Research & Development in Specialty Materials

Career

A career in Honeywell Research & Development is an opportunity to make technology happen. In our Manufacturing facilities and labs, R&D invents, designs, and hones new products for an array of markets and applications.

Research & Development recruits creative minds that push our technical portfolio forward to meet the demanding needs of our clients worldwide. Working across industries and technologies, R&D keeps our planes in the air, our homes cool, our cars running, and our environment clean.

Career Focus

With a focus in Specialty Materials, R&D produces chemicals and materials to make our world more secure, safe, and innovative in our laboratories and facilities around the world. Scientists and engineers working in Specialty Materials eliminate CFCs and ozone-depleting agents, and they work to make the elements of semiconductors and microprocessors faster and more powerful. Our Performance Products engineers make pharmaceutical packaging tamper resistant, and they protect civil and military forces with fibers that make vests and armor projectile resistant.

A career in Honeywell Specialty Materials R&D includes creating new ideas and making previous ideas better. In it you will experience the birth of new technologies, products, and processes, and you may design new and better applications, implement new technologies, and provide technical support for our customers.

Career Path

One possible path is to begin as a Bench Chemist, working in the labs on applications and new product development. From there you might manage teams of chemists in new product development. Once the product is made, you may then work closely with Sales & Marketing, and have significant input and face time with customers. Management of an entirely new technology could follow, and our leaders end up managing entire R&D sites. Another path starts in Product Development, and moves into Simulations and Modeling. This path will have you going into our plants and setting up experiments. You will work to expand the work done in our facilities and drive the best technologies, with the most capacity, in the safest way possible.

If you find the Marketing and Business Development of designs appealing, you would move into our commercial groups and learn how to work with clients to meet their technology needs. Then, you would rotate into our Six Sigma training to work on client processes and application rollout. Some become managers of entire product lines or businesses.

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