Reliability Engineering Leader

Quick Facts

Trane is seeking a Reliability Engineering Leader to build and lead a growing reliability team.

Description

This leader impacts the business through execution of a reliability strategy, organizational development, and cross-functional collaboration to drive improved product reliability across the product portfolio. The role focuses on improving product reliability and durability of commercial HVAC products and components, reducing field failures, and increasing customer confidence in mission-critical applications.

Where Is The Work

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

What You Will Do

• Lead, build, and scale a high-performing reliability team for the commercial HVAC business unit including managers, senior engineers, and data analysts
• Establish reliability operating system, strategies, standards, tools, KPIs, and governance
• Embed reliability engineering best practices into the way products are designed, validated, released, and supported
• Improve the reliability, durability, and lifecycle performance of commercial HVAC products
• Improve component reliability and durability of critical components using functional analysis, DFMEA, and component failure analysis; develop qualification plans; own component specifications for fit-for-use, durability, and reliability targets
• Work closely with suppliers to meet critical component and system reliability targets with focus on designing out failure modes
• Support engineering teams during major quality disruptions to drive rapid, rigorous RCCA and resolution
• Build data-driven field failure analytics, manage KPIs and dashboards, and prioritize design and corrective actions
• Support strategic customer needs in uptime-sensitive applications such as data centers and process cooling
• Drive training and coaching on reliability principles, root cause and corrective action methodology, FMEA, FRACAS, reliability predictions, and other reliability processes

What Success Looks Like

• Drive customer satisfaction by meeting expectations for equipment durability, reliability, and fitness for use
• Reduce reliability-driven business losses by eliminating repeat failures
• Establish a system of prequalified “parts on the shelf” with robust component specifications outlining component qualification and application requirements
• Reliability methods embedded into product development and launch processes
• Lead and develop a strong, scalable team with clear capabilities, roles, and development paths

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related field
• Leadership experience building and managing technical teams
• Significant experience in reliability engineering, quality, product engineering, or related technical leadership roles
• Strong background in reliability methods including reliability prediction, life data analysis, failure mode analysis, and reliability growth
• Experience with complex highly engineered systems preferred
• Reliability certifications or advanced reliability degree a plus

Benefits

Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives—we dare to care.

• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution
• Paid time off includes 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support

Safety Sensitive Role

Yes. The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive; may require that you pass additional drug screening.