Controls Applications Engineering Leader
Trane Technologies
- Saint Paul, MN
- $130,000-160,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!
- Family building benefits include 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, including in support of volunteer and parental leave needs.
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.
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- Function as the primary liaison between the Controls Application Engineers and other organizational teams (including Product & Portfolio Management, and Engineering Development teams).
- Facilitate the growth and maturity of the team and individual members.
- Set and track progress against goals for the overall team and individual members.
- Identify and remove roadblocks that slow the progress of team members.
- Serve as subject matter expert, primary decision maker, and owner of a controls project through the full development life cycle. Advocate customer and business needs and resolve technical, schedule, resource, and business constraints.
- Compile and analyze customer and business needs with Product Management teams based on market research, competitive analysis, business strategies, and product roadmaps.
- Conduct voice of customer activities with User Experience teams to identify customer, user, and business needs based on formal and informal activities.
- Collaborate on product roadmaps and strategy with product management teams.
- Author product requirements and build common understanding with engineering development and validation teams.
- Author and review engineering documentation including System Requirements Documents, Feature Functional Documents, User Interface Design Documents, and Test Plans.
- Collaborate with User Experience teams to develop user scenarios, user stories, personas, tasks flows, performance measurements, and usability tests.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on concepts and feasibility for product designs.
- Support product acceptance testing to ensure product requirements and user needs are satisfied.
- Manage field trial testing to ensure product operates successfully in varied systems and real building environments prior to official release.
- Support development of training modules, webinars, and user literature.
- Present value propositions and feature overviews of products and systems in customer visits.
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in HVAC, Engineering, or related field is required.
- Without a degree, at least 7 years of experience with Trane HVAC and/or controls is required.
- 5 years of experience in HVAC, Controls, or related building technologies is required.
- Knowledge and understanding of controls products and systems is preferred.
- New product development experience in hardware or software is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, embrace, and drive change for organizational improvement.
- Demonstrate building industry or facilities management experience with HVAC or BAS knowledge.
- Demonstrate ability to cope with stress, change and pressure while maintaining a pleasant and cooperative manner.
- Demonstrate a positive attitude and willingness to support others, especially when integrating with a new team.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in decision making, organizing many topics, prioritizing work to align with business objectives, and exercising good judgment.
- Communicate highly technical topics to non-technical users.
- Communicate user needs to highly technical audiences.
- Communicate compellingly to corporate stakeholders, sales offices, and end customers.
- Communicate compellingly in both written and oral presentation methods.
- Work regularly, dependably, independently, and accountably in a corporate culture.