
Manufacturing Engineer Manager
Regal Rexnord · East Aurora, NY
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $115k–$156k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 75+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at Regal Rexnord (industrial) in East Aurora, NY.
- They ask for
- 75+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, OEE, Root cause, Automation, Capacity planning
- Base pay
- $115k–$156k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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About the role
Key Responsibilities
- ◆Lead, coach, and develop Manufacturing Engineers while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- ◆Partner with Commercial, Design Engineering, Operations, Product Management, and Quality teams to support new product introductions, customer growth opportunities, and manufacturing readiness, ensuring successful product launches and scalable production processes.
- ◆Drive process improvements that enhance safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and cost performance.
- ◆Lead Continuous Improvement and waste elimination initiatives that drive operational excellence and support business growth.
- ◆Manage capital projects, equipment installations, and technology upgrades to improve manufacturing capability and efficiency.
- ◆Support capacity planning, labor optimization, and manufacturing readiness to meet current and future business demands.
- ◆Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions to resolve manufacturing, process, and quality issues.
- ◆Establish and maintain manufacturing standards, work instructions, and process documentation to ensure consistent and efficient operations.
- ◆Monitor and improve key manufacturing metrics, including productivity, quality, OEE, throughput, scrap, and cost performance.
qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
- ✓7+ years of manufacturing engineering experience.
- ✓3+ years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
- ✓Strong Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement experience.
- ✓Proven project management, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
- ✓Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across functions
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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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Delevan has been a trusted leader in high reliability electronic components for more than 75 years. As the world's only manufacturer with Mil-PRF-39010 Level 'S' accreditation, Delevan designs and manufactures inductors, coils, transformers, chokes, and resolvers serving aerospace, defense, industrial, automation, and commercial markets worldwide. Delevan is part of Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX), a global leader in motion control and power transmission solutions.
Position Overview
The Manufacturing Engineering Manager is a key member of the site leadership team responsible for leading the Manufacturing Engineering function and advancing operational excellence through innovation, continuous improvement, and people development. This role builds and develops a high-performing engineering team while partnering with Commercial, Design Engineering, Operations, Product Management, and Quality to optimize manufacturing processes, enhance safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance, and support the site's long-term growth and success.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle or operate equipment, and communicate with employees throughout the facility. The employee may occasionally be required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or reach while supporting manufacturing operations, equipment evaluations, and process improvement activities. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds. This position requires frequent movement between office and manufacturing environments
Work Environment
This position operates in both office and manufacturing environments. While in production areas, the employee may be exposed to moderate noise levels, moving machinery, airborne particles, and varying temperatures. Appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is required when entering designated manufacturing areas.
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.
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, an
