[Hiring] Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs @Regal Rexnord

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.