Product Development Engineering Leader - Building Services

At Trane Technologies® we Challenge Possible. Our brands – including Trane® and Thermo King®  - create access to cooling and comfort in buildings and homes, transport and protect food and perishables, connect customers to elevated performance with less environmental impact, dramatically reduce energy demands and carbon emissions, and innovate with a better world in mind. We boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world.

This is an opportunity for a driven associate that excels in leading a team of engineers to develop new products and offerings within the building services team.  Keep your technical skills sharp while leading and coaching the rest of the engineering team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivate technical leader that excels in a highly collaborative new product development team in a fast growing building services department.  This role will be responsible leading the development of new service product offerings for use throughout North America.  There will be a heavy emphasis on working through the new product development (NPD) process and meeting or exceeding deadlines as set during strategic planning.  This team leader will be responsible for implementing the team strategy as it relates to new product launches, innovating for new technologies, sustaining current products, and improving current processes to ensure a strong pipeline of product releases.  We are looking for a highly effective team player that is able to develop and sustain an extraordinary level of team commitment and employee engagement.  This position will require strong relationship with the product support and product management team.  In this leadership role, strong communication skills will play a vital role in being able to articulate and communicate product development plans through the building services teams.  The ideal candidate would be highly motivated to perform and grow our product portfolio and team in an Agile environment.

Preferred Location:  La Crosse, WI, St. Paul, MN, Charlotte, NC or remote

Don’t meet all the requirements listed below? At Trane Technologies, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully deliver new products on schedule and budget for our building services product lines
• Partner with product management and sales to evolve the service product strategy and roadmap, anticipating and fulfilling the dynamic needs of current and future customers
• Develop and execute a multigenerational product plan (MGPP) for service products, ensuring that the positioning, pricing, cost, margins and customer value proposition support the overall building services strategy
• Collaborate with market research team to understand customer needs, and define the customer “Critical to Quality” requirements (CTQs) and associated systems to support new service offerings
• Initiate and support business cases for NPDs that execute elements of MGPP
• Define the operating structure and talent profiles require for a world class team, recruit and retain top talent 
• Engage, develop and coach team members to ensure that they have the motivation and competencies needed to be successful in current and future roles while fulfilling their ongoing career aspirations
• Establish, optimize and continuously improve the product development processes and procedures to quickly and efficiently deliver solutions that delight our customers
• Effectively engage cross-functional teams and leaders at all levels in and outside the organization
• Efficiency leverage global resources, business partners and vendor resources to achieve desired business outcomes

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years engineering experience developing new and sustaining products
• 2-5 years managing engineering or technical teams
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required. 
• Controls or Applied HVAC product knowledge preferred
• 5+ years experience working with remote overseas engineering teams in addition to teams located here in North America

Key Competencies:

• Self-motivated, high energy, servant leader with the ability to initiate, lead and problem solve in-person and virtually.
• Desire and willingness to be held accountable for meeting deadlines
• Highly effective team player able to develop and sustain an extraordinary level of team commitment, employee engagement and ownership
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Knowledge of NPD processes
• Strong technical acumen in HVAC&R product 
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Ability to influence with and without authority with teams throughout the organization

What’s in it for you:

• Benefits kick in day one!
• 6% 401K match, additional 2% core contribution = 8% overall match
• 3 weeks of vacation, plus site paid holidays
• Base Compensation Range is $105,000 to $183,750

o   Disclaimer: This base salary range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.