Directeur, Services d’ingénierie, Affaires réglementaires et Qualité

Broan-NuTone•Hartford, WI

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a strategic, hands-on Director, Engineering Services & Regulatory Affairs to lead our global Engineering Services capabilities, global Regulatory Affairs team, New Product Development Quality and product lifecycle quality practices, and development and certification laboratories. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of engineering excellence, product safety, product reliability, market access, customer trust, and business growth. The successful candidate will define and strengthen the systems, standards, governance, processes, and technical capabilities that ensure quality is built into product design, validation, certification readiness, product changes, and lifecycle management. This leader will build a proactive engineering quality culture, translate complex regulatory and technical requirements into practical business guidance, and enable consistent engineering practices across the organization. The role partners closely with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Service, Customer Care, and Commercial teams. It collaborates with operational quality leaders at each manufacturing site to strengthen product quality, launch readiness, systemic issue resolution, and preventive actions. It is an opportunity to shape a global technical function, develop talent, improve innovation and certification readiness, and increase the organization's ability to identify and prevent risk before it reaches customers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, or a related technical field; an advanced degree is considered an asset.
10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Regulatory Affairs, Product Compliance, Engineering, Product Development, product lifecycle quality, laboratories, or a related technical function.
Experience in HVAC, ventilation, appliances, building products, electrical products, controls, industrial products, or another regulated product environment is strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of product lifecycle quality, design quality, risk management, development gates, certification processes, validation, and field quality feedback loops; experience collaborating with operational quality, manufacturing, and supplier quality teams is preferred.
Experience working with certification bodies, testing laboratories, regulatory agencies, standards organizations, technical committees, or external auditors.
Demonstrated ability to lead global or multi-site teams, develop technical talent, manage change, and influence cross-functional stakeholders without relying solely on authority.
Ability to translate complex technical, quality, and regulatory topics into clear business recommendations and enterprise-level trade-offs for senior leaders.
Experience managing operating budgets, capital plans, priorities, and resource allocation across multiple technical functions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; bilingual English and French capability is an asset for collaboration across Canadian and U.S. teams.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree is considered an asset.
Bilingual English and French capability is an asset for collaboration across Canadian and U.S. teams.

Responsibilities

Lead the global Regulatory Affairs function and ensure the organization understands and meets applicable product safety, energy efficiency, performance, labeling, environmental, and market access requirements.
Monitor emerging regulatory trends, building codes, certification requirements, and industry standards that may affect ventilation products, connected products, controls, laboratories, claims, and product roadmaps.
Translate new or changing requirements into clear, practical guidance for Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams across new product development, sustaining engineering, private-label programs, product changes, and market expansion.
Represent the company with certification bodies, testing agencies, standards organizations, auditors, regulatory stakeholders, industry forums, and technical committees.
Define, deploy, and continuously improve New Product Development Quality practices across the product lifecycle, from concept and development through validation, launch readiness, field performance, and end-of-life.
Establish design quality standards, product risk management routines, engineering quality KPIs, escalation processes, and decision rights that improve transparency, accountability, and speed of resolution.
Strengthen closed-loop product quality processes by connecting field data, customer feedback, warranty insights, manufacturing performance, supplier performance, and product development actions in partnership with operational quality and supplier quality owners.
Partner with site operational quality teams on systemic product issues, corrective actions, lessons learned, and preventive engineering actions.
Provide leadership for the development and certification laboratories, ensuring the right capabilities, methods, equipment, calibration processes, technical expertise, and capacity are in place to support business priorities.
Improve laboratory governance, test planning, data integrity, certification readiness, and alignment with Engineering, Product Management, Quality, and Regulatory Affairs.
Oversee R&D testing and validation and promote robust, repeatable test methods for ventilation performance, safety, reliability, sound, energy efficiency, controls, and certification requirements.
Build and execute laboratory capability and capital roadmaps that anticipate future technology, code, certification, and business needs while improving speed, reliability, and value to the organization.
Partner with Engineering and Product Management to embed quality, compliance, safety, reliability, validation, and certification thinking early in the product development process.
Collaborate with Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Supplier Quality to manage systemic risks, improve launch readiness, and drive sustainable corrective actions.
Support Commercial, Service, and Customer Care teams with clear technical and regulatory guidance on customer claims, product issues, field actions, and market requirements.
Influence senior leaders with fact-based recommendations, enterprise-level trade-offs, and a balanced view of customer, regulatory, technical, operational, and business risk.
Lead, coach, and develop a global, multi-site organization across Regulatory Affairs, laboratories, Engineering Services, and New Product Development Quality capabilities.
Create a culture of ownership, technical excellence, proactive risk management, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
Clarify roles, priorities, decision rights, performance expectations, and development plans while building succession and capability plans for critical roles.
Own operating expense and capital planning for the functions within the role, aligning investments, staffing, and technical capabilities with enterprise priorities.