Data Center Controls Engineering Leader - Remote opportunity

Trane Technologies is a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation. They are seeking a dynamic Controls Engineering Leader to build and lead a specialized controls engineering team responsible for designing, delivering, and supporting integrated thermal management and electrical monitoring systems for data center customers.

Responsibilities:

• Build, develop, and lead a specialized controls engineering team to support data center contracting opportunities and project execution
• Establish team structure, roles, processes, and performance expectations to create a high-performing engineering organization
• Recruit, mentor, and develop Controls Engineers, supporting both technical growth and leadership capability
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with sales teams to support the development of controls opportunities and customer solutions
• Assist with project scoping, technical approach development, and alignment of proposed solutions to customer requirements
• Participate in customer discussions and solution development meetings as a technical and operational leader
• Support pre-sale activities including estimating input, risk identification, and execution planning
• Help ensure proposed solutions are executable, competitive, and aligned with delivery capabilities
• Lead the engineering execution approach for controls projects, ensuring coordination across engineering, field teams, service, and project stakeholders
• Support delivery of integrated thermal management and electrical monitoring solutions within the broader data center infrastructure
• Provide leadership across major project milestones, including design, submittals, testing, commissioning, turnover, and service transition
• Help resolve project issues, technical challenges, and execution risks during delivery
• Ensure strong collaboration between the controls engineering team, field technicians, service teams, and customer stakeholders
• Provide leadership and direction to the controls engineering function while enabling the team to perform detailed technical work
• Oversee development of control drawings, logic diagrams, sequences of operation, and submittal packages
• Guide execution of PLC programming, SCADA configuration, controls integration, and system testing through the engineering team
• Ensure Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and commissioning support are effectively planned and executed
• Maintain oversight of system integration, controls application, and data delivery to enterprise systems and Network Operations Centers (NOCs)
• Establish and maintain standardized controls architectures, engineering templates, documentation practices, and workflows
• Implement repeatable processes for design, testing, validation, and project turnover
• Promote engineering quality, consistency, and constructability across projects
• Support alignment with customer cybersecurity and data-handling requirements
• Ensure seamless transition of commissioned systems into the service phase for long-term reliability and customer satisfaction

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred)
• 8–12 years of experience in controls engineering, automation, contracting, or related project delivery environments
• Proven experience building, leading, and developing technical teams in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment
• Strong understanding of controls systems, system integration, and project execution practices
• Experience supporting sales and helping develop complex project opportunities into executable solutions
• Demonstrated ability to lead across engineering, field operations, and customer stakeholders
• Strong project execution mindset, with the ability to balance technical quality, customer needs, and business objectives
• Excellent communication, leadership, and relationship management skills
• Data center or other mission-critical infrastructure experience
• Familiarity with major automation platforms such as Siemens, Tridium, Rockwell, or similar
• Team building and leadership
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Sales partnership and solution development
• Project execution and operational discipline
• Controls engineering oversight
• Standardization and process improvement
• Customer relationship management