Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Strategic Program Leader, Residential HVAC

Trane Technologies

Davidson, NC

Shift: Full time

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies , and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King , sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world. Learn about our benefits designed for you to Thrive at work and at home. We boldly go. Where is the work: Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires. What's in it for you: 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 roadmap