At Trane Technologies™ 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.
Thrive at work and at home:
Inclusive Wellbeing Program, with resources to support your and your family’s physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being. Comprehensive learning and development solutions, designed to support our people in connecting and growing, including Higher education/Certification reimbursement.Sense of belonging & community through our Employee Resource Groups that foster our culture of inclusion.Volunteerism: 8 hours of paid time off per calendar year to volunteer with non-profit charitable organizations. The Trane Technologies Helping Hands Fund to support employees facing financial challenges due to unforeseen personal hardship.
Position Summary
The Program Manager / Associate Program Manager will manage simple to complex projects or phases of a project to ensure the completion of milestones within budget, tracks performance and progress of project against committed timeline. Projects could be NPD, Agile, NTP, Productivity, RTS or QR type. This role calls for collaboration with cross functional & multi-location teams to ensure that the projects are accomplished to a high quality, adhering to our standard processes, systems and project management principles, while remaining aligned with strategy and goals of the organization. The Program Manager / Associate program manager will also manage project portfolio/project agreements of the respective ETC teams. Resolves unique problems that could occur during the project to minimize delays & provide timely status updates to the executive leadership team.
Core Job Responsibilities
Fulfill the role of the Program Manager | Associate Program Manager and all that it entailsUnderstand project requirements, collaborate with project owners, leaders & cross functional teams across the globe for delivery of projects, by adhering to standard processes, systems and project management principles.Ensure the completion of project milestones/deliverables within committed Quality (Q), Delivery (D), Project cost (C) & Product cost (C), track performance and progress of project against committed QDC targetsAdhere to general project management principles of Project scope management, time management, cost management, risk management and stakeholder managementLead/Assist Annual Operating Planning (AOP) discussions with respective SBUs/NOEs and corporate teamsReport out project updates, risks and mitigations, productivity updates, QDC metrics, deployment efficiency, timesheet data, during the monthly Operations review meeting with ETC leadership teamCollaborate with PMO team members to continuously improve process, systems and develop/refine standard worksProject management of Strategic organization initiatives, deployment of BOS and coaching project teamsManage ETC PPM project portfolio / Project agreements of respective teams and publish the monthly billing data for the respective teamsHost monthly calibration meetings and publish monthly QDC metrics for the respective teams
Key Competencies:
Expertise in project management (Waterfall Model)Experience in Agile methodologies and/or scrum will be an added advantageProven leadership, coaching and mentoring skills with exceptional attention to detailSelf-starter with a desire to make a significant impact on the product development processAbility to drive program specific goals and actions to closure Develops and manages projects budgets, schedules & timelines Demonstrated ability to work with all levels of management Understands the impact of a project to the overall businessLeads from the front, coaches project team members, takes initiative and effects change.Being bold and Courageous to raise issues to upper managementDemonstrate patience during challenging circumstancesExcellent written and oral communication and facilitation skillsGood Interpersonal skills. Ability to learn and collaborate with cross cultural project teamsExceptional Influencing skills as project team members will not be one’s direct reportsManages & resolves conflictsProficiency in MS projectExposure to JIRA / Confluence
Minimum Qualifications:
4-year degree from an accredited institution. Technical degree in engineering or computer science preferred10+ years’ experience of overall functional experiencePMP certified project management professional or Certified Scrum Master (CSM + A-CSM, or CSP) with 5+ yrs. of Project management
Career Break:
We have a Relaunch Program for professionals looking to restart their careers after a break. If you come with a career break of at least 12 months and match the work experience requirements mentioned, you are welcome to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
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, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.