Senior Manager Continuous Improvement
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026. Regal Rexnord scores B on the Alion truth index.
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Key Responsibilities
Drive the Visual Daily Management System
- Design, implement, and sustain robust Visual Daily Management Systems (DMS) across European sites.
- Ensure sites have established tiered accountability meetings and visual management processes from the production floor through plant leadership.
- Support the teams to develop meaningful KPIs focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Inventory, Productivity, and People.
- Drive Leader Standard Work and accountability routines.
- Ensure performance gaps are identified and acted upon through disciplined escalation processes.
Build a Problem-Solving Culture
- Develop region-wide capability in structured problem solving methodologies.
- Coach leaders and teams in root cause analysis, A3 thinking, 8D, 5 Why, and PDCA methodologies.
- Facilitate cross-functional improvement events focused on eliminating recurring operational issues.
- Build organizational capability to solve problems at the lowest possible level.
- Drive a culture where issues are surfaced, solved, and permanently eliminated.
Optimize Manufacturing Flow & Facility Layouts
- Facilitate current-state and future-state value stream mapping activities.
- Utilize tools such as PQPRs to help the team understand where to focus improvement activities.
- Design manufacturing layouts to improve material flow, reduce transportation waste, and optimize labor efficiency.
- Partner with Materials, Operations, and Engineering teams to create pull-based replenishment systems.
- Drive factory flow improvements that support higher throughput, improved on-time delivery, and reduced lead times.
- Improve warehouse, supermarket, point-of-use inventory, and production flow strategies.
- Lead facility redesign and footprint optimization initiatives supporting future growth.
Lead Lean Transformation Initiatives
- Identify and prioritize strategic improvement opportunities across Europe.
- Facilitate Kaizen events and continuous improvement workshops.
- Implement Lean Manufacturing tools including: Standard Work, Visual Management, 6S, Value Stream Mapping, Cell Design, Pull Systems, PQPR, Kanban, SMED, Total Productive Maintenance
- Establish sustainable governance and support sites to build continuous improvement roadmaps.
Develop Team Capability
- Coach plant leaders in Lean leadership behaviors and continuous improvement principles.
- Build internal CI champions across functions and sites.
- Deliver training programs supporting operational excellence and problem-solving capability.
- Foster employee engagement and ownership of continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or related field.
- 7+ years of manufacturing, operational excellence, or continuous improvement leadership experience.
- Demonstrated success deploying Lean Manufacturing systems in complex manufacturing environments.
- Experience leading plant-wide transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing flow, factory design, and material movement optimization.
- Proven ability to coach leaders and drive cultural change.
- Strong English language skills.
- Requires 50-75% travel within Europe
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.
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