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Regal Rexnord

Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs

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In-Office
Rosemont, IL, USA
247K-385K Annually
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Rosemont, IL, USA
247K-385K Annually
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Lead quality assurance, product compliance, regulatory readiness, supplier quality, and operational governance across the Automation and Motion Control segment. Establish common standards, metrics, corrective-action processes, compliance controls, and regulated-customer readiness practices. Partner with Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Supply Chain, IT, and Operations while coaching divisional and site leaders. The role requires translating regulatory, customer, and quality expectations into practical operating controls across multiple businesses and locations.
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Work Model: This role can be performed remotely from an approved location, with flexibility based on business needs and applicable requirements.

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Position Overview

Regal Rexnord is seeking a senior, business-minded quality, product compliance, and operational excellence leader to serve as Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs. Reporting to the Executive Vice President and President of the Automation and Motion Control (AMC) Segment, this role will support AMC by building and strengthening segment-level standards, governance, operating rhythms, and cross-divisional processes for quality, product compliance, operational execution, and regulated customer expectations. 

This is a segment-level operations leadership role, not a traditional plant quality position, legal role, or government/regulatory affairs role. The role will enable AMC to move from division-by-division problem solving to a more consistent and repeatable segment model by translating quality, customer, regulatory, and compliance requirements into executable operating controls.

Key Responsibilities

Segment Quality, Product Compliance & Governance

  • Establish AMC segment governance for quality, product compliance, product safety, regulated-customer readiness, and operating standards.
  • Identify recurring quality, compliance, and regulatory risks and drive cross-divisional corrective and preventive actions.

Aerospace, Defense & Regulated Customer Readiness

  • Lead segment actions from AMC Aerospace and Defense maturity assessments.
  • Translate maturity recommendations into executable workstreams with Legal, Trade Compliance, IT, Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain.
  • Support practical approaches for regulated customer expectations, including FAA concepts, FAR/DFARS flow-downs, evidence, supplier readiness, recordkeeping, corrective action, traceability, change control, quality escapes, audits, and customer-specific obligations.

Quality Systems

  • Assess quality system maturity and strengthen common processes, metrics, management reviews, and visibility to significant quality events.
  • Set practical standards for root cause, corrective and preventive action, containment, effectiveness checks, and lessons learned.

Product Compliance

  • Strengthen AMC product compliance governance with product compliance, engineering, quality, supply chain, and legal teams.
  • Create a segment approach to translate requirements into processes for product safety, labeling, materials restrictions, certifications, agency requirements, customer obligations, and compliance evidence.

Supplier Quality

  • Set baseline supplier quality expectations and monitoring for high-risk suppliers, regulated programs, critical products, government programs, and compliance risks.
  • Align supplier obligations with customer commitments, including flow-downs, traceability, documentation, change management, source control, counterfeit-part risk, inspection, testing, and corrective actions.

Legal, Compliance & Risk Partnership

  • Partner with Legal and Compliance on quality, product compliance, regulated customer, supplier, and operational governance matters.
  • Support fact development, root cause investigation, corrective action planning, and implementation for significant quality, compliance, customer, supplier, or regulatory matters.

Leadership

  • Coach, develop, and elevate Division & Site leaders to build a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, capability building, and sustained execution.
  • Identify capability gaps and recommend practical resources, training, process, or governance solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following:

  • A minimum of 15 years of experience across the following fields: Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Product Compliance, Engineering, and/or Operations
  • Bachelor’s degree in related field
  • Demonstrated experience building enterprise or segment-level standards, governance models, operating rhythms, and cross-functional accountability mechanisms
  • Strong business acumen and ability to translate legal, regulatory, customer, and compliance requirements into practical operating controls
  • Experience leading cross-functional workstreams across Operations, Quality Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Compliance, IT/Cybersecurity, and business leadership
  • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and divisional teams in a matrixed environment
  • Working knowledge of quality systems, corrective action, supplier quality, product compliance, regulated customer expectations, and continuous improvement methods

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in related field
  • Experience supporting aerospace, defense, FAA-regulated, FAR/DFARS, FDA medical device, medical, data center, or similarly regulated customer environments
  • Experience in implementing quality governance, supplier quality improvements, product compliance processes, or operational excellence systems across multiple sites or divisions
  • Lean, Six Sigma, quality management, regulatory compliance, or related certifications

Pay Transparency

Expected Base Salary Range: $247,400 - $385,400

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.

Export Controlled ITAR/EAR Compliance (Location & Position Dependent)

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, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

Sponsorship

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

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].

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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.

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