Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Strategic Program Leader, Residential HVAC

Trane Supply; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Trane Supply seeks an Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Strategic Program Leader for Residential HVAC to drive long-term footprint strategy and execute multi-phase capital programs across multiple sites.

You will partner with BUs, plant leadership, and executives to optimize networks, manage risk, and deliver capital-efficient transformations with up to 30% travel. Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing operations, industrial engineering, or supply chain.
• 5+ years of direct leadership in manufacturing, operations strategy, or running complex capital/transformation programs.
• Proven experience coordinating multi-phase capital programs across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead and optimize the Residential SBU manufacturing footprint with long-term network architecture.
• Own integration of complex capital programs, site start-ups, brownfield expansions, and work transfers.
• Drive phased execution, governance and decision-making across BUs and plants.
• Translate analyses into executive proposals and drive strategic options with leadership.
• Support workforce readiness and change management during operational transitions.

Skills

Strategic acumen

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Footprint optimization

Capital project execution

Stakeholder management

Operations strategy

Network design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree or MBA

Tools

MES

PLM

Automation technologies

Job description

The **Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Strategic Program Leader for Residential HVAC** is a critical, high-impact leadership role within the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team. This position carries a unique, dual-focus mandate: actively driving strategic manufacturing network design, while orchestrating the end-to-end execution of complex footprint transformations and regional capital programs.The ideal candidate is a blend of a strategic operations thinker and a disciplined program integrator. You will partner closely with Business Units (BUs), Plant Leadership, and senior cross-functional executives to design optimized manufacturing networks and lead the implementation of multi-phase programs comprising multiple highly interdependent sub-projects. In this role, you will translate long-term operations strategy into structured, phased execution plans that ensure operational excellence, capital efficiency, and long-term business resilience across our manufacturing sites. Must be able to travel up to 30%.**What you will do:****Strategic Footprint & Strategy Formulation**Lead and contribute to the analytical framing, design, and continuous optimization of the Residential SBU manufacturing footprint. Rather than reacting to localized capacity gaps, this role proactively evaluates the 5-to-10-year network architecture (focused vs. flexible plants, centralized hubs vs. regional final assembly) to support business growth and margin objectives.**Multi-Site Program Integration & Execution**Serve as the single owner of the integration through-line for complex capital programs, facility start-ups, brownfield expansions, site consolidations, and strategic work transfers. You will ensure that these intricate transitions are executed seamlessly, mitigating risk and maintaining continuity for customer commitments.**Operations Strategy & Network Optimization*** **Strategic Footprint Planning:** Drive cross-functional teams through structured footprint and network evaluation processes, aligning corporate strategy with regional operational realities.* **Demand Scenario Modeling:** Partner with Commercial teams to align capacity plans with market demand forecasts, utilizing scenario modeling to ensure network assets are designed to withstand market volatility rather than single-point forecasts.* **Network Design Principles:** Help establish structural make-vs-buy, vertical integration, and factory specialization strategies. Balance the operational and financial trade-offs of centralized component manufacturing against regional localized final assembly.* **Business Case Development:** Collaborate with Finance partners to co-author robust business cases, evaluating capital investment options against status-quo operational baselines while clearly quantifying strategic benefits (such as service-lead compression and supply-chain resilience).* **Geographic & Site Selection Analysis:** Evaluate candidate regions and sites against critical external and internal criteria, including industrial policies, trade/tariff exposure, local labor depth, supplier ecosystem density, energy infrastructure, and local permitting timelines.**Program Management, Governance & Integration*** **Orchestrate Multi-Phase Programs:** Provide master integration, schedule coordination, and financial oversight for complex footprint programs containing multiple highly interdependent, concurrent sub-projects (e.g., equipment relocation, regulatory approvals, site buildouts).* **Enforce Phase-Gate Governance:** Implement disciplined phase-gate methodologies to sequence program milestones, managing capital expenditure risk and establishing clear demand/utilization triggers before releasing subsequent phases of capital.