Reliability Engineering Leader

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About the role

Trane is seeking a Reliability Engineering Leader to build and lead a growing reliability team. 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. This leader will improve product reliability and durability of commercial HVAC products and components, reduce field failures, and increase customer confidence in mission-critical applications. They will set reliability standards and governance across product development, create component qualification and component application requirements using field performance analytics, and root cause and corrective action processes. The leader will expand and develop a technically capable team, establish metrics, and translate technical reliability risks into clear business decisions for senior leadership.

Success will be measured by product level field performance, implementation of reliability engineering process discipline, speed of issue resolution, and organizational capability growth. The reliability leader will partner cross-functionally with engineering, quality, service, sourcing, manufacturing, and product management to ensure reliability is designed into products and sustained throughout the product lifecycle. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape product performance, customer trust, and long-term business results. The Reliability Engineering Leader will help create a strong reliability culture across the organization while building the team, methods, and operating rhythm needed to support growth and customer expectations in demanding applications.

The ideal candidate is a technically credible and highly collaborative leader who brings strong systems thinking, urgency, curiosity, and discipline. They are comfortable leading through ambiguity, influencing across functions, coaching teams on structured problem-solving, and translating complex reliability issues into clear business actions.

Responsibilities

• 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:
  • Work with product architects and systems engineers to characterize component application requirements using tools like functional analysis, DFMEA, and component failure analysis.
  • Use application requirements to create qualification plans that drive improvements to component reliability ensuring robust components are applied in product designs.
  • Own component specification for critical components to specify 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 to identify trends and prioritize design and corrective actions. Manage KPIs and dashboards to aid leadership in making informed reliability decisions.
• 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 that outline component qualification and application requirements. Measurable improvements to critical component reliability.
• Reliability methods are embedded into product development and launch processes
• Lead and develop a strong, scalable team with clear capabilities, roles, and development paths

Requirements

• 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

Schedule

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

Pay

Annual Base Salary Range: $146,521.66 - $235,500.00. This is a salaried position with incentive eligibility. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation.

Benefits

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives
• Family building benefits including 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

Benefit offerings may vary depending on Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations.

This is a Safety Sensitive role, which may require additional drug screening.