Product Safety & Compliance Quality Lead

Rehlko

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Alternative Energy, Analysis Skills, Communication Skills, Compensation and Benefits, Corrective Action, Cross-Functional, Documentation, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Failure Analysis, Financial Trend Analysis, Identify Issues, Legal, Manufacturing Requirements, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), Problem Solving Skills, Process Control Engineering, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Product Management, Product Safety, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reports, Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Safety Compliance, Safety Process, Safety/Work Safety, Sustainability, Vendor/Supplier Quality Management
LOCATION
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
POSTED
8 days ago
Why Work at Rehlko

Our work is guided by our purpose: creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. This purpose embodies the legacy we bring, with more than 100 years as the global leader in energy resilience, delivering solutions critical to sustain and improve life.

Our teams have the opportunity to provide a critical resource - energy - that ensures safety, security, and independence for people around the world. Our team members are focused on pushing boundaries, continuing to innovate in an ever-changing landscape, and keeping up with the pace required to create solutions for today's world demands.

Our product range includes engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components and electrification solutions, microgrid controls and management, and clean energy solutions that serve a broad spectrum of OEM, residential, industrial, and commercial customers. At Rehlko, you have the freedom to identify, create, and deliver solutions - large and small - that help people and communities thrive in the moments that matter.

At Rehlko, our team members are the essential energy that powers our organization's success. We are committed to fostering a safe and sustainable work environment where safety is everyone's responsibility. We empower every team member to actively participate in our Zero Is Possible safety culture by encouraging open communication, proactively reporting hazards, following protocols, and suggesting improvements. Join us in creating an energy resilient world for a better future!

What We Offer

At Rehlko, our Total Rewards programs are designed to accelerate growth, energize performance, and support a culture of inclusion at every stage of life and work. We offer total rewards that are easily understood, recognize results, enable career mobility, and reflect our commitment to valuing diverse needs in a fast-moving world. We provide:
  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Work-life flexibility
  • Recognition and rewards
  • Development and career opportunities
  • A safe and inclusive workplace

Why You Will Love this Job

Job Overview

The Product Safety & Compliance Quality Lead provides dedicated quality ownership for product safety, regulatory/compliance and high-risk field issues across engines and generator failures. This role leads investigation, containment, teardown analysis, corrective action and risk mitigation for compliance-related Engine Problem Reports, thermal events, regulatory failures and customer escapes with potential safety, legal or agency impact.

The role partners closely with Engineering, Legal, Service, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality and Product Management to ensure product safety concerns are investigated with urgency, supported by objective evidence and closed through disciplined problem-solving. This position also owns the quality response for issues that may require communication, documentation or corrective action back to agencies such as the EPA.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead quality investigations for product safety, regulatory/compliance and related Engine Problem Reports.

• Drive structured problem-solving for compliance failures, emissions-related defects, thermal events and high-risk customer escapes.

• Establish and maintain a closed-loop product safety and compliance process from issue identification through containment, investigation, corrective action, effectiveness verification and final closure

• Owns internal Rehlko system that tracks all safety/regulatory occurrences.

• Lead engine and generator teardown investigations, including evidence collection, failure analysis, reporting, root cause and corrective action tracking.

• Partner with Legal, Engineering, Regulatory and Service to assess risk, define containment and determine the appropriate path forward on field escapes.

• Ensure investigation records, corrective actions and closure evidence are complete, accurate and defensible.

• Monitor repeat and emerging safety/compliance trends from warranty, service, customer complaints, regulatory reports, production defects and teardown findings

• Support agency-facing documentation, internal risk reviews and compliance-related corrective action responses.

• Identify systemic failure modes and drive prevention through PFMEA updates, control plan improvements, process controls, training and supplier corrective actions.

• Escalate safety or compliance risks quickly and drive cross-functional ownership until effective corrective action is verified.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree

About the Company

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