Senior Manager, Plant Manager

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Plant Manager to join our Cleveland OH team and oversee all aspects of plant performance, driving operational excellence, safety, productivity, and a culture of continuous improvement. In this critical role, you will lead cross‑functional teams — Production, Quality, EHS, Manufacturing Engineer — to deliver on Annual Operating Plan goals while cultivating a strong SQDCG focus and ensuring predictable, high‑quality outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings deep manufacturing operations expertise, strong financial and business acumen, and a proven ability to translate strategic vision into actionable plans. You will champion the Regal Rexnord Business System, including 80/20 principles and Lean methodologies, fostering a future‑focused CI mindset throughout the plant. As a key member of the leadership team, you will partner on long‑term strategy, drive policy deployment, and ensure strong daily management systems are in place.

This role also plays a pivotal part in talent development—building, coaching, and engaging a high‑performance team while promoting accountability, inclusion, and succession strength across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence & Effective Problem Solving 

• Maintain a safe work environment that is compliant with all regulations and drive environmental health and safety (EHS) metrics and continuous improvement initiatives that promote safety. 
• Lead the plant 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 supporting and driving the strategic vision by breaking it into actionable strategies and tactics. Direct activities across the plant, providing leadership to Production, Quality, Purchasing, Human Resources and Finance.  
• Knows what good looks like and has the ability to coach and develop a team via the Gemba process. 
• Ensures accountability and enables the predictability of the outcomes of the plant.  Determine true root cause and corrective action of delivery, quality or other issues quickly and effectively. 
• Lead and drive the Regal Rexnord Business System which includes  80/20 and Continuous Improvement. Skilled and experienced in decomposing a strategic vision into actionable strategies and tactics, that can be cascaded to their location.  
• Drive CI mindset, with clear future factory vision, to significantly improve productivity and efficiency across their plant and drive employee engagement. 
• Establish and sustain strong visual daily management, GEMBA culture, root cause corrective action, problem solving, 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 plant leadership team to develop and communicate a future vision for the business. 
• Partners with the plant leadership team on the overall plant strategy, 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 operation. 

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 managers are proven talent, with a strong say/do and continuous improvement mindset. 
• Serve as an advocate for our top talent, developing and building strong succession plans to enable increased velocity, be a champion of promoting diversity and inclusion in and across the location. 

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an Accredited University 
• 7+ years manufacturing operations experience; including experience with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Safety, Inventory, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, and/or related support functions in a manufacturing environment  
• 5+ years leading people 
• 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 a site with a bias for action and a say-do mindset 
• Critical thinking skills to properly identify problem areas & 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 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Plant Management Experience (Top Site Location Leader) 
• Industrial Industry experience 
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement/ RBS tools (Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma, Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma) 

Physical Demand and Work Environment

Physical Demands – while performing the duties in this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.

Work Environment – the noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Expected Salary: $165,000 - $200,000+ annually

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.”
 

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.

• 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

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.

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].

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