Senior Reliability Engineering Leader, HVAC Systems

CFO Trane U.S. Inc.-CFO; Davidson (NC); On-site; USD 147,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K match

Paid time off

Job summary

Trane Technologies is seeking a Reliability Engineering Leader to build and guide a growing reliability team. The role focuses on driving a reliability strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and governance to improve product durability across the HVAC portfolio.

The leader will set standards, qualify components, and translate reliability risks into clear business actions for senior leadership, influencing product development and lifecycle decisions.

Qualifications

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

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.
• Build data-driven field failure analytics to identify trends and prioritize design and corrective actions; manage KPIs and dashboards.
• Support strategic customer needs in uptime-sensitive applications such as data centers and process cooling.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

FMEA

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

DFMEA

FRACAS

Job description

Trane Technologies is seeking a Reliability Engineering Leader to build and guide a growing reliability team. The role focuses on driving a reliability strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and governance to improve product durability across the HVAC portfolio.

The leader will set standards, qualify components, and translate reliability risks into clear business actions for senior leadership, influencing product development and lifecycle decisions.