Product Safety & Compliance Quality Lead

Why Work at Rehlko

Their work is guided by their purpose: creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. This purpose embodies the legacy they bring, with more than 100 years as the global leader in energy resilience, delivering solutions critical to sustain and improve life. Their teams have the opportunity to provide a critical resource – energy – that ensures safety, security, and independence for people around the world. Their 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.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work-life flexibility
• Recognition and rewards
• Development and career opportunities
• A safe and inclusive workplace

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 in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, or related technical field required.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Reliability, Product Safety, Regulatory Compliance, or a related technical role.
• Experience leading structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, corrective action and effectiveness verification required.
• Experience with product safety, regulatory compliance, field failures, customer escapes, teardown analysis, warranty issues, or high-risk investigations.
• Experience working with engines, generators, emissions-regulated products, electrical products, power equipment, or durable goods manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize work, influence cross-functional teams, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree or technical certification in Quality, Product Safety, Regulatory Compliance, or Reliability Engineering preferred.
• Experience supporting engine, mechanical, electrical, or complex assembly manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of EPA, CARB, product safety, emissions compliance, PFMEA, control plans, 8D, A3, 5-Why, PPAP, and change management preferred.
• SAP Experience

Salary Range

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.

About Us

Rehlko proudly offers a rich history steeped in creativity and commitment to their associates and communities, along with competitive benefits and compensation. Their Purpose—Creating an energy resilient world for a better future—and Values: Curiosity, Trust, Pace, and Excellence, are important cultural components that shape the way they work and relate to one another. Learn more about Rehlko at www.rehlko.com/who-we-are.

About Us (continued)

In addition to the investment in your development, Rehlko offers a benefits package including a competitive salary, health, vision, dental, 401(k) with Rehlko matching, and more!? Rehlko is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and will make decisions regarding employment opportunities, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination, without regard to race, creed, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, genetic information, age, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, caste, mental or physical disability, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, political belief or affiliation, union membership status, military status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, state, local, or other applicable laws.

ADA Information

It is the policy of Rehlko to comply with all applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and corresponding national, state, local, or other applicable laws. Rehlko will not discriminate against any qualified associate or applicant with respect to any terms, privileges, or conditions of employment because of a person's physical or mental disability. Rehlko will provide a reasonable accommodation to associates or applicants with disabilities, in accordance with applicable laws.

Our Values

• Curiosity – Seek, learn, share
• Trust – Go farther together
• Pace – Focus to go faster
• Excellence – Find the win every day