Regal Rexnord

Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs

Regal Rexnord • $247K — $385K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Product Compliance, Engineering, or Operations
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • Experience in developing enterprise-level standards and governance models
  • Strong understanding of legal and regulatory compliance and converting it into practical operations
  • Proven leadership in cross-functional collaboration within complex environments
  • Ability to influence senior leaders in a matrixed organization
  • Familiarity with quality systems and continuous improvement methodologies

Responsibilities

  • Establish segment governance for quality and product compliance standards
  • Identify and address recurring quality and compliance risks across divisions
  • Lead maturity assessments for Aerospace and Defense sectors
  • Translate regulatory recommendations into actionable workstreams
  • Enhance product compliance governance through aligned cross-department processes
  • Set expectations and monitoring for supplier quality in high-risk areas
  • Collaborate with Legal and Compliance on governance and operational matters

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
  • HSA and FSA Spending accounts
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays
  • 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Contributions
  • Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
  • Paid Leaves
  • Tuition Assistance
Full Job Description
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

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.
Learn more about Regal Rexnord
Size
6,570 employees
Market Cap
$7.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$146.7 million
Founded
2006
5 Year Trend
-5.7%
Revenue
$1.9 billion
NASDAQ

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