Position Overview
Regal Rexnord is seeking a seasoned, business-minded attorney to serve as Senior Corporate Counsel, supporting the Automation & Motion Control (AMC) segment, the Company’s fastest-growing business. Reporting to the VP, Deputy General Counsel – AMC, this role serves as the primary legal partner and second-in-command for segment legal matters, providing day-to-day legal leadership across commercial, operational, and regulatory issues.
This role is suited for a senior commercial attorney with experience advising industrial manufacturers, particularly aerospace, defense, or government‑facing businesses. The Senior Corporate Counsel will understand the demands of operating as a government supplier and will provide practical, execution‑oriented legal guidance that supports growth, manages risk, and drives efficiency and consistency across the segment. The role is primarily U.S.-focused, with regular interaction across global operations, suppliers, and customers.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial & Segment Legal Leadership
- Serve as the primary day-to-day legal advisor to the AMC segment and as second-in-command to the VP, Deputy General Counsel – AMC.
- Act as a trusted legal and business partner to segment leadership, sales, supply chain, quality, operations, and engineering teams.
- Serve as a go-to legal resource for routine and complex legal questions across six AMC divisions.
Commercial Contracting & Protection
- Lead and support negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of customer, supplier, distributor, and strategic commercial agreements — including large, cross-division and cross-segment agreements.
- Advise on contract structure, pricing, risk allocation, liability, warranty, quality, delivery, indemnification, and termination provisions.
- Support contract execution and lifecycle management, including active enforcement of contract rights on pricing, IP, delivery, and quality obligations.
- Lead and support commercial enforcement matters, including collections on overdue customer payments and enforcement of contractual rights through demand letters and escalation.
- Advise on and support alignment of customer contract risk with downstream supply chain obligations — a growing and increasingly complex area as AMC scales cross-division commercial programs.
- Provide guidance to and support the contract specialist team to drive consistency, efficiency, and adherence to standard processes and playbooks.
Aerospace, Defense & Government Contracting Support
- Support commercial and operational matters involving aerospace, defense, and government-facing customers across AMC's five divisions.
- Demonstrate a working understanding of the government contracting environment, including FAR/DFARS concepts, flow-down requirements, audit exposure, and supplier obligations.
- Advise the business on risks and expectations associated with being a government supplier, including compliance, recordkeeping, pricing, delivery, quality, and termination considerations.
- Partner with Trade Compliance, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, and Operations teams to address regulatory, export controls, sanctions, CMMC compliance, and other trade-related considerations impacting government and defense programs.
Risk Management, Disputes & Litigation Support
- Serve as first-line legal advisor on segment-related commercial disputes, claims, quality issues, warranty matters, supply chain disruptions, and customer escalations.
- Partner with head of litigation, internal business stakeholders and outside counsel on segment-specific pre-litigation matters, contract-related matters, litigation support, and government contracting matters, commercial disputes, government contracts, including strategy, fact development, and resolution.
- Provide practical, risk-based guidance that balances legal exposure with business objectives and customer relationships.
Operational Partnership, Process Improvement & Execution
- Collaborate with EHS, Quality, Trade Compliance, Real Estate, and other functional teams on legal issues impacting operations, regulatory compliance, and strategic initiatives.
- Identify recurring risks, inefficiencies, or friction points and drive improvements in contract templates, processes, and legal workflows — including building standard work and playbooks the business can use to self-identify risk.
- Design and deliver training and business education so the business understands when contractual risk is triggered — before it is — reducing reactive legal exposure.
- Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives on legacy contract exposure, contract management rigor, and risk identification across AMC's active commercial portfolio.
- Manage multiple matters simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, maintaining ownership and follow-through through resolution.
Required Skills & Qualifications
The successful candidate will have the following:
- 8+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, with strong and effective drafting skills and significant responsibility for customer and supplier contracting.
- JD from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, industrial, or government-facing manufacturing businesses is required.
- Demonstrated experience and high understanding of the government contracting ecosystem, including FAR/DFARS concepts, flow-downs, audits, and the legal risks of operating as a government supplier.
- Experience advising on commercial matters, including disputes, quality issues, warranty claims, EHS-related matters, and operational risk.
- Experience in a publicly traded or highly regulated environment preferred.
- Excellent judgment, discretion, and risk assessment.
- Practical business acumen, driving pragmatic business-oriented solutions.
- A highly approachable, collegial, and collaborative approach.
- Accountable and proactive self-starter, comfortable working independently.
- Superb organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once.
Language: English
Expected Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $200,000
The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.
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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- 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
- 8+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer
- JD from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, industrial, or government-facing manufacturing businesses
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of the government contracting ecosystem
- Practice business acumen and pragmatic business-oriented solutions
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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What We Do
All 29k+ associates at Regal Rexnord have a shared purpose: Create a better tomorrow by energy-efficiently converting power into motion. We are a leading, global manufacturer of airflow, motion control, power transmission, and power generation solutions used in commercial, industrial and residential settings. 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 conveyor systems that keep e-commerce flowing. Regal Rexnord is comprised of four operating segments: Motion Control Solutions, Climate Solutions, Commercial Systems and Industrial Systems. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales, and service facilities worldwide. For more information, visit RegalRexnord.com.
