hvac technician

field service technician

system engineer

software engineer

mécanicien en chauffage, en ventilation et en climatisation

Honeywell

Even though my hours are 730a-4pm, I am usually in the office by 630-7am to be able to get through my emails before my techs come in for the day and before my manager shows up so that I am ready for whatever challenges he needs me for.  My manager is great and my techs are also fabulous.  

The problem with this site is our customer is a completely unreasonable person.  Because this site is the first of it's kind in Ontario, Honeywell made some MAJOR mistakes with what they agreed and obligated us to within the Project Agreement with this customer.  With the time limitations and staffing levels that we currently have, there is no way that we will be able to meet the obligations of our PA, even though it is still expected.  I am usually running 15-20hrs (min) OT a week and find myself working before work, after work, and thinking about work while I sleep.  

I truly believe that with a customer who was dedicated to making the site the best it could be for all staff, patients and visitors, this site would be an enjoyable place to work.  Even though it would still be demanding and challenging, to be able to work side by side WITH our customer to make things better would be a great feeling.  Instead, we run head to head against eachother as it seems to be his missing in life to try to have us removed from site, or penalized so much for ridiculous things that we can't properly focus on our jobs.

Because I am such a dedicated employee, and I very much care about my job and my fellow staff members, I try to give 110% in everything I do.  However, even in this situation... 110% will not be enough without the added support from our Head Office.

It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know all the staff at the site I work at.  So many different personalities, and it makes for a great break in the chaos and stress of the day when you run into some of these people.  

There is a lack of realism from upper management with assisting in where the issues are.  Everyone is overwhelmed with the amount of work that they have on their plates, and even though this company pays pretty well, you give up your life for them if you want to stay on top of all the responsibilities of your job.  

In 2014, as well, the benefit premium went up, and the prescription program dropped almost in half for eligible medications, we lost vision care and we also lost other benefits.  

This company I believe expects everyone on their payroll to wear 10 hats, be self reliant in training yourself in policies and procedures, but holds you responsible for things you don't know.... even if you didn't know that you NEEDED to know them.  The training is lacking, and the site support that is VERY much needed, is no where in sight.  You have to be mentally tough, and willing to sacrifice quite a bit of your time if you expect to fill the roles that Honeywell sets out before you.

Honeywell and subcontractors working for Honeywell/power stream have a very solid objectives and they get completed, I recall one day when going into work I had a few customers cancel their appointments due to emergency situations, given that my day would be short and not enough work done, they quickly found replacements call for those who canceled and my day went on. very organized company. pleasure working with them. 

the most enjoyable part of my job was to see customers content with the service offered and I took passion in assuring that the customers understood the concept of the device being installed which was the elliptical eye reader, this device was designed to inform the customers the amount of electricity consumed in the home at that moment with lights stove etc, as well tally's up your amount of usage  at the end of month.

 Some struggles I would come across is  meter banks that are typically installed in government housing complex and those were difficult at times because the meters weren't always numbered to the homes and were all individual but all bunched up together, so I would ask the customers for their bill. and I would trace the meter number on the bill and match it with the meter that is located amongst 10-15 meters. In terms of co workers I had one other but he was doing his own work order, the job always required to work on a individual level, but I posses both skills of being able to work individually  and in groups. I would comment on the hardest part of job but I cant recall anything being  hard  for me to complete my daily work. I tend to find alterative ways in completing a task if a certain manner isn't working. expectations

A Honeywell workday consist of online training related to the job, software, and mini safety and procedure courses, Projects assigned to complete commissioning and testing of BAS controllers, sometimes the odd replacement of a control related to BAS communication with management and clients related to job description and progress.
Learned IT processes, and how BAS works, and the processes of working and in assigned project.
Management is a mixed bag of knowledge in regards to positions held underneath them by technicians, proper direction to the individual seems to be difficult.

Workplace culture is touchy, knowing the right people here will help you to succeed. If you’re out of the genre of the group progressing is difficult, and there is animosity at times, everyone says that they are a team, but when it comes down to communicating when having a difficult time, especially if you’re a new technician asking questions will quickly be exhausted in time.

Hardest part of the job is completing the task with the training provided, which is a lot of training and hard to remember everything adopting to the wide range of tasks demanded.

Easiest part of the job is being given a decent timeframe to adapt to the Culture before expectations are considered if that is not adopted.



