Sr. Platform Systems Engineer

At Trane TechnologiesTM 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.

Sr Platform Systems Engineer - Job Description

Join our Platforms team as a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the deployment of systems engineering best practices in support of the Thermo King Americas business of Trane Technologies. The Sr Platform Systems Engineer works as part of a cross-functional team in the development of new Transport refrigeration and mobile HVAC system solutions.

The ideal candidate will leverage strong critical thinking and communication with deep product/application knowledge - providing strong technical leadership to ensure developed solutions satisfy product performance, quality, safety, delivery, and cost requirements. They will drive the best business solution based on requirements, technical readiness, and trade-offs. The candidate must work in physical, abstract, and conceptual domains-balancing the big picture while objectively evaluating multiple scenarios/solutions due to the usual ambiguity of balancing future technologies with practical limits. They will work to continuously identify, communicate, and manage risks to ensure project and platform success.

Responsibilities

This role will provide multi-disciplinary engineering technical leadership, utilizing systems engineering principles, tools, processes, and technical rigor.

• Stakeholder needs & requirements elicitation & analysis
• System requirements definition & decomposition to subsystems/modules
• System architecture & modular design definition
• Interdependency identification with consideration for emergent properties
• Concept trade-off facilitation and analysis
• System optimization while providing a holistic perspective of the system in its operating environment
• Technical complexity management
• Application of MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) methodologies and tools,
• Utilizing modeling and simulation in development activities
• Requirements & risk-based testing; verification & validation
• Risk Management
• Change Management
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering (or similar discipline).
• At least 5 years work experience developing complex mechanical and/or electrical systems.

Essential Competencies

• Strong experience developing and validating multi-disciplinary product systems (integration of mechanics, hydraulics, electronics, power transmission, fluids, etc.).
• Demonstrated technical leadership with systems-level engineering of complex mechanical/electrical systems.
• Strong experience with requirements management, architecture definition, DFMEAs, verification, and validation.
• Product architecture methods, functional analysis, and product family design.
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, communication, and project management skills required.
• Must be able to work on multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.

Supplemental Competencies

• Experience in refrigeration systems and components, such as engines, fans, compressors, power electronics, and control systems.
• Understanding of transportation, off-road agricultural, construction or HVAC equipment.
• Electrical hardware and power electronics experience.
• A demonstrated history of innovation, e.g. patent authorship.
• Experience with Six Sigma analysis and reporting tools: A3, 8D, Fishbone/5-whys etc.
• Knowledgeable in Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) practices/tools, and experience in applying it to the full engineering lifecycle.
• INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).

Target Base Compensation Range is $68,000 - $140,000 annually.

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, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.