Quality Supervisor
About the job
- High school diploma or equivalent with extensive on-the-job experience.
- Three or more years of direct manufacturing inspection experience.
- Five or more years in a quality control or quality assurance role within a manufacturing environment.
- Two or more years of formal supervisory or team lead experience.
- Proven experience mentoring junior inspectors or leading shift handoffs.
- ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) or Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
- Awareness of Lean Manufacturing/5S basics, ISO 9001, or IATF 16949.
- The role is safety-sensitive and may require passing additional drug screening.
- Directly supervise plant quality inspectors across lines or departments.
- Plan and assign daily work schedules to ensure inspection coverage for all production areas.
- Balance inspector workload based on production demand, risk level, and staffing availability.
- Monitor team attendance, punctuality, overtime, and shift handoff effectiveness.
- Lead shift start-up meetings with inspectors to review priorities, quality alerts, and problem areas.
- Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and support to inspectors on inspection expectations and decision-making.
- Set clear performance expectations for inspectors regarding accuracy, timeliness, discipline, and reporting.
- Conduct regular one-on-one coaching and feedback sessions with inspectors.
- Complete performance evaluations and document employee performance issues or achievements.
- Support corrective action, disciplinary steps, and recognition programs for team members as needed.
- Identify skill gaps and coordinate cross-training to improve team flexibility.
- Develop backup coverage plans for absences, vacations, and high-volume production periods.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and training new inspectors.
- Build a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, and quality ownership within the inspection team.
- Oversee all in-process, first-piece, last-piece, and final inspection activities in the plant.
- Ensure inspectors follow approved inspection plans, sampling methods, control plans, and work instructions.
- Verify inspection results are recorded accurately, completely, and in a timely manner.
- Ensure nonconforming material is properly identified, segregated, documented, and escalated.
- Review inspection findings daily to identify repeat issues, trends, and missed opportunities for prevention.
- Coordinate inspector assignments to support new launches, engineering changes, containment activity, and customer-specific requirements.
- Ensure inspection coverage is aligned with production schedules, critical operations, and customer risk.
- Standardize inspection methods and judgment criteria across all inspectors to improve consistency.
- Audit inspector performance on the floor to confirm compliance with procedures and standard work.
- Drive timely communication of defects and quality concerns to production supervision and other stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for inspector-related quality issues on the production floor.
- Escalate significant quality concerns to quality management, engineering, production leadership, and other functions as needed.
- Ensure smooth communication between shifts so open issues, suspect material, and containment actions are handed off effectively.
- Lead response coordination when inspectors identify major nonconformances or process deviations.
- Support daily production meetings by providing inspection status, quality issues, and staffing updates.
- Partner with manufacturing leaders to resolve conflicts related to product acceptance or inspection disposition.
- Train inspectors on defect recognition, inspection techniques, measurement methods, documentation, and escalation procedures.
- Maintain training records and verify inspectors are qualified for assigned areas and tasks.
- Assess inspector competency through observation, layered audits, and periodic verification checks.
- Update inspectors on revised procedures, engineering changes, customer requirements, and quality alerts.
- Promote standard work and consistency in how inspections are performed and documented.
- Track inspector productivity, accuracy, error rates, and compliance to standard work.
- Monitor department KPIs related to inspection effectiveness, escapes, rework, scrap, and response time.
- Investigate inspection misses, documentation errors, or breakdowns in process discipline.
- Implement corrective actions when inspection performance does not meet expectations.
- Enforce safety rules, PPE requirements, and good housekeeping standards for the inspection team.
- Work closely with production, manufacturing engineering, supplier quality, and operations teams to address plant quality issues.
- A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a related technical field is preferred.
About the company
Trane Technologies focuses on climate innovation by delivering sustainable HVAC and refrigeration solutions through its Trane and Thermo King brands. It helps buildings, homes, and transportation achieve higher energy efficiency with high-performance climate control equipment and ongoing maintenance services. The company differentiates itself by offering an integrated portfolio of energy-efficient products and service contracts across both HVAC and refrigeration, backed by a commitment to sustainability. Its goal is to lower energy use and carbon emissions for customers while supporting a healthier planet.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1871
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What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 bookings rose 39%, signaling strong demand before 2027 deliveries.
