How Our Team at Trane Supply Creates Pathways for STARs

Описание: Discover how our Trane Supply team is championing skills-based hiring and creating meaningful career pathways for STARs—workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes. Employees share their journeys from frontline roles into leadership positions, highlighting how mentorship, training, and development help unlock long-term career growth.

At Trane Technologies, STARs represent more than one‑third of our entire workforce, demonstrating the value of tapping into diverse experience and practical skillsets. Their impact drives innovation, improves customer service, and strengthens our operations.

This commitment is amplified through our partnership with Opportunity@Work, an organization transforming how employers recognize talent. Their vision: a labor market where skills—not degrees—open doors.

Together, we are breaking down outdated hiring barriers, expanding career mobility and helping STARs reach their full potential. This is what it looks like to tear the paper ceiling and build a more inclusive, skilled and future-ready workforce.

Key Moments:
0:00 Discover how we create pathways for STARs
0:24 How Shelby Davis, STAR*, now Store Manager, was able to tear the paper ceiling
0:46 Regional General Manager Ryan Dempsey's, shares his background as a STAR*
0:57 How Store Manager Terry Johnson, STAR* leveraged his transferable skills at Trane Supply
1:11 Upskilling and development opportunities for STARs
2:07 Utilizing STARs' skills for a growing workforce

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