Director, Regulatory

Role Overview

• Serve as CSA’s primary representative to AHRI, participating in relevant committees, working groups, councils, and task forces.
• Coordinate CSA’s input into AHRI policy positions, standards development, certification discussions, and regulatory responses.
• Ensure CSA’s perspectives are reflected in AHRI’s advocacy efforts, technical deliberations, and regulatory submissions.
• Build strong relationships with AHRI leadership, member companies, technical committees, and policy teams.
• Communicate AHRI developments, decisions, and emerging issues back into CSA’s product, engineering, and strategy teams.
• Act as a key point of contact with federal (DOE, EPA), state, and regional regulatory bodies.
• Monitor proposed regulations and code changes related to refrigerants, efficiency, building codes, electrification, and decarbonization.
• Develop CSA’s regulatory positions and partner with Government Affairs to influence policy direction.
• Represent CSA in meetings, hearings, workshops, and industry coalitions.
• Translate regulatory requirements and AHRI developments into actionable guidance for engineering, product management, supply chain, and commercial teams.
• Lead regulatory readiness planning for major transitions (e.g., refrigerant phasedown, minimum efficiency changes, certification updates, test procedure changes).
• Assess business impacts and develop mitigation strategies across CSA’s business units (RES, LCML, DLS/VRF, Applied, Energy Solutions).
• Brief CSA leadership on regulatory risks, timelines, and strategic implications.
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of HVAC regulatory frameworks, codes, test procedures, certification requirements, and industry standards.
• Evaluate feasibility, cost, and competitive implications of regulatory outcomes.
• Support engineering teams in certification, testing, standards adoption, and product compliance.
• Provide regulatory input into long‑term product roadmaps, technology strategy, and portfolio planning.
• Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Legal/Compliance, Government Affairs, Operations, and Program Management.
• Coordinate CSA’s contributions to industry consensus-building through AHRI and other associations.
• Ensure timely communication of regulatory and AHRI updates across all CSA organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, policy, law, or environmental science
• 10 + years of regulatory policy, engineering, and/or environmental standards experience
• 10 + years of experience working with National regulatory bodies

Benefits

• Health Care benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; wellness incentives
• Retirement benefits
• Time Off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty; military leave; purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance