The company you would join is an automation company. After the Aerospace spin-off, Honeywell manages its businesses through three reportable segments: Building Automation, Process Automation and Technology, and Industrial Automation. It is chaired and led by Vimal Kapur, with Michal Stepniak as CFO, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and listed on Nasdaq as HON. Watch the financial trap: the FY2025 consolidated figure of $37,442 million still counts Aerospace’s $17,497 million, which was 47 percent of it, so it does not describe the company you would be joining. On the Honeywell Technologies recast basis, which is the one that does, FY2025 net sales were $19,945 million with segment profit of $3,507 million at a 17.6 percent margin, and second quarter 2026 net sales were $5,187 million, up 3.4 percent reported and 4 percent organic, with segment profit of $985 million, up 9.0 percent at a 19.0 percent margin.
Headcount looks alarming until you read the perimeter. At December 31, 2025 Honeywell reported about 101,000 employees across 79 countries with about 36,000 in the US, but that is a pre-spin figure that still includes the roughly 36,000 Aerospace employees. The filed spin-completion exhibit dated June 29, 2026 describes Honeywell Technologies as more than 50,000 employees. The gap is perimeter change, not layoffs. Aerospace is the bulk of it, with further divestitures of the warehouse automation business and personal protective equipment during 2026 and the Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies acquisition coming the other way. Note that Solstice separated on October 30, 2025, before the December 31 measurement date, so it is already out of the 101,000 and is not part of this drop. We are not itemising the bridge to the exact employee, because no post-spin audited headcount exists until the FY2026 10-K. The earlier rise from about 95,000 in 2023 to about 102,000 in 2024 was acquisitions too, including Carrier Access Solutions and CAES, not a hiring boom. What is genuinely a headwind is the restructuring cadence: 3,486 positions in 2024, 3,425 in 2025, and 949 in the first half of 2026, concentrated in Industrial Automation and Building Automation, which are exactly the segments that remain.
Where the hiring is: 1,341 open requisitions on the Honeywell tenant on 2026-08-22, 456 of them in the US, with roles posted the previous day. Atlanta had 86, Charlotte 81, and Houston 67, the three US local hubs the careers site itself lists, and Phoenix does not appear on the Honeywell tenant at all. India carried 330 requisitions, Bengaluru 142 and Pune 113, which nearly matches the entire US total and cuts against the assumption of a US-centric employer. Of the US postings that declare a workplace type, 51.5 percent are hybrid, 31.8 percent on-site, and 16.7 percent remote. By segment, Building Automation is the growth engine, up 10 percent reported at a 27.1 percent margin with orders up 13 percent led by data center and hospitality demand; Process Automation and Technology has the strongest forward signal despite soft sales, down 1 percent organic but with orders up 24 percent led by LNG demand; and Industrial Automation grew 4 percent organic with products led by demand in sensing and industrial measurement.
Because the competition is set by a smaller, focused automation company still hiring at volume while it restructures, a resume that lands on the right tenant, mirrors the posting's keywords, and proves quantified, behavior-aligned impact is what moves forward.
