Product Quality Leader - Home Energy

Rehlko • Hattiesburg, MS

5d • $83,300 - $105,200 • Onsite

About The Position

The Product Quality Leader leads product quality performance across assigned product families, from supplier through manufacturing and customer delivery. This role serves as the primary quality leader for products supporting customers, driving a customer-first, preventive quality mindset that reduces risk and prevents defects. The leader develops quality team members and owns product and customer quality outcomes. Embedded within manufacturing and aligned with engineering and cross-functional teams, the role drives defect prevention, structured problem solving, and corrective action to improve First Pass Yield, reduce customer escapes, and lower Cost of Poor Quality. The position requires onsite work at Rehlko’s Hattiesburg, Mississippi location.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial), Operations, Process Management, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 2–3 years of experience in manufacturing, quality, reliability, or operations, with demonstrated leadership and cross-functional impact.
• Proven experience driving quality improvement, defect prevention, corrective action, and risk mitigation in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading or supporting continuous improvement initiatives such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, RCCA, or CAPA.
• Ability to prioritize work, influence cross-functional teams, and deliver results in a fast-paced operational setting.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing team members, formally or informally.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of data analysis and reporting tools such as Excel, Power BI, or similar.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience supporting products for strategic or key customers in a manufacturing environment.
• Background in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) reduction, warranty analysis, and reliability improvement.
• SAP experience.

Responsibilities

• Support new product development, design changes, and cost-reduction initiatives by ensuring quality requirements, validation activities, and manufacturability expectations are met.
• Apply lessons learned and field feedback to strengthen future product designs and processes.
• Manage product quality performance for assigned product families, maintaining accountability for customer escapes, chronic issues, and reliability performance.
• Identify and prioritize product and customer risks using manufacturing data, field feedback, and performance indicators.
• Lead containment and mitigation actions to protect customers and minimize operational and business impact.
• Partner with manufacturing operations to improve First Pass Yield, reduce quality holds, and eliminate rework and bottlenecks.
• Ensure effective in-process controls, inspection strategies, and verification methods are consistently executed.
• Lead structured problem solving and corrective action to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
• Analyze quality-related losses and lead initiatives to reduce scrap, rework, test failures, warranty cost, and customer complaints.
• Use data-driven methods to prioritize improvement actions with the greatest customer and business impact.
• Lead, coach, and develop quality team members.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including health, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) with Rehlko matching.
• Work-life flexibility.
• Recognition and rewards.
• Development and career opportunities.
• A safe and inclusive workplace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level