Product Quality Leader
About the role
The Product Quality Owner manages and owns 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 top strategic customers, driving a customer-first, preventive quality mindset that reduces risk and prevents defects.
Responsibilities
- New Product Development & Product Readiness - 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.
- Customer & Product Quality - 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.
- Making Manufacturing Quality - 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.
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) & Continuous Improvement - 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize work, influence cross-functional teams, and deliver results in a fast-paced operational setting.
- 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 Qualifications
- 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
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
Pay
The Salary range for this position is $89,800.00-$114,100.00. The specific Salary rate offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location.
Schedule
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