- Stellar Energy acquisition on February 17, 2026 expands data-center and energy infrastructure reach.
- September 2026 Nigeria and Charlotte partnerships deepen distribution, service, and brand lock-in.
What critics are saying
- Aldrich and Murray asbestos Chapter 11 stays unresolved, with hearings starting August 2026.
- HVAC antitrust litigation in Michigan names Trane in 2026 price-fixing claims.
- Data-center growth depends on volatile GPU standards; misreading NVIDIA roadmaps traps inventory.
What makes Trane Technologies unique
- Trane's September 2026 AI suite links maintenance, controls, and thermal optimization.
- LiquidStack CDU 2.X targets AI data centers with architecture-agnostic liquid cooling.
- Trane's cold-climate heat pumps run to -20°F after 18,000 testing hours.
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Health Insurance
401(k) Company Match
401(k) Retirement Plan
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Family Planning Benefits
Fertility Treatment Support
Professional Development Budget
Conference Attendance Budget
Hybrid Work Options
Wellness Program
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↑ 15%Trane Technologies has launched residential cold climate heat pumps under its Trane and American Standard brands, marking the company's first such products for the residential market. The systems maintain full heating capacity at temperatures down to 5°F and continue operating in conditions as low as -20°F whilst providing year-round heating and cooling. The heat pumps exceeded performance requirements set by the US Department of Energy's Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge. They underwent nearly 18,000 hours of field testing across homes in Minnesota, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Texas, where outdoor temperatures reached -21°F. Both systems feature variable speed operation with compressors that adjust in 0.1% increments, delivering supply air temperatures up to 110°F whilst reducing reliance on backup electric heat.
JMG Clima and Trane Technologies showcase cooling solutions at Big 5 Construct Nigeria 2026. by thevision September 29, 2026 5 JMG Limited, through its Clima division and in partnership with Trane Technologies, participated in the just-concluded Big 5 Construct Nigeria 2026, held from 22 to 24 September 2026 in Lagos. The exhibition brought together key players, professionals and stakeholders across Nigeria's construction and building industry, giving JMG Clima and Trane the opportunity to showcase their partnership and engage directly with industry professionals, prospective customers, existing partners and other stakeholders. The partnership reflects both organisations' commitment to providing reliable, energy-efficient and effective cooling solutions for residential, commercial and industrial applications. At the exhibition, JMG Clima showcased Trane's air conditioning and cooling solutions, giving visitors and industry professionals the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how dependable, energy-efficient cooling systems can support comfort, performance and efficiency across different building and project types. The combined JMG Clima and Trane team engaged with visitors throughout the exhibition, providing technical and product information and discussing their specific cooling requirements. Beyond showcasing solutions, the exhibition served as a platform for JMG Clima to connect with industry minds, exchange ideas and gain valuable insights into the evolving needs of the construction and building sector. Through conversations with visitors and other exhibitors, the team was able to better understand the growing demand for reliable, energy-efficient cooling solutions and the expectations of businesses and developers in the market. The event also provided an avenue to strengthen existing business relationships while creating opportunities to establish new connections with potential customers, partners and stakeholders across the HVAC and construction sectors. It also generated new business leads, which have been shared with the Trane and JMG Clima Sales teams for follow-up. These engagements further reinforced JMG's approach of combining quality equipment with the technical expertise, support and customer-focused service required to deliver sustainable solutions. The partnership between JMG Clima and Trane Technologies remains focused on bringing world-class cooling technology closer to businesses in Nigeria and supporting projects with solutions designed around their specific requirements. JMG Clima's participation at Big 5 Construct Nigeria 2026 therefore went beyond product exhibition. It demonstrated the value of the JMG Clima and Trane partnership in connecting technology, technical expertise and industry knowledge to help businesses achieve more efficient and reliable cooling solutions.
