
Senior Manager, Plant Manager
Regal Rexnord · Charlotte, NC
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Regal Rexnord (industrial) in Charlotte, NC. Own full site P&L responsibility, including budgeting and demonstrating strong understanding of cost structure, margins, ROI, and operational levers.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Value stream mapping, Automation, SAP
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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How this role compares
Against 12 other live production postings in North Carolina.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
Typical $98k–$145k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 46%
- Team leadership 46%
- ✓ Automation 31%
- Six Sigma 23%
- ✓ Value stream mapping 23%
- Root cause 23%
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Stands out: this posting asks for SAP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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How to get in at this plant
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Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Regal Rexnord
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Bring proof to the interview
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This plant: Regal Rexnord in Charlotte
1 other open role at this site.
- 2nd Shift Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
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Key Responsibilities
- ◆Own full site P&L responsibility, including budgeting and demonstrating strong understanding of cost structure, margins, ROI, and operational levers.
- ◆Lead all manufacturing operations to achieve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Growth ( SQDCG ) objectives .
- ◆Drive operational excellence through the Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS), Lean principles, and continuous improvement .
- ◆Evaluate and prioritize capital investments to support growth, scalability, and operational excellence.
- ◆Build, coach, and develop a high-performing leadership team while establishing strong succession plans.
- ◆Deliver financial commitments through productivity, inventory, cost reduction, and operational efficiency initiatives.
- ◆Foster a culture of safety, accountability, engagement, and customer focus .
- ◆Reinforce a strong say/do culture by delivering on commitments and holding leaders accountable for results.
- ◆Lead timely structured problem-solving and execution to achieve sustainable operational results.
- ◆Partner cross- functionally to support business growth, customer satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness.
- ◆Champion Regal Rexnord Core Values while developing future leaders and organizational capability.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering , Operations Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or a related technical field. Advanced degree is desired.
- ✓Minimum 8 years of progressive manufacturing operations experience, including responsibility for Production, Quality, Supply Chain, Safety, Engineering, and/or Materials Management.
- ✓Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing salaried and hourly associates in a manufacturing environment.
- ✓Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and achieve sustainable improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Growth (SQDCG) performance.
- ✓Strong business and financial acumen with experience managing budgets, productivity initiatives, inventory, and cost reduction programs.
- ✓Working knowledge of Regal Rexnord Business System (or similar) principles and tools, including Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Visual Management, Flow, 6S, and structured problem solving.
- ✓Demonstrated strategic mindset with the ability to develop business cases that support key strategies, including product 80/20, ERP systems, value stream mapping, process improvement, and P&L impact.
- ✓Proven ability to build, coach, and develop high-performing teams while driving accountability, engagement, and succession planning in a changing environment.
- ✓Strong analytical, decision-making, and project management skills with a data-driven approach to problem solving.
- ✓Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- ✓Ability to lead through change, drive execution, and deliver results in a fast-paced, diverse product portfolio manufacturing environment.
- ✓Demonstrated commitment to Regal Rexnord Values, including Integrity, Responsibility, Continuous Improvement, Customer Success, Performance, and Passion to Win.
- ✓Demonstrated knowledge of ERP systems; SAP experience preferred.
Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a ‘U.S. Person ’, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.
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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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Position Overview
The Senior Plant Manager is responsible for leading all day-to-day manufacturing operations for Regal Rexnord’s Charlotte, NC facility within the Industrial Powertrain Solutions (IPS) Gearing Division. The facility is a ~160 employee site with an estimated annual revenue of $114M. This role drives plant performance through operational excellence, disciplined execution of the Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS), and development of a high-performing leadership team.
This position is accountable for achieving Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Growth (SQDCG) objectives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, associate engagement, accountability, and customer focus. The Senior Plant Manager partners with cross-functional leaders to execute site strategy, develop organizational capability, and deliver sustainable business results.
The Senior Manager, Plant Manager reports directly to the Senior Director, Operations for the Commercial Gearing Business Unit.
Benefits
- •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
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