Product Quality Leader - Home Energy

Rehlko•Hattiesburg, MS

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Quality Leader leads product quality performance across assigned product families, from suppliers 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 position leads and develops quality team members while owning product and customer quality outcomes. Embedded within manufacturing and aligned with engineering and cross-functional teams, the Product Quality Leader drives defect prevention, structured problem solving, and corrective action to improve First Pass Yield, reduce customer escapes, and lower Cost of Poor Quality. This position requires onsite work at Rehlko’s Hattiesburg, Mississippi location. The role supports new product development, design changes, and cost-reduction initiatives by ensuring quality requirements, validation activities, and manufacturability expectations are met. It manages product quality performance for assigned product families, addresses customer escapes and chronic issues, prioritizes product and customer risks, and leads containment and mitigation actions. In partnership with manufacturing operations, the role improves First Pass Yield, reduces quality holds, rework, and bottlenecks, and ensures consistent execution of in-process controls, inspection strategies, and verification methods. It also analyzes quality losses and leads improvement initiatives addressing scrap, rework, test failures, warranty costs, and customer complaints. Rehlko describes its purpose as creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. Its work spans engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components and electrification solutions, microgrid controls and management, and clean energy solutions. The company emphasizes safety, sustainability, inclusion, career development, and its Zero Is Possible safety culture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial), Operations, Process Management, or a related technical discipline.
A 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.
Demonstrated 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.
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 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 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 and develop quality team members.
Drive defect prevention and continuous improvement to reduce customer escapes and Cost of Poor Quality.