LiquidStack CDU 2.X brings Flexible cooling to AI and HPC data centers. September 29, 2026 Press play to listen to this content SWORDS, Ireland, Sept. 29, 2026 - Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator, today at Yotta 2026 announced the release of the LiquidStack CDU 2.X platform, an architecture-agnostic coolant distribution unit (CDU) designed to provide the cooling performance and deployment flexibility required for rapidly evolving AI infrastructure. The new platform helps reduce redesign risk and simplify deployment for data center operators and reflects Trane Technologies' continued investment in advanced thermal management solutions for high-density data center environments. As the GPU landscape continues to shift and accelerate, flexibility has become critical for both the short and long-term viability of AI, high-performance computing and hyperscale data centers. This new platform's single CDU design solves for this need by supporting today's industry-leading AI hardware and emerging solutions alike. With flow capability of up to 3750 lpm at 3.5 bar, CDU 2.X is designed to meet the cooling performance of today's GPU platforms while providing available headroom for next-generation platforms as rack densities increase. "Operators need cooling infrastructure that can adapt as GPU platforms and rack densities evolve," said Scott Smith, General Manager of LiquidStack, Trane Technologies. "CDU 2.X combines the performance and flexibility customers need today with the headroom to prepare for what comes next, allowing them to configure cooling around their facility and deployment strategy rather than designing the facility around the CDU." Key features of the CDU 2.X include: * Broad architecture compatibility: Designed to support multiple current and emerging AI silicon platforms from a common CDU architecture. * Simplified deployment: An ultra-low-harmonics VFD architecture is designed to address harmonic distortion at the source, reducing the need for additional power-quality components and simplifying system architecture and deployment. * Configured around your facility: Flexible control valve, power-feed and redundancy options enable CDU 2.X to be configured around different facility and deployment architectures. * Flexible distribution architecture: End-of-row and rack-adjacent deployment support provides operators with greater flexibility to address increasing rack densities and future architectures. * Performance headroom for next-generation AI: Designed to support next-generation GPU platforms, including NVIDIA Vera Rubin and beyond. * Flexible power architecture: Dual-feed A/B and automatic transfer switch options enable operators to configure CDU 2.X around different facility resiliency requirements. * Designed for high-efficiency operation: Lower approach temperatures and facility inlet temperatures up to 45°C support efficient liquid cooling system architectures. The announcement comes on the heels of the commercial availability of the LiquidStack GigaModular CDU platform, now with an expanded 14 MW of capacity. Trane Technologies' liquid cooling portfolio, including LiquidStack solutions, gives data center operators greater flexibility in how they deploy and scale next-generation liquid cooling infrastructure. The LiquidStack CDU 2.X from Trane Technologies is available for pre-order now, with shipments beginning in the second quarter of 2027. About LiquidStack LiquidStack - a Trane Technologies brand - is a global leader in advanced liquid cooling for scalable AI infrastructure, delivering future-ready cooling architectures designed for next-generation GPU platforms. Built to support hyperscale AI growth, LiquidStack solutions enable operators to deploy, scale, and optimize high-density AI infrastructure with confidence. Nvidia may be buying Hugging Face, but AMD will soon have an AI software company... Across hyperscale data centers, the limiting factor is no longer how many accelerators can be... "AI will kill us all." That's the mantra we've heard repeatedly this month from researchers... One neocloud traversing the AI inference landscape that you might want to keep an eye... For the past couple years, companies have been treating the high demand and explosive growth... OpenAI says one of its AI systems has solved a math problem that has stumped...
