Senior Project Manager

At Trane Technologies TM and through our businesses including Trane ® and Thermo King ® , we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what's possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

Job Summary:

The Senior Project Manager will lead multi-location, cross functional teams to deliver new Commercial HVAC products to market through a structured stage gate process. This role ensures new products meet specific customer requirements, program goals, timelines and budgets. Program Managers take P&L accountability for all NPD activity through product launch. In this role, you will manage objectives and influence teams without direct authority, while gaining support and maintaining schedule velocity. You will also leverage product, project, technical and investment steward leadership to ensure the project success. You will be comfortable in ambiguity and an advocate for improving program efficiency and finding ways to scale the team. You will manage all aspects of projects, from beginning to end, with direct responsibility for project execution while leading a team, or teams, to accomplish specific objectives in a given time frame and with available resources. You will also be responsible for the administration, implementation, and management of control projects and accountable for assigned project's scope of work, schedule, and budget. Trane always focuses on a total solution to provide our customers with the most energy efficient buildings.

Core Job Responsibilities (others may be added):

• Facilitate/Lead program charter, scope, commercialization, requirements, risk, planning, schedule development.

• Build strong relationships with program sponsors at all levels.

• Build cross-functional ownership of NPD as a business process within the Industrial group.

• Assess programs cross-functional resource requirements and proactively engage sponsors and functional leaders to fill resource gaps on a timely basis to ensure project success.

• Manage NPD Program deliverables, risks and timing; utilize critical path management methodologies to manage schedule, scope and resource requirements.

• Timely communication of project status to all stakeholders.

• Review project proposals or plans to determine a time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and the assignment of available departmental resources to various project phases.

• Drives fundamental activities from concept to performing as pertains to: Risk, Issue, Change Mgt, Resource Allocation, Resource visibility and reporting with key stakeholders.

• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.

• Motivate a team to work together (w/o direct authority) towards a common goal and to achieve co-operation within the team while providing professional support, and ability to delegate with respect and ownership.

• Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.

• Review/approve the work plan of an external service provider or consultancy contracted to execute the project.

• Implement a project communication plan.

• Conduct risk assessment and mitigation.

• Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality and integrity of information, while providing consistency in content and "look and feel" across the organization.

• Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.

• Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.

• Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.

• Ability to travel up to 20%.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree Engineering or Business (or related discipline) and at least 5+ years of project/program execution is required.

• Master's Degree, MBA or Advance Program Management Accreditation is preferred.

• PMI/PMP Certification preferred.

Key Competencies:

• New Product (Design, Test, Supplier Readiness & Mfg Integration) experience preferred

• Scrum | Agile Methodology experience preferred

• Experience in managing cross-functional teams, leading people

• Ownership and Commitment to Excellence

• Emotional Intelligence

• Servant Leadership

• Stakeholder Partnership

• Learning Agility & Business Acumen

• Risk Management & Judgement

• Product & Customer Centricity

• Organizing, developing and motivating a team

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.

Annual Compensation Range is $75,000 to $140,000 annually. Disclaimer : This salary range is based on US national averages. Actual pay could be a result of seniority/experience level, merit and geographic location where the actual work is performed.