Trane is seeking a Reliability Engineering Leader to build and lead a growing reliability team. This leader impacts the business through execution of a reliability strategy, organizational development, and cross-functional collaboration to drive improved product reliability across the product portfolio.
Compensation
Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range: $146,521.66 - $235,500.00
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
Work with product architects and systems engineers to characterize component application requirements using tools like functional analysis, DFMEA, and component failure analysis
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related field
Nice to have: Experience with complex highly engineered systems
Perform reliability related tasks including design tradeoffs, reliability predictions/assessments, de‑rating analysis, allocation of reliability requirements, failure rate estimation, facilitation of FMEA, and support to design reviews and failure investigations
Create reliability block diagrams/models
Work with engineering team to develop technical solutions to potential reliability and availability problems
Adapt probability and statistical tools/principles to solve problems involving non‑standard configurations
Utilize standard commercial best practices and industry tools to conduct reliability analyses and assessments
Perform RAM (Reliability Availability Maintainability) activities in Projects and Programs using industry standard RAM tools and calculation methods.
Compensation
The anticipated salary range for candidates who will work in Rochester, NY is $65,100 to $97,700 per year.
Responsibilities
Coordinate and perform all the RAM activities for projects and product design lifecycles, from the Tender phase through commissioning and demonstration periods.
Define the RAM approach and strategy for assigned projects and programs
Responsible for the main RAM deliverables through a project/program lifecycle, including RAM Program Plan, RAM report/analysis, Demonstration Test Plans & Procedures, RAM Monitoring plans, and RAM Monitoring reports
Perform core RAM activities for projects and programs, including Tender/Design phases: Reliability Prediction (MTTF/ MTBF/ MTBFF/ MTBSF/ MTTR), Lifetime Analysis, Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Degraded modes analysis, Creates Reliability Block Diagram, Functional Reliability, Service Reliability and/or Availability modelling
Operational phase: data collection from field/customer and data collection from repair sites, root cause identification and RAM classification definition, statistical analysis of collected data, Reliability growth analysis, and actions plan proposal as part of an overall FRACAS effort
Requirements
B.S. in RAM, Engineering, Quality Assurance, related technical field, or additional 4 years of relevant experience
Senior Reliability Engineer responsible for RAM activities across defense systems and products.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute reliability program plans in line with contract requirements and applicable standards
Perform reliability predictions, FMEA/FMECA, fault tree analysis, derating and worst-case analyses, and reliability block diagram modeling
Define and run reliability test programs, including HALT/HASS, environmental stress screening, accelerated life testing, and reliability growth testing
Contribute to design reviews (PDR, CDR) and influence design for reliability and maintainability early in development
Support sustainment engineering, including obsolescence and parts-quality assessments, and supplier reliability oversight
Requirements
BSc or MSc in engineering (electrical, mechanical, systems, or related)
Nice to have: Experience in a tier 1 defense supplier company interacting directly with the military customer
Nice to have: Experience with Air Defence and/or Strike systems
Nice to have: Experience with modern European RAM standards: IEC 60812, FIDES, ANSI/GEIA-STD-0009, ASD S3000L
Nice to have: Familiarity with military reliability and environmental standards (e.g., MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461)