Senior Quality Specialist

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Position: Industrial Manufacturing Quality Specialist

Reports To: Quality Manager

Location: Lincoln, Missouri

Remote Type: On site

Position Summary

The Industrial Manufacturing Quality Specialist is responsible for supporting and maintaining quality systems that ensure products meet customer, regulatory, and company requirements. This role collaborates with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), and customers to drive continuous improvement, investigate quality issues, implement corrective actions, and promote a culture of quality throughout the manufacturing facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor manufacturing processes and product quality to ensure compliance with company standards, customer specifications, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct inspections, audits, and evaluations of products, materials, processes, and documentation to verify conformance to established quality standards.
• Investigate quality concerns, non-conformances, customer complaints, and process deviations, identifying root causes and implementing corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Assist in developing, maintaining, and improving quality management systems, procedures, work instructions, and documentation.
• Analyze quality performance data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify trends, opportunities for improvement, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support internal, customer, and third-party audits and ensure timely closure of audit findings.
• Collaborate with production teams to resolve quality issues and improve process capability, product consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in new product introductions, process changes, and validation activities to ensure quality requirements are met.
• Maintain accurate quality records, inspection reports, corrective action documentation, and regulatory compliance records.
• Assist with supplier quality activities, including supplier evaluations, corrective actions, and incoming material quality concerns.
• Develop and deliver quality-related training to employees to reinforce quality expectations and best practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams, and other problem-solving methodologies.
• Prepare and present quality metrics, reports, and recommendations to leadership teams.
• Promote a culture focused on safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Quality Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in a quality-focused role within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Working knowledge of quality systems, quality assurance principles, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to interpret specifications, technical drawings, procedures, and quality standards.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with ERP, quality management, or document control systems preferred.
• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, ISO 9001, or other quality management systems preferred.

• Quality certifications such as ASQ Certified Quality Technician (CQT), Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA), or Certified Quality Engineer (CQE).
• Experience in ISO audit preparation and compliance.
• Experience within industrial manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting customer audits and regulatory inspections.
• Knowledge of statistical process control (SPC), process capability analysis, and quality data reporting tools.

Travel Requirements

• Occasional travel (up to 10%) may be required for supplier visits, customer meetings, training, audits, or support of additional company locations.

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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

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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