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LAYIQ - Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Strategic Program Leader, Residential HVAC at Trane Technologies

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 roadmaps to Executive-level audiences.
Drive Change Enablement & Workforce Readiness: Support cross-functional change management efforts during operational transitions, modernization programs, and technology integrations. Apply high organizational empathy to ensure clear communication, minimize team anxiety, support talent retention and development, and preserve valuable institutional knowledge.
Support Operational Design: Collaborate with advanced engineering teams to leverage standard engineering concepts—such as Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/DFA), FMEA, and Production Preparation Process (3P)—to optimize process layouts during network realignments.

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Strategic Program Leader, Residential HVAC

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