Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs
Regal Rexnord · Rosemont, IL
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $247k–$385k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 15+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level quality role at Regal Rexnord (industrial) in Rosemont, IL. Aerospace, Defense & Regulated Customer Readiness.
- They ask for
- 15+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Root cause, FDA / GMP, Supplier quality, Automation
- Base pay
- $247k–$385k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Illinois: typical posted base $98k–$146k. This one lists $247k–$385k.
Median of the low and high ends of 36 live postings that list pay, out of 46 quality engineer openings in Illinois, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 45 other live quality postings in Illinois.
- Base pay
- About 178% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (15+ vs 4+)
Typical $96k–$132k, from 31 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 50%
- ✓ Root cause 43%
- ✓ Supplier quality 43%
- Team leadership 37%
- SPC 35%
- ✓ FDA / GMP 35%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Regal Rexnord in Rosemont
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Full description from Regal RexnordAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
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into executable operating controls.
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into processes for product safety, labeling, materials restrictions, certifications, agency requirements, customer obligations, and compliance evidence.
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into practical operating controls
- ✓Experience leading cross-functional workstreams across Operations, Quality Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Compliance, IT/Cybersecurity, and business leadership
- ✓Proven ability to influence senior leaders and divisional teams in a matrixed environment
- ✓Working knowledge of quality systems, corrective action, supplier quality, product compliance, regulated customer expectations, and continuous improvement methods
Qualifications
- ✓Master’s degree in related field
- ✓Experience supporting aerospace, defense, FAA-regulated, FAR/DFARS, FDA medical device, medical, data center, or similarly regulated customer environments
- ✓Experience in implementing quality governance, supplier quality improvements, product compliance processes, or operational excellence systems across multiple sites or divisions
- ✓Lean, Six Sigma, quality management, regulatory compliance, or related certifications
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Work Model: This role can be performed remotely from an approved location, with flexibility based on business needs and applicable requirements.
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Position Overview
Regal Rexnord is seeking a senior, business-minded quality, product compliance, and operational excellence leader to serve as Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs . Reporting to the Executive Vice President and President of the Automation and Motion Control (AMC) Segment, this role will support AMC by building and strengthening segment-level standards, governance, operating rhythms, and cross-divisional processes for quality, product compliance, operational execution, and regulated customer expectations.
This is a segment-level operations leadership role, not a traditional plant quality position, legal role, or government/regulatory affairs role. The role will enable AMC to move from division-by-division problem solving to a more consistent and repeatable segment model by translating quality, customer, regulatory, and compliance
Segment Quality, Product Compliance & Governance
- •Establish AMC segment governance for quality, product compliance, product safety, regulated-customer readiness, and operating standards.
- •Identify recurring quality, compliance, and regulatory risks and drive cross-divisional corrective and preventive actions.
Aerospace, Defense & Regulated Customer Readiness
- •Lead segment actions from AMC Aerospace and Defense maturity assessments.
- •Translate maturity recommendations into executable workstreams with Legal, Trade Compliance, IT, Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain.
- •Support practical approaches for regulated customer expectations, including FAA concepts, FAR/DFARS flow-downs, evidence, supplier readiness, recordkeeping, corrective action, traceability, change control, quality escapes, audits, and customer-specific obligations.
Quality Systems
- •Assess quality system maturity and strengthen common processes, metrics, management reviews, and visibility to significant quality events.
- •Set practical standards for root cause, corrective and preventive action, containment, effectiveness checks, and lessons learned.
Product Compliance
- •Strengthen AMC product compliance governance with product compliance, engineering, quality, supply chain, and legal teams.
- •Create a segment approach to translate
Supplier Quality
- •Set baseline supplier quality expectations and monitoring for high-risk suppliers, regulated programs, critical products, government programs, and compliance risks.
- •Align supplier obligations with customer commitments, including flow-downs, traceability, documentation, change management, source control, counterfeit-part risk, inspection, testing, and corrective actions.
Legal, Compliance & Risk Partnership
- •Partner with Legal and Compliance on quality, product compliance, regulated customer, supplier, and operational governance matters.
- •Support fact development, root cause investigation, corrective action planning, and implementation for significant quality, compliance, customer, supplier, or regulatory matters.
Leadership
- •Coach, develop, and elevate Division & Site leaders to build a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, capability building, and sustained execution.
- •Identify capability gaps and recommend practical resources, training, process, or governance solutions.
The successful candidate will have the following
- •A minimum of 15 years of experience across the following fields: Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Product Compliance, Engineering, and/or Operations
- •Bachelor’s degree in related field
- •Demonstrated experience building enterprise or segment-level standards, governance models, operating rhythms, and cross-functional accountability mechanisms
- •Strong business acumen and ability to translate legal, regulatory, customer, and compliance