HR Generalist

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Milwaukee, WI, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Energy • Renewable Energy
Create Your Better Tomorrow
The Role
Provides hands-on HR support across employee relations, performance and talent programs, recruiting, onboarding, employee transitions, leave and payroll matters, HR analytics, engagement initiatives, and compliance. Advises employees and managers, analyzes workforce data, supports HR reporting and process improvements, maintains confidential records, and partners with HR leadership, shared services, and centers of excellence. The role is hybrid and requires up to 10% regional travel.
Summary Generated by Built In
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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Position Summary 

The HR Generalist provides hands-on and consultative support to employees and managers across functional teams, including but not limited to Engineering and Product Management, within the Couplings and Gearing Divisions. Partnering with Division HR leadership, HR Centers of Excellence, and HR Shared Services, this role primarily supports employee relations, talent processes, HR analytics, and HR operations.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

  • Employee Support & Relations: Respond to inquiries and advise employees and managers on HR policies and processes; support performance improvement actions, investigations and conflict resolution; and identify effective solutions for workplace challenges under HR leadership guidance.
  • HR Programs: Coordinate performance management, compensation planning, talent review preparation, open enrollment, and engagement surveys, including communications, data validation, completion tracking.
  • Recruiting: Partner with Talent Acquisition and hiring managers on interviews, selection, and onboarding; coordinate internship, co-op, and early career program activities.
  • HR Operations: Advise employees and managers on employee transitions, offboarding, leave of absences, accommodations, and payroll matters. Partner with HR Shared Services and specialist teams to resolve issues, guide return-to-work planning Support reporting requirements and ensure accurate employee records and pay changes, consistent policy application, compliance, and confidentiality.
  • HR Analytics and Insights: Analyze headcount, turnover, hiring, engagement, leave, and other HR data to identify trends and emerging issues. Translate findings into actionable insights and recommendations for HR leadership, supporting workforce decisions and process improvements while ensuring data accuracy and confidentiality.
  • Engagement & Communications: Support engagement strategies and action plans, workplace culture initiatives, organization updates, leadership announcements, and Division and HR meeting materials.

Required Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or a related field.
  • 2–5 years of HR experience, including hands-on generalist activities and/or HR operations.
  • HR knowledge to include HR metrics, recruitment, employee relations, and HR compliance,
  • Ability to exercise sound judgment handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
  • Excellent listening, coaching, and verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong relationship-building and customer service skills. Credible, trusted, and influential with employees and managers at all levels.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills,  using data to inform decisions.
  • Highly organized,  including the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
  • Proficiency in HR systems and Microsoft Office, including a strength with Excel.
  • Ability to travel up to 10% within the region.

 
Preferred Qualifications 

  • Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Experience supporting professional or corporate functional teams and geographically dispersed employees in global matrix organizations within manufacturing or industrial environments.
  • Experience with Workday (HRIS) and Dayforce (payroll and Time & Attendance) Experience with payroll is a plus.
  • Familiarity with AI tools and Power BI to support HR analytics and process improvements.
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 and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.


Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [email protected]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity Posters
Notification to Agencies: Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or a related field
  • 2-5 years of HR experience, including hands-on generalist activities and/or HR operations
  • Knowledge of HR metrics, recruitment, employee relations, and HR compliance
  • Ability to exercise sound judgment and handle sensitive, confidential information with discretion
  • Excellent listening, coaching, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Strong relationship-building and customer service skills
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills using data to inform decisions
  • Strong organization and ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
  • Proficiency in HR systems and Microsoft Office, including strong Excel skills
  • Ability to travel up to 10% within the region
  • Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
  • Experience supporting professional or corporate functional teams and geographically dispersed employees in global matrix organizations within manufacturing or industrial environments
  • Experience with Workday and Dayforce; payroll experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with AI tools and Power BI for HR analytics and process improvements

Regal Rexnord Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Regal Rexnord and has not been reviewed or approved by Regal Rexnord.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes PPO and high-deductible/HSA options plus dental, vision, and prescription coverage, with FSA/HSA and wellness or tobacco-free incentives. These offerings are described consistently on the company’s careers pages.
  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is included alongside life and AD&D, plus short- and long-term disability coverage. Recent postings reiterate the 401(k) match as part of the standard package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and family leave, adoption assistance, and an Employee Assistance Program are part of the package. Several materials also reference floating holidays that complement core leave options.

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The Company
HQ: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
30,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1955

What We Do

At Regal Rexnord, our business purpose is to create a better tomorrow with sustainable solutions that power, transmit, and control motion. For us, this means creating innovative solutions while focused on both customer needs and our commitment to sustainability. You may not know it, but Regal Rexnord impacts your life every day. Our products enable the fans in HVAC systems that keep us comfortable; the power source that keeps smart buildings running; the agricultural and food service equipment that keeps us fed; and the conveyer systems that keep e-commerce flowing. Regal Rexnord's 30,000 associates around the world are proud to be working each day towards fulfilling our business purpose – helping create a better tomorrow – for customers and for the planet.

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