Directeur, Services d’ingénierie, Affaires réglementaires et Qualité

Job Responsibilities  Regulatory Affairs and Product Compliance  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.

New Product Development Quality and Product Lifecycle Quality  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.

Development and Certification Laboratories  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.

Cross-Functional and Business Leadership  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. People and Financial Leadership  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 ro