Unit Controls Technical Lead

Unit Controls Technical Lead

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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:

A sustainable future demands ongoing digital advancement. Our digital solutions team leads the way in developing next-generation climate technology focused on reducing demand-side energy consumption and emissions. Our team—including Brain Box AI, Nuvolo, and more—combines technical expertise with advanced analytics to create data-driven solutions that add real value for customers, communities, and the planet. Whether you're advancing AI in HVAC or driving analytics for greater efficiency, your ideas will help engineer solutions for stronger communities and a sustainable world.

Trane Technologies is currently seeking a Unit Controls Technical Lead professional to join our Trane team in Clarksville, TN. This team is creating the next generation, industry leading HVAC equipment controls. Our customers know Trane's reputation for delivering industry-leading, energy-efficient and reliable solutions to minimize operating costs while reducing environmental impact to the world.

Here are some of the specifics, we have great experience in our domain, and we want you to bring your views, opinions, and perspectives to our team. You will learn things about our business that you might not have even thought about. We have strong technical leadership, we want you to bring your expertise and perspective, and your desire to learn and we exist for our customers, and through our relationships with our customers, we intend to change the world.

What you will do:

The Unit Controls Technical Lead will be responsible for leading the functional product development to create new or enhanced HVAC controls products/features. This role will be responsible for:

• Ensuring that technical and regulatory objectives are met through our new product/technology development process. Designs and evaluates new and/or existing engineering products by cohesively working with Equipment Mechanical Engineers.
• Generating functional specifications for software engineers to ensure the design intent is implemented. Confers with management, production, and marketing staff to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products.
• Serving as the controls technical engineering core team member on cross functional projects. Creates product definition relating to technical requirements by leading technical design.
• Working knowledge of control systems, instrumentation, HMI, communication networks, and distributed networked systems. Knowledge of various communication protocols and the various architectures and topologies associated with them.
• Experience with requirements management tools. Utilize effective communication and facilitation skills both, inside and outside of the development team.
• Following established new product development procedures and guidelines to leverage shared organizational knowledge and experience.
• Ability to meet short- and long-term deadlines. Effectively meet the needs of internal and external customers. Demonstrated leadership and teaming skills especially with geographically dispersed teams.
• Works effectively in an open, consensus-oriented, team environment. Results-oriented with an emphasis on achieving team performance.
• Demonstrate ability to cope with stress and maintain a pleasant and cooperative…