* **Establish Decision Governance:** Define and align clear program governance and program team operating structures among Business Unit leaders, corporate functions, and plant management to facilitate rapid, structured decision-making.* **Influence Senior Leadership:** Translate complex, technical, and financial analyses into highly polished executive proposals. Pre-wire key stakeholders and present strategic options, financials, and phased roadmaps to Executive-level audiences.* **Drive Change Enablement & Workforce Readiness:** Support cross-functional change management efforts during operational transitions, modernization programs, and technology integrations. Apply high organizational empathy to ensure clear communication, minimize team anxiety, support talent retention and development, and preserve valuable institutional knowledge.* **Support Operational Design:** Collaborate with advanced engineering teams to leverage standard engineering concepts—such as Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/DFA), FMEA, and Production Preparation Process (3P)—to optimize process layouts during network realignments.**What you will bring:****Education*** **Required:** Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business, or a related technical discipline.* **Preferred:** Master’s degree or MBA.**Experience*** **Required:** 10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing operations, industrial engineering, or supply chain.* **Preferred:** 5+ years of direct leadership in manufacturing, operations strategy, or running complex capital/transformation programs within a highly matrixed industrial environment.* **Track Record of Program Leadership:** Proven experience successfully coordinating multi-phase capital programs or transition initiatives, overseeing complex timelines and coordination across multiple manufacturing sites.**Technical & Leadership Competencies:*** **Advanced Strategic Acumen:** Ability to think holistically about long-term network architectures and challenge traditional assumptions around capacity, site selection, and operating models.* **Complex Program Integration:** Mastery of program management methodologies for highly interdependent workstreams (critical path, resource smoothing, risk register management).* **Cross-Functional Fluency:** A collaborative leader who can seamlessly translate and align the distinct priorities of Finance, Procurement, HR, IT, Engineering, and Plant Operations around a single program goal.* **Stakeholder Management:** Exceptional interpersonal and political savvy. Experience utilizing structured decision governance models to drive alignment across competing business units or functions.* **Operational Technology Alignment:** Strong understanding of advanced manufacturing technologies (MES, PLM, automation levels) and how digital infrastructure integrates across a multi-plant network. **Échelle annuelle de salaire de base ou échelle horaire de rémunération de base :**$123,721.66 - $199,300.00**Type de rémunération :**Salaire**Admissible à la prime**Yes**Admissible à la commission sur les ventes :**No**Avertissement**Nous nous efforçons d’offrir une rémunération concurrentielle pour ce poste, adaptée à divers facteurs. La rémunération réelle dépendra d’éléments tels que l’ancienneté, le mérite, la localisation géographique, la formation, l’expérience, les exigences en matière de déplacements et l’appartenance syndicale. Notre fourchette de rémunération est généralement basée sur la moyenne nationale du pays. De plus, les avantages sociaux peuvent varier selon la région, l’alignement d’affaires, la participation syndicale et le statut de l’employé.**Épanouissez-vous au travail comme à la maison :** * Les avantages sociaux entrent en vigueur DÈS LE PREMIER JOUR pour vous et votre famille, notamment l’assurance maladie et des programmes de mieux-être global offrant de généreuses mesures incitatives – NOUS OSONS PRENDRE SOIN DE VOUS !* Les avantages liés à la fondation d’une famille comprennent une couverture pour les traitements de fertilité ainsi qu’une aide à l’adoption et à la gestation pour autrui.* Les congés payés comprennent jusqu’à 15 jours de vacances, des jours fériés payés, des congés de maladie et d’autres options pour soutenir le bénévolat et les congés parentaux.* Cotisation de contrepartie au 401K, possibilités de formation et de perfectionnement grâce aux programmes de l’entreprise, ainsi qu’une aide aux frais de scolarité et au remboursement de la dette étudiante. Avis : Les avantages offerts peuvent varier selon le site, les conventions collectives et les réglementations locales/de l’ÉtatPoste à risque en matière de sécurité :YesL’entreprise désigne certains postes comme étant à sécurité critique. Les postes à sécurité critique peuvent exiger que vous réussissiez des tests de dépistage de drogues supplémentaires. Ce poste est à sécurité critique :Nous offrons une rémunération concurrentielle ainsi qu’une gamme complète d’avantages sociaux et de programmes. Nous souscrivons au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi; toutes les candidatures qualifiées seront prises en considération sans égard à la race, la couleur, la religion, le sexe, l’orientation sexuelle, l’identité de genre, l’origine nationale, la grossesse, l’âge, l’état matrimonial, le handicap, le statut de vétéran protégé ou tout autre statut protégé par la loi.