Reliability Engineering Leader
About The Position
Trane Technologies is seeking a Reliability Engineering Leader to build and lead a growing reliability team for its commercial HVAC business. The role will drive a reliability strategy, organizational development, and cross-functional collaboration to improve product reliability and durability across the product portfolio, reduce field failures, and increase customer confidence in mission-critical applications. The leader will establish reliability standards, governance, tools, metrics, and processes across product development and the product lifecycle. This includes creating component qualification and application requirements informed by field performance analytics, strengthening root cause and corrective action practices, and translating technical risks into clear business decisions for senior leadership. The role partners with engineering, quality, service, sourcing, manufacturing, product management, suppliers, and customers to ensure reliability is designed into products and sustained over time. The position is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape product performance, customer trust, and business results while building a capable team and a strong reliability culture. The work arrangement is onsite Monday through Thursday, with the option to choose the work location on Fridays based on work needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with complex, highly engineered systems.
- Reliability certifications or an advanced reliability degree.
Responsibilities
- Lead, build, and scale a high-performing reliability team for the commercial HVAC business unit, including managers, senior engineers, and data analysts.
- Establish the reliability operating system, strategies, standards, tools, KPIs, and governance.
- Embed reliability engineering best practices into product design, validation, release, and support.
- Improve the reliability, durability, and lifecycle performance of commercial HVAC products.
- Work with product architects and systems engineers to characterize component application requirements using functional analysis, DFMEA, and component failure analysis.
- Create component qualification plans based on application requirements to improve component reliability and ensure robust components are used in product designs.
- Own specifications for critical components, including fit-for-use, durability, and reliability targets.
- Work with suppliers to meet critical component and system reliability targets, with a focus on designing out failure modes.
- Support engineering teams during major quality disruptions by driving rapid, rigorous root cause and corrective action and resolution.
- Build data-driven field failure analytics to identify trends and prioritize design and corrective actions.
- Manage KPIs and dashboards to help leadership make informed reliability decisions.
- Support strategic customer needs in uptime-sensitive applications, including data centers and process cooling.
- Train and coach teams on reliability principles, root cause and corrective action methodology, FMEA, FRACAS, reliability predictions, and other reliability processes.
- Develop a strong, scalable team with clear capabilities, roles, and development paths.
- Establish a system of prequalified components with robust specifications outlining component qualification and application requirements.
Benefits
- Health insurance and holistic wellness programs with incentives, effective on day one for the employee and family.
- Fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
- Up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options supporting volunteer and parental leave.
- 401(k) match.
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs.
- Tuition assistance and student debt support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