My typical day begins around 4 am checking emails from home on company issued computer. Most of our subcontractor and our engineers are overseas. I do this in order to resolve issues with documents while personnel is still in the offices.
I arrive at the office between 6:30 or 7:00am retriving documents sent from our customers to recieve in. After checking transmittals and documents they are stamped and put into the teamroom and notifications are sent to engineers. I then start on transmittals to our customer of documents or drawings for approval. Checking the documents for any inconsistancies. Communicating with engineers when problems are found, and sending them back for the corrections. If they are correct I enter the information into our database system (orcale) create the transmittal, zip all pertinate documentation with transmittal and upload to the FTP site. I send email notification with a link to the file on the FTP site. I update our spreadsheet tracking documents sent and received.
If documents are urgently need out but are not finished by the time I am to leave for the day, I will check from home and transmit once they are completed.

1) A day started with stand up meeting within a team members for 20 minutes. We discuss safety issues, Project status, quality plans, delivery plans, improvement actions, goals matrics and Kiezens (improvement suggestion) in the stand up meeting.
2) So many things I have learned, imporntantly technical skills, project communication and quick meetings, team handling and building.
3) Project Planning and its execution, Task wise palnning for each team member, On time project delivery and Skill developement of team members by conducting share and learn sessions.
4) Collegues was very helpful and would love to work as a part of team with them. All of them created nice work culture in the organization.
5) We worked on retrofit jobs where inputs received from the customer are not matching with actual field condition. Need to put lot of efforts to get exact idea of field conditions remotely from India. I believe to work on USA or CANADA's jobs remotely from India with poor input drawings was the challeging part. 
6) Enjoyable part was, we celebrate every festival and Birthday of team members in the organization. Sometimes went for trips and outing with team members, which created more interaction within us.

Everyday was different based on how the youth's day/week/weekend had went. Helping with structured routine was a huge part of the daily work. Helping with meals, helping with conflicts, having fun. I learned about a lot of the important paperwork that is involved in this field, I learned Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, I got to learn from my supervisors and managers. I also got to help plan so fun activities. Management was great, helpful, resourceful and full of amazing helpful knowledge. Co-workers were amazing at their jobs and demonstrating what came next everyday with amazing ideas for handling conflicts and still being able to orientate/train and work with students. The hardest part about the job was seeing the hardships these children had to go through, the most enjoyable though was seeing the youth excel through Honeywell and eventually get to live where they wanted to go and get back out into their communities.

• Strong leader with ability to initiate change, and implement re-engineering/quality improvement processes while maintaining productive environment.

• Improving working standard helps to hire right person on required job, can develop best working procedure and standards to make ones job more productive. And everybody should be a manager of itself.

• LEAN concept helps to maintain inventory, Raw Material supplier’s performance, best working standards, and eliminate working wastage.

• Experience with start-up, turnaround, aggressive growth environments, mergers and acquisitions, bond financing, and major projects.

• Advanced Total Quality Management concept helps to reduce 30% cost of poor quality.

• Set business goals, propose strategies and implementation projects to involve different department managers to achieve company’s targets

I started working for EMS Canada in 2001. I enjoyed my job working in a fast paced Customer Service role working on returns for repair and overhaul. I worked with customers from around the globe. I was very passionate about the job and enjoyed working and solving my customers needs. I built good Customer relationships, gaining trust and reliability. 
 EMS was eventually sold to Honeywell and EMS adopted the Honeywell culture and customer service practices. Some important services were lost in this transaction. The close personal customer service needs were lost and the volume increased. The customers were then required to go to a website to create their own repair tickets and put in a que for the next individual to address their needs and problems. This method created longer lead times for delivery and troubleshooting.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The other software developers.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with upper management.  They seemed totally disconnected from the reality of Engineering.  While they may invest a lot of money in hardware development, the software side lacks important tools like a debugger.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Typical cubicle environment.  There’s no place to hang a winter jacket inside your somewhat cramped cubicle without it resting on the desk.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
SCRUM meeting, the rest of the day spent developing.  Sometimes mentoring junior software developers.

I worked for a company that was acquired by Honeywell. When the transition team first came in they told us that we were acquired because of our high margins and efficient processes.  In the next 2 years our processes were replaced by the Honeywell standards eroding the once high margins.  Senior Management forcing the frontline managers to rate their employees as under preforming, regardless of actual performance.   Managers actually told employees that it was your turn to be rated low and next year it will be some one else.  This motivated many to leave. Six senior & mid level managers left at one time. Quarterly layoffs became a lottery with people competing for severance packages. A work force of 600 people is barely 200.  Sadly We are not the only company that Honeywell has done this to.  

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