Plant Manager
- LocationZizurkil, Guipuzkoa, Spain
- Work typeOn-site
- EmploymentFull-time
- Posted30 October 2026
- SourceRegalrexnord's careers page (Workday)
- Last checked4 h ago on Regalrexnord's careers page
About the role
Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Key attributes:
- Servant leadership mindset
- Strong bias for action
- Strong business & financial acumen
- Engaged and dynamic leadership style, with an executive presence
- Cross-functional facilitation skills
- Process Focus, with both strategic and tactical thinking
- Customer and employee focus
- Ability to develop and maintain trust both internally and externally
Provides Organizational Leadership:
- Responsible to lead the plant, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, EHS, Finance, HR, Continuous Improvement and Quality.
- Drives Visual Daily Management, setting targets and empowering team to achieve business objectives and drives problem solving activity when objectives are not met.
- Drives collaborative relationships with other Regal Rexnord plants to foster a “One Team” mentality
- Establishes organizational vision both quantitatively and qualitatively, with the ability to progress toward established vision.
- Fosters a learning organization that recognizes and manages performance gaps, invests energy to perpetually tackle the tough problems, and embraces change to drive progress for the business.
- Effectively removes ambiguity and aligns the organization toward both short and long term business objectives.
Drive Business Performance - SQDC:
- Leads the business management cadence (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) that drives Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost performance throughout the organization.
- Drives problem-solving activities that effectively correct root causes when targets are missed.
- Effectively develops, communicates and aligns the organization around the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure performance targets are achieved.
- Exhibits a Safety-First mindset, encouraging strong participation in driving to a zero-harm environment and holds leadership team accountable to do the same.
- Responsible for financial performance of the business focused on Revenue, Gross Profit and EBITDA. Effectively manages budget to achieve annual targets.
- Utilizes an 80/20 mindset to overserve our top customers through strong operational performance
Talent Management:
- Provides experienced and effective leadership, coaching and mentorship for the organization.
- With Plant Leadership and HR Business Partner, leads talent management system for the plant, driving organizational effectiveness and employee development aligned with achieving business objectives.
- Attracts and retains top talent. Talent hawk.
- Effectively manages under-performing resources.
Continuous Improvement:
- Sets a clear vision for the site with a Continuous Improvement Roadmap to achieve the intended future state.
- Leads the development, organizational alignment and achievement of long-term value stream/operational improvement priorities (Policy Deployment).
- Leads Daily Management activities at Gemba to drive SQDC performance and improvement across the business.Participates in and facilitates improvement activities (Kaizens, Workshops, Just-do-it events, etc).
- Mentors employees during daily management, kaizens and projects to multiply talent.Leverages knowledge of lean, six sigma and continuous improvement principles to solve problems utilizing a structured, data-driven approach.
- Encourages learning from mistakes, leading an organization energized by effective problem solving.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will have proven experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in technical field (engineering, sciences)
- Master's Degree strongly preferred (or equivalent experience)
- Prior Plant Manager experience
- 8+ years of manufacturing experience (Production, Supply Chain, Engineering, Commercial Operations, etc)
- 5+ years in a leadership role of 50+ associates
- Experience in machining preferred.
- Prior P&L ownership experience with strong financial acumen.
- Demonstrated long tenures at prior employers
- Strong command of English and Spanish languages
- Knowledge and experience using lean tools (Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma preferred)
- Experience with 80/20 business model preferred
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.
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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