VP, Enterprise Quality
Trane Technologies · Davidson, NC
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $305k–$398k
- Travel
- 30%
- Experience asked
- 15+ years
- Certification
- Black Belt preferred
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level quality role at Trane Technologies (industrial) in Davidson, NC. Build a proactive, prevention‑driven approach to quality, aligned with Trane Technologies’ growth, sustainability, and customer experience priorities.
- They ask for
- 15+ years · Black Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- PPAP, APQP, Supplier quality
- Base pay
- $305k–$398k
- Day to day
- about 30% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in North Carolina: typical posted base $98k–$146k. This one lists $305k–$398k.
Median of the low and high ends of 15 live postings that list pay, out of 38 quality engineer openings in North Carolina, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
North Carolina plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 37 other live quality postings in North Carolina.
- Base pay
- About 188% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (15+ vs 5+)
Typical $98k–$146k, from 14 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 63%
- ✓ New product launch 42%
- ✓ PPAP 42%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 39%
- Six Sigma 37%
- Lean 37%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Trane Technologies
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- The posting says about 30% travel. Between which sites?
- The posting mentions a Black Belt. Does the company sponsor certification?
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This plant: Trane Technologies in Davidson
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- Operational Excellence Leader, Residential HVAC · Lean / CI · Manager
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Job Summary
The VP, Enterprise Quality is the senior-most quality leader for Trane Technologies. Reporting to the SVP of Global Integrated Supply Chain, this role is responsible for defining the global quality strategy, establishing the enterprise quality management system, and driving quality excellence across all regions, SBUs, products, and manufacturing locations.
This leader will build global standards, governance, talent, and performance management systems across core elements of quality, including: quality control and assurance, supplier quality, APQP/PPAP, New Product Development (Design For Quality), early launch containment, warranty and field quality, customer experience feedback loops, and enterprise quality metrics.
This leader partners closely with Engineering, GISC functions, and customer‑facing teams such as Services and Field Operations to drive an integrated approach that connects customer experience, design intent, supplier performance, manufacturing execution, and lifecycle reliability.
requirements
are integrated from concept through launch.
- ✓Establish early launch containment and post‑launch learning loops.
Improve Field Quality and Customer Experience
- ✓Create strong connections between customer complaints, service data, warranty analytics, and factory processes.
- ✓Improve warranty performance and reduce related costs through systemic corrective action and predictive analytics.
- ✓Establish global feedback loops that translate customer pain directly into engineering and manufacturing action.
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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.
Learn about our benefits designed for you to Thrive at work and at home.
We boldly go.
Where is the work
Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.
VP, Enterprise Quality
Trane Technologies™ — Global Integrated Supply Chain (GISC)
At Trane Technologies™, and through our strategic brands 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 are a team that dares to look at the world’s toughest 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.
Enterprise Quality Strategy & Governance
- •Establish and own the Enterprise Quality Strategy that sets the long‑term vision for enterprise quality excellence.
- •Build a unified, global Quality Management System (QMS) with clear standards, processes, and accountability across all SBUs and regions.
- •Build a proactive, prevention‑driven approach to quality, aligned with Trane Technologies’ growth, sustainability, and customer experience priorities.
Improve Product, Supplier, and Manufacturing Quality
- •Oversee global quality performance across the full value chain: suppliers, manufacturing, engineering, and aftermarket.
- •Build proactive quality capabilities including mistake‑proofing, advanced quality planning, and early launch containment.
- •Lead enterprise‑wide initiatives to significantly reduce COPQ through improved design, supplier quality, manufacturing quality, and field performance.
- •Implement structured problem-solving and preventive methodologies to reduce rework, defects, warranty cost, and escapes.
- •Drive improvements in supplier qualification, incoming quality, and corrective action effectiveness.
- •Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Operations on shop‑floor quality systems, standard work, and ABC quality improvements.
Transform Quality through Advanced Digital Capability
- •Partner with the Supply Chain Digitization leader and the VP of AI for Business Transformation to implement advanced digital capabilities including:
- •Predictive and prescriptive quality analytics
- •Real‑time defect detection (IoT, computer vision)
- •Automated quality workflows and digital traceability
- •Expand AI‑enabled quality tools and machine‑learning models to support early defect detection and continuous improvement.
- •Lead the development of Quality Data Warehouse as part of the broader ISC data lake to enable standardized metrics, automated dashboards, and enterprise wide quality insights.”
- •Ensure enterprise data standards and conformed metrics enable high‑quality insights and decision-making.
Strengthen New Product Development (NPD) Quality
- •Partner with Engineering to embed quality into design through DFQ, risk assessment, and VOC integration.
- •Establish robust Design for Quality (DFQ) practices and ensure quality
Leadership, Talent & Culture
- •Champion quality as a core value that transcends job titles and is embraced across engineering, supply chain, operations, and field teams.
- •Build a global, high‑performing enterprise quality organization, with clear roles across regions, SBUs, and plants.
- •Strengthen quality competencies across inspection, problem‑solving, supplier quality, NPD quality, and digital quality.
- •Establish a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
What’s in it for you
Be a part of our mission. As a global climate innovator, sustainability and operational excellence are core to how we deliver value to our customers. Quality is foundational to our strategy, and as we scale for future growth, we are transforming ho