Rehlko · 11 hours ago
Product Quality Leader
Hattiesburg, MS
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$90K/yr - $114K/yr
5+ years expRehlko is a global leader in energy resilience, dedicated to creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. The Product Quality Leader is responsible for managing product quality performance across assigned product families, ensuring a customer-first quality mindset while leading a team to drive defect prevention and improve quality outcomes.
Consumer Goods
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 directly 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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial), Operations, Process Management, or a related technical discipline
Minimum of 5 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 (e.g., Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, RCCA, 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
Working knowledge of data analysis and reporting tools preferred (e.g., Excel, Power BI, or similar)
Preferred
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
Benefits
Health
Vision
Dental
401(k) with Rehlko matching
Company
Rehlko
Rehlko is a global leader in energy resilience, delivering the solutions critical to sustain and improve life.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase