terms of functionality, standards, quality, and supporting documentation and implementation process at minimum cost.
• Ensures that work assignments are executed to appropriate standards and quality systems (Implementation, Test and Documentation)
• Monitors and controls assigned work scope against the project plan, ensures effective change control, and identifies risks / opportunities.
• Proactively recommends potential quality and efficiency improvements within the engineering group
• Shares technical knowledge with project team, supervisor, own discipline, and other engineering disciplines
• Reports progress and technical problems to project manager with regards to relevant project work.
• Actively contributes in the pre-engineering phase of a project. As such, identifies to the customer which information is required before project starts.

Daily Technical Activities

• Acts as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that the project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
• Ensures that required prerequisites (e.g., design inputs, tools, documentation, deliverables, schedule, budget) are in place prior to commencing work.
• Produces functional and concept technical design specifications and provides technical leadership, support, and expertise for single discipline
• Ensures that the engineered solution meets project requirements in terms of functionality, standards, quality, and supporting documentation and implementation process at minimum cost.
• Ensures that work assignments are executed to appropriate standards and quality systems (Implementation, Test and Documentation)
• Monitors and controls assigned work scope against the project plan, ensures effective change control, and identifies risks / opportunities.
• Proactively recommends potential quality and efficiency improvements within the engineering group
• Shares technical knowledge with project team, supervisor, own discipline, and other engineering disciplines
• Reports progress and technical problems to project manager with regards to relevant project work.
• Actively contributes in the pre-engineering phase of a project. As such, identifies to the customer which information is required before project starts.

Daily General Activities

• Availability for and performance of duties outside of normal working hours.
• Assist (be available as required) for after hours and emergency services requirements associated with the client base.
• Oversee update of site-specific documentation and quality assurance information.
• Accurate and timeous completion and preperation of project job administration for processing by BCS team.
• Accurate and timeous completion and submission of all required administration, Time Sheets, HSE etc.
• Multi-site responsibilities
• Travel is required to remote sites, both locally and international

Daily Health and Safety Activities

• Carry out hazard and risk management for all tasks as per company policy and procedures.
• Reporting near misses, incidents and other opportunities for improvement with respect to Health and Safety.
• Carry out hazard and risk assessments for all tasks as per site policy and procedures.
• Ability to identify and impliment safety improvements in the work place.
• Complete pre-job risk assessments
• Follow all customer and Honeywell HSE expectations
• Complete all required training and procedure reviews
• Report all injuries to management
• Report all unsafe conditions and behaviors through SOS and take appropriate corrective action
• Wear all required personal protective equipment

Customer Services

• Technical consulting, repair, service support, design and implementation support to the service business and customers. This includes pre-sales support to the sales / account management team, as well as to the Projects and Engineering Teams on project implementation
• Effectively meet customer needs, build productive customer relationships and take responsibility for customer satisfaction.
• Ensuring delivery of value to Honeywell clients and customers
• Ensuring that customer satisfaction levels are up to plan
• Ensuring customer satisfaction through direct liaison with client representatives, customers and service recipients.
• Carry out to a high standard and quality all Project and Renewal Work
• Ensure that you continually use available support tools and software to achive a high level of customer satisfaction, including but not limited to available mechanical and software tools , SMS, SAP, CPQ, VOC, Honeywell Performance Development, Safety Playbook, etc.
• Participate in customer meetings
• Ability to interact and build relationships with customers
• Management of the day-to-day operational service works associated with the client base.
• Ensure that customer agreed time lines and targets are met.
• Consistently deliver services in order to meet the performance requirements of project.

Skills required:

• Strong IT and Low Current related skills
• Analytical ability
• Results Orientated
• Assertive
• Time Management
• Customer Focus
• Communication Skills
• Effective Team player

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualified preferable (degree and/or trade, IT, Electrical or Electronic Diploma or higher) in business/facility management, or related industry.
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills.
• Fault finding and repairs to Electronic equipment.
• Experience with Honeywell control systems and EBI products including BMS, Access Control, Security, HVAC, Fire and Life Safety, CCTV and Digital Video, Asset Tracking, Energy Management and other systems that may from time to time be added to the product range.

Experience

• Exceptional self management capability and process improvement skills
• Strong technical skills and broad exposure to technical issues
• Ability to work in a challenging environment with a mix of infrastructure, equipment and systems and a wide variety of client groups
• Project management experience

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.