
Director Engineering - UOP
Rosemont, IL · HybridJob$195–244K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Director Engineering – UOP provides technical leadership for complex mega-project execution, partnering with project leadership and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role aligns technical disciplines, reviews engineering and vendor deliverables, and ensures work meets customer and UOP requirements while supporting schedule and cost commitments. The position reports to the Sr Program Director and follows a hybrid schedule in Rosemont, Illinois or Houston, Texas.
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Full job description
As a Director Engineering – UOP at Honeywell Technologies, you will provide technical leadership for the execution of complex mega projects. You will serve as a key technical partner to the Project Manager and Program Director, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and ensuring project deliverables meet customer and UOP requirements while achieving schedule and cost commitments.
In this role, you will lead through a matrixed organization across engineering disciplines including structural, mechanical, piping, instrumentation, electrical, rotating equipment, and other technical functions. You will drive alignment across these disciplines throughout project execution, including the coordination and timely review of technical documentation and vendor deliverables. Your strong engineering background, technical leadership, and ability to coordinate complex work across multiple stakeholders will be critical to ensuring UOP mega projects are delivered in accordance with technical requirements, schedules, and budgets.
You will report directly to the Sr Program Director and work out of our Rosemont, IL or Houston, TX location on a hybrid work schedule.
Key Responsibilities
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Provide technical leadership for the engineering execution of large, complex UOP mega projects.
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Serve as the technical partner to the Project Manager and Program Director, leading the technical aspects of project delivery while working closely with project leadership.
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Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams across structural, mechanical, piping, instrumentation, electrical, rotating equipment, and other technical disciplines.
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Ensure engineering deliverables comply with customer specifications, UOP standards, processes, and technical requirements.
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Drive engineering execution to meet project schedule and cost commitments.
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Coordinate the review and resolution of vendor drawings, documentation, and other technical deliverables in a timely manner.
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Work across a matrixed organization to align technical teams, maintain accountability, and resolve issues affecting project execution.
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Support the technical and commercial review of engineering and vendor documentation.
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Manage engineering activities and large budgets associated with large-scale projects.
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Partner directly with customers and internal stakeholders on technical matters throughout project execution.
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Promote disciplined execution of UOP engineering processes, procedures, standards, and specifications.
You Must Have
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Bachelor's degree from an accredited engineering institution.
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8+ years of experience in engineering, engineering program management, project engineering, or related technical project execution.
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Experience delivering complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects against schedule and budget commitments.
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Strong engineering background with experience coordinating multiple technical disciplines.
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Experience working with engineering specifications, technical requirements, vendor documentation, and engineering deliverables.
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Demonstrated ability to lead and influence teams in a matrixed environment without direct reporting authority.
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Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to engage technical, project, and customer organizations.
We Value
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Experience within Honeywell UOP or previous experience working with UOP engineering standards, processes, specifications, and procedures.
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Senior or Principal-level engineering experience supporting large, technically complex projects.
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Experience working within an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) environment or with a Tier 1 engineering organization.
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Experience coordinating structural, mechanical, piping, instrumentation, electrical, and rotating-equipment engineering disciplines.
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Strong technical judgment with the ability to identify, escalate, and resolve engineering issues that could affect project schedule, cost, quality, or compliance.
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Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries and drive accountability through matrixed teams.
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Strong customer-facing communication and technical leadership skills.
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Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making abilities.
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Collaborative mindset with a strong focus on execution, quality, and continuous improvement.
Pay Equity
The annual base salary range for this position is $195,000 - $244,000. Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Honeywell considers various factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Posting Date: 11/02/2026
Benefits of Working for Honeywell Technologies
In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell Technologies employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. Learn more.
Honeywell Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status. To learn more about inclusion and engagement, click here.
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.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.
How this job compares
Set against the 724 open Project Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$195–244K/yr
- Illinois median$102–143K/yr28 salary ranges
- US median$106–164K/yr324 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $220K, is 71% above the Illinois median midpoint ($128K) — in the top quarter of Project Engineering salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 29 open Project Engineering jobs in Illinois and 724 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Eaton Corporation12 open
- AbbVie3 open
- Sargent & Lundy3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Project Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (512 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 330 of the 724 open Project Engineering jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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