Operations Manager

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

• •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.

• •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.

• •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.

• •Strong Lean, Continuous Improvement, and RBS capability
• •Solid financial acumen with experience owning site-level P&L
• •Data-driven problem solver with strong operational judgment
• •Effective communicator with presence, urgency, and ownership
• •Ability to lead through complexity and drive disciplined execution
• •Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• •Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred

• •Authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship

Leadership Expectations & Values

Demonstrates Regal Rexnord values: Integrity, Responsibility, Diversity, Engagement & Inclusion, Customer Success, Innovation with Purpose, Continuous Improvement, Performance, Passion to Win, and Sense of Urgency.

• •Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• •Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• •Paid Time Off and Holidays
• •401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• •Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• •Paid Leaves
• •Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

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 co