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Regal Rexnord
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.
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Regal Rexnord is seeking an Operations Manager to lead our Glendale, WI, gearing facility. This role has full responsibility for the operational, financial, and people performance of a manufacturing facility. This role provides hands-on leadership to a cross-functional team and is accountable for delivering strong Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Growth (SQDCG) results while driving continuous improvement and cultural excellence in alignment with the Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS).
This leader translates division strategy into disciplined execution, builds high-performing teams, and drives operational transformation to ensure sustainable growth, customer success, and profitability.
Scope & Leadership Responsibilities
Full plant responsibility for manufacturing operations, facilities, production planning, purchasing, materials management, supply chain, and associate leadership.
Direct leadership & partnership of functional leaders across Production, Continuous Improvement, Quality, Supply Chain, EH&S, Finance, and Human Resources.
Establishes clear performance expectations, operating rhythms, and accountability across the site.
Builds and sustains a high-performing leadership team with strong ownership, engagement, and a high say–do culture.
Creates a learning environment that emphasizes problem solving, change leadership, and continuous improvement.
Acts as a key leader within the Division, partnering closely with peer plants and central functions to deliver results.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
Champion a strong safety culture; ensure EH&S compliance and continuous improvement with safety as the top priority.
Lead plant-wide adoption of Lean and RBS principles, including: 80/20 analysis
Value Stream Mapping
6S
Lean flow and conversion
Visual Daily Management
Standard Work
Kanban / Replenishment systems
GEMBA leadership and structured root-cause problem solving (FMEA, RCA)
Establish and maintain effective daily, weekly, and monthly operating cadence.
Ensure predictable outcomes through disciplined execution, visual management, and rapid corrective action.
Drive productivity, reduce waste, compress lead times, and advance the future-state factory vision.
Business & Financial Leadership (P&L)
Own site-level P&L performance, including revenue, operating income, cost productivity, and cash.
Lead development and execution of Annual Operating Plan (AOP), capital plans, and site improvement priorities.
Deliver year-over-year cost productivity improvements (typically ~3% net of inflation).
Improve inventory turns and working capital through Lean execution and demand/supply alignment.
Translate division priorities into executable site-level plans with clear KPIs and ownership.
Talent, Culture & Engagement
Develop a performance-driven culture grounded in accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
Recruit, retain, coach, and develop leadership and salaried talent.
Build strong succession pipelines to support growth and leadership continuity.
Champion diversity, inclusion, and associate engagement.
Communicate performance, priorities, and progress clearly and consistently through leader forums and all-employee meetings.
Recognize achievement and model Regal Rexnord values daily.
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications.
The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail
Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com.
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Notification to Agencies : Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.
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