Executive Project Manager - Data Centers

Trane Technologies creates comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation. The Executive Project Manager, Data Centers, leads the end-to-end execution of large, strategic customer projects, coordinating engineering, factory operations, logistics, sales, quality, and regional execution teams while managing customer relationships, risks, schedules, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary post-order liaison for large, strategic customers, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and internal execution
• Own the customer relationship throughout project execution, providing transparency, responsiveness, and a consistently high-quality experience
• Proactively identify and manage risks, escalations, and scope changes to protect delivery schedules, quality, and customer satisfaction
• Coordinate across project engineering, factory operations, logistics, sales, and regional execution teams to ensure accurate and timely information flow
• Ensure technical, commercial, and logistical requirements are captured, validated, and communicated before and during production
• Serve as the execution lead for the customer, enabling fast decision-making and issue resolution
• Oversee the full equipment order lifecycle, including:Order readiness and factory intakeProduction coordination and release Storage, staging, and shipment planningField deployment and handoff
• Ensure storage, handling, and shipment requirements meet internal standards and customer-specific obligations
• Ensure all required documentation—technical, commercial, regulatory, and customer-specific—is complete, accurate, and delivered on time
• Partner with quality teams to ensure customer requirements and quality standards are met or exceeded
• Drive consistency in execution practices across projects and regions
• Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, and execution risks, and provide structured feedback to improve future project delivery
• Support the development of repeatable best practices for managing large, complex customer programs in the data center space

Requirements:

• Significant experience managing large, complex, customer-facing projects or programs, ideally in data centers, critical infrastructure, HVAC, or industrial equipment environments
• Strong leadership and coordination skills across cross-functional teams, including engineering, operations, logistics, sales, and field execution
• Proven ability to manage high-value customer relationships and serve as a trusted point of contact for strategic accounts
• Experience overseeing projects from order intake through manufacturing, shipment, deployment, and final handoff
• Strong understanding of project execution disciplines, including risk management, escalation handling, schedule coordination, and quality assurance
• Ability to manage technical, commercial, and logistical requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• High attention to detail, especially related to documentation, compliance, and execution readiness
• A continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve customer outcomes
• Ability to work effectively across regions and maintain consistency in execution for complex customer programs