Staff Engineer, Supplier Quality

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

As a Staff Engineer – Supplier Quality you will make a direct impact on product performance and customer satisfaction. In this role, you will lead supplier quality initiatives, drive improvements across a diverse supply base, and ensure our products meet the highest standards of reliability. You will partner with suppliers, purchasing, engineering, and operations to solve problems, improve processes, and enhance quality. Travel to manufacturing and supplier sites is required.

 

Specific Responsibilities:

• Develop technical expertise in assigned commodities related to design and manufacturing.

• Lead print and design for manufacturing reviews with suppliers

• Provide input to engineering and purchasing to optimize, design, cost, and quality of products

• Review and approve supplier Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) submissions.

• Define quality expectations for suppliers and implement action plans to achieve targets.

• Mitigate quality risks through safe launch and error-proofing strategies

• Lead SCAR resolution using structed problem solving strategies. 

• Conduct on-site assessments and qualification activities and close out findings.

• Collaborate with purchasing for supplier selection and sourcing strategies

• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.

• Support NPD, CPD, VAVE, and material cost down projects

• Support manufacturing issues and concerns related to supplied components

• Identify and implement process and procedure improvements

• Support vendor recovery initiatives

Requirements:

• Advance knowledge and application of GD&T

• Excellent communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.

• Functional understanding of home generator and supporting products

• Minimum 8 years of supplier quality engineering or manufacturing engineering experience

• Self-driven, organized, independent, and able to work with minimal oversight.

• Ability to travel up to 30%.