Senior Automation Controls Engineer

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it’s our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world’s challenges and see impactful possibilities?

Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what’s possible for a sustainable world.

On‑Site (5 days)

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient environments, it’s our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world’s challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future?

If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what’s possible for a sustainable world.

This is an exciting time for Trane Technologies as we grow in our Automation journey. We are looking for performance‑driven, innovative engineers who understand the importance of collaboration and customer focus, who understand the importance of automation and digitization standardization and help build world‑class laboratories to mature technologies before transitioning to the factory floor through internal and external partnerships. We are committed to a high level of investment in our capabilities to build world‑class facilities and attract talent globally.

The chosen candidates will shape Trane Technologies’ Future Factory Automation and Digitization Roadmap and direction to be a world‑class manufacturing operation.

We are seeking a highly skilled technical leader to drive the development of standardized supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) architecture and applications, OT network architecture and security, OT data architecture, OT/IT data flow and architecture, OT resiliency strategy and solutions, and OT artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and applications across all plants globally. In this role, you will lead these technical fields in collaboration with the IT and cybersecurity organizations to drive value into all plants globally.

You will also serve as a key contributor to the Ignition Council, influencing platform evolution and best practices globally.

• SBU Support & Standardization
• Partner with Strategic Business Units (SBUs) globally to successfully develop and deploy technology applications including Ignition applications (templates, UDTs, tag models, scripting libraries)
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert to define architecture, performance optimization, and security within Ignition environments
• Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and design reviews to ensure alignment and knowledge transfer with the plants
• Promote reuse of Ignition modules and libraries to minimize duplication and accelerate project delivery
• OEE Leadership & Council Involvement
• Lead or support the implementation of OEE tracking systems using Ignition modules
• Contribute to the Ignition Council by sharing field experience, providing feedback on features, and participating in strategic discussions
• Advocate for industry best practices in OEE metrics, downtime tracking, and operational visibility
• Scale OEE work to other subsystems such as smart torque systems, Digital MDI boards, and, in general, process monitoring and visualization using Ignition
• Technical Execution & Oversight
• Architect and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable Ignition‑based solutions (Perspective, MQTT, Tag Historian, etc.)
• Lead OT data architecture aligned to ISA‑95/88 standards and integrate with PLCs, ERP, MES, historians and cloud platforms
• Lead OT Network architecture and plant asset connectivity
• Lead artificial intelligence (AI) applications within the manufacturing operation
• Lead OT resiliency including factory floor PC rationalization, eliminating…