Facilities Maintenance Manager - Aerospace

Job Description

As a Facilities Maintenance Manager at Honeywell Aerospace, you will hold a key role accountable for overseeing and managing the maintenance and operational aspects of our organization's physical facilities. This position is essential in ensuring that facilities are well‑maintained, safe, and fully functional. You will report directly to our Facilities Manager and work out of our designated location. This position requires a hybrid work schedule, with a combination of on‑site and remote work.

Your guidance to the facilities team will foster a safe and productive work environment, enhancing employee satisfaction and productivity.

Honeywell Aerospace’s Maintenance, Facilities function provides leadership and governance for maintenance programs at our Torrance, CA site. You will be a site leadership team member for all aspects of facilities (facilities management, production equipment, test, etc.) and will use facilities project management skills to improve efficiency and reduce unplanned downtime and operating costs. The position reports to the Sr. Plant Director.

• Lead a facilities team and own specific aspects of the delivery of facilities project management.
• Design and execute scheduled preventive maintenance (PM) programs to maximize the lifespan of building assets and production equipment.
• Fully implement an effective TPM program under the guidance of the Site Leader and Aero Facilities Director.
• Manage budgets, purchase orders and invoices and maintain excellent working relationships with key vendors (with support from the site Finance leader).
• Coordinate project activities to minimize impact on facility and manufacturing operations, working closely with site leadership when impacts are unavoidable.
• Provide regular updates, including schedule and budget, to project stakeholders.
• Escalate issues to the Site Leader and Aero Facilities Director.
• Ensure work is done in compliance with all relevant building and safety codes.
• Identify, manage and mentor junior levels and peers to mitigate project risks, maintaining approved budgets and schedules and applying principles of value engineering to reduce costs.
• Identify and drive process improvements to decrease project cycle time and scrap generation from poor equipment performance.
• Review project execution readiness during each annual capital cycle.
• Identify project bundling and program opportunities to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.
• Integrate energy efficiency and sustainability into projects whenever possible and coordinate Cap Ex requests with the Aero Facilities Director for Facilities Critical, WPM and Sustainability.
• Own municipal relationships to expedite permit approvals.
• Reduce vendor cost associated with professional & procured services, repair and maintenance and energy/utilities.
• Reduce Cap Ex costs through optimization of project management.
• Reduce operating expenses with incentives and management of space, rentals, and leases; reduce waste disposal, increase recyclables for a site, net cash benefit.

• 7+ years of experience in project management and facilities.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
• Comfortable reading and understanding blueprints and drawings.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and general computer software.
• Demonstrated knowledge of construction, engineering, and architecture principles.
• Ability to budget, schedule, negotiate, and control costs.
• High degree of familiarity with contract and subcontract documents, terms, and conditions.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Experience implementing a strong management operating system.
• Ability to understand customer requirements and translate into solutions.
• Knowledge of business process analysis practices, principles, and tools.

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, the candidate must be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.