
Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations
Regal Rexnord · Milwaukee, WI
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Production
- Travel
- 50%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 16 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level production role at Regal Rexnord (industrial) in Milwaukee, WI. P&L Leadership - Business Partner.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Value stream mapping, Root cause, Automation
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage · about 50% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Wisconsin: typical posted base $118k–$178k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 23 production engineer openings in Wisconsin, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 22 other live production postings in Wisconsin.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (10+ vs 7+)
Typical $118k–$178k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 7+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 52%
- Team leadership 48%
- ✓ Root cause 35%
- Six Sigma 26%
- ✓ Value stream mapping 26%
- EHS / safety 22%
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This plant: Regal Rexnord in Milwaukee
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Full description from Regal RexnordAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree from an Accredited University
- ✓10+ years manufacturing operations experience; including plant management with experience from a best-in-class manufacturer
- ✓5+ years leadership experience positions within Continuous Improvement and/or Operations
- ✓Proven successful applications of multiple CI tools: 80/20, Value Stream Mapping, 6S, Flow, Standard Work, Visual Management, & Problem Solving
- ✓Strong operational and financial acumen, executive presence, and the ability to lead multiple locations
- ✓Critical thinking skills to properly identify problem area & potential solutions
- ✓Demonstrates the Regal Rexnord Values; Integrity, Responsibility, Diversity, Engagement & Inclusion, Customer Success, Innovation with Purpose, Continuous Improvement, Performance, Passion to Win, and Sense of Urgency
- ✓Must be able to travel at least 50% of the time domestically as required
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Advanced degree (MS Engineering, MBA, etc.)
- ✓Multi-Site Management Experience
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Work Model: You’ll work in a hybrid model, onsite at your designated Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week (Monday–Thursday), with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days, including Friday.
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The Couplings Division, a global business within the Industrial Powertrain Solutions Segment of Regal Rexnord, is seeking a Senior Director of Operations for its US Couplings business. This is a critical role to both create and drive a growth-focused operations strategy.
Reporting to the Division President, this Operations Director will lead operations across seven U.S.-based plants, bring a strong execution mindset, and serve as a key member of the Division leadership team. Within each site, this leadership position will drive the discipline of SQDC (safety, quality, delivery, cost-competitiveness), to allow the division to grow top line revenue growth and bottom-line profitability. The leader will develop and implement long and short-term strategic plans to meet Division Targets to Improve (TTIs), drive significant plant Key Performance Indicator (KPI) improvements, partnering closely with the site leadership teams while deploying the application of the Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS) which includes 80/20 methodologies and Continuous Improvement.
Operational Excellence & Effective Problem Solving
- •Lead the US Couplings Operations team to deliver on Annual Operating Plan (AOP), monthly, quarterly, and annually.
- •Set and achieve short and long-term SQDCG and financial objectives by implementing a strategic vision that is broken into actionable strategies and tactics. Direct activities across all plants, providing leadership to Production, Quality, Purchasing, Human Resources and Finance. Knows what good looks like and has the ability to coach and develop a leadership team.
- •Ensures accountability and enables the predictability of the outcomes of each plant. Determine root cause of delivery, quality or other issues quickly and effectively put counter-measures in place to support.
- •Lead and drive the Regal Rexnord Business System which includes 80/20 and Continuous Improvement for US Couplings. Skilled and experienced in decomposing a strategic vision into actionable strategies and tactics, that can be cascaded to every manufacturing facility. Drive a CI mindset, with clear future factory visions, to significantly improve productivity and efficiency across all plants and drive employee engagement.
- •Establish and sustain strong plant floor visual and daily management, GEMBA culture, problem solving methodologies and lean flow.
- •Develops controls and critically reviews results of operation in reference to planned objectives.
P&L Leadership - Business Partner
- •Ability to work as a member of the leadership team to develop and communicate a future vision for the business.
- •Partners with the leadership team on the overall strategy of the business, supports the establishment of an X-matrix, and drives policy deployment initiatives, aligned to operations with urgency and a high say/do.
- •Responsible for synthesizing action plans, timelines and budgets for project and product goals and adjusting these plans accordingly to effectively respond to changing demands of the business .
Talent Management
- •Develop a high performance team by engaging, coaching and developing team members, and by driving accountability and ownership at all levels. Builds a team where all site leaders are top talent, with a strong say/do and continuous improvement mindset.
- •Serve as an advocate for our top talent, building strong succession plans to enable increased velocity, be a champion of promoting diversity and inclusion in and across the organization.
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, al