Tepper Sports & Entertainment announces Trane Technologies as Cornerstone Partner. September 29, 2026 Tepper Sports & Entertainment (TSE) has announced that Trane Technologies has been named a Cornerstone Partner, extending a long-term commitment to the future of Bank of America Stadium. The company will serve as the exclusive Official Climate Technology Partner and an Official Sustainability Partner of both the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC. The designation places Trane Technologies among a select group of Cornerstone Partners and reflects the company's deep ties to the Carolinas. Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator with more than 45,000 employees around the world, maintains its North American headquarters in Davidson, North Carolina and employs more than 4,600 employees across North Carolina and South Carolina. The announcement builds on a relationship that began in 2018 when the organizations first worked together on a comprehensive upgrade to Bank of America Stadium's climate and cooling systems to improve fan comfort, indoor air quality and energy efficiency. "Trane Technologies has been a trusted partner for many years, and we're excited to have them play an even greater role as we continue the transformation of Bank of America Stadium," said Kristi Coleman, Tepper Sports & Entertainment CEO. "Their decision to become a Cornerstone Partner reflects the strength of our relationship, the value they bring to this project and a shared vision for what it means for our fans, our region and future generations." Trane Technologies will become the presenting partner of the 300-Level Silver Club at Bank of America Stadium in 2029, encompassing more than 50,000 square feet of premium hospitality space and four adjacent club destinations across the level. As part of the stadium's ongoing transformation, the company is also leading the upgrade of the venue's HVAC infrastructure systems and controls to continue to improve comfort, efficiency and performance throughout the stadium. "Bank of America Stadium is a powerful economic and community asset for the Carolinas, and we're honored to serve as a Cornerstone Partner to support its next chapter," said Dave Regnery, chair and CEO of Trane Technologies. "We believe innovation can help shape a more sustainable future, and we look forward to continuing our support of this important venue and its transformation, providing advanced climate technology that helps enhance stadium comfort, efficiency and performance for years to come." Another key component of the partnership is the continuation of the STEM Stadium of the Future Challenge, a 10-week program that empowers North and South Carolina high school students to dream big and design the next generation of sports venues. Challenged to envision what an NFL-style stadium built for their school could look like, students use STEM skills to create innovative concepts that blend sustainability, technology, fan experience, accessibility and school pride. Supported by mentors from Trane Technologies, teams construct scale models of their designs and present them before a panel of industry leaders, competing for Panthers Charities and Trane Technologies Foundation grants that help advance STEM education in their schools.
JMG, Trane push smarter air conditioning as Nigeria's building boom gathers pace. With the continuous shift in Nigeria's skyline, another demand is quietly growing with it: how to keep the country's expanding commercial, industrial and residential spaces comfortable without adding unnecessarily to the cost of running them. That is bringing renewed attention to cooling and climate-control systems as construction and industrial activity gather pace across the country. At The Big 5 Construct Nigeria 2026 in Lagos, JMG Limited, through its Clima division, and in partnership with Trane Technologies, is highlighting the growing need for cooling systems that deliver both reliable performance and greater energy efficiency. JMG Limited is the official distributor of Trane air conditioning solutions, delivering leading air conditioning solutions for residential, commercial and industrial projects. Vineeth Vijayan, Sales Leader, Nigeria and Ghana, Trane Air Conditioning, said the market for cooling and climate control is receiving increasing attention as development accelerates. "Buildings are going up, left, right and centre, and these buildings require cooling, specialised kinds of cooling and commercial cooling," Vijayan said, noting that Trane has solutions across different cooling requirements. For Idoko Jonahs Adejoh, Business Development Manager, HVAC, JMG Limited, however, the conversation goes beyond installing cooling equipment to consider what it will cost to operate over time. He said JMG Clima's partnership with Trane Technologies is helping to provide HVAC systems that are not only designed to cool spaces, but also to improve energy efficiency. "JMG Clima has partnered with Trane Technologies to provide heating, ventilation and cooling systems to Nigeria, not just cooling systems, but cooling systems that are energy efficient," Adejoh said. He added that while some energy-efficient systems may require a higher initial investment, the long-term savings can make them worthwhile. "The initial investment into this might be a bit high, but in the long run, it cuts down on your energy consumption, giving you good value for your investment," he said. The point is increasingly relevant to businesses where the cost of powering and maintaining facilities can weigh heavily on daily operations. JMG's relationship with Trane also provides customers with local support across the sales and after-sales process, according to Vijayan. "Customers are benefiting not really only on the sales aspect, but also on the after-sales aspect," he said. As more buildings rise across Nigeria, the cooling industry is facing a market that is not only asking for comfort, but demanding efficiency, reliability and value over the life of the equipment. And perhaps that is the bigger story emerging from the construction sector: the future of a building will be judged not only by how well it is built, but by how intelligently it operates. [wpadcenter_ad id='745970' align='none']