Badger Meter - Where Every Drop Counts and So Do You
 

At Badger Meter, we're more than a leading global water technology company - we're innovators with a mission: to preserve and protect the world's most precious resource. For over 120 years, our trusted solutions have enabled our customers to optimize the delivery and use of water, maximize revenue and reduce waste.

Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. Here, your work doesn't just move a business forward - it shapes a more sustainable future. We are committed to building a workplace where we celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation.

When you join us, you'll find:

• Purpose-driven work that makes a real difference in communities around the globe.

• Career growth and development opportunities designed to help you achieve your potential.

• A supportive, inclusiveculture where collaboration and creativity thrive.

Be part of something bigger. At Badger Meter, your contributions will ripple far beyond the workplace - creating lasting change for people and the planet.

What You Will Contribute:
 

Senior Engineer, Reliability

Make an Impact on Products Built to Perform for Years

At Badger Meter, reliability is about more than passing a test. It is about ensuring the products our customers depend on continue performing in demanding real-world environments for years to come.

As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you'll play a key role in strengthening how we design, validate and continuously improve our hardware products. You'll partner with engineers across product development, manufacturing and quality to turn product-life expectations into practical reliability requirements, develop accelerated test strategies, investigate failures and use field data to influence future designs.

This is an opportunity for an experienced reliability engineer to have a significant voice in how reliability engineering is practiced at Badger Meter. You'll help establish methods, introduce new approaches and tools, mentor others and influence product decisions from early development through launch and field performance.

What You'll Do

• Lead reliability planning and design validation for new products and platforms.
• Translate product-life, warranty and real-world use expectations into measurable reliability requirements and test strategies.
• Develop accelerated life and environmental test plans using approaches such as HALT, HASS, ALT and step-stress testing.
• Apply reliability statistics and life-data analysis to determine appropriate sample sizes, test durations, confidence levels and acceptance criteria.
• Use Weibull analysis, DOE, regression and other statistical methods to understand product performance and predict reliability.
• Apply physics-of-failure principles to understand failure mechanisms and connect laboratory testing to expected field performance.
• Lead root-cause and failure-analysis activities and help drive corrective actions through the FRACAS process.
• Use warranty, RMA, field-return and installed-base data to compare predicted versus actual product performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, suppliers and external laboratories throughout the product-development lifecycle.
• Help strengthen reliability engineering standards, tools, documentation and best practices across the organization.
• Mentor engineers and technicians and communicate technical findings, risk and recommendations to both engineering and business teams.

What You'll Bring

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of engineering experience working with hardware or manufactured products, with hands-on experience in reliability, product validation, accelerated testing or life-data analysis.
• Experience developing or executing reliability and/or design-validation test strategies.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and experience using statistical methods to understand product performance and failure.
• Ability to work across engineering, quality, manufacturing and product teams and influence technical decisions.

Preferred

• Experience with HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, step-stress testing, Weibull analysis, reliability demonstration testing or physics-of-failure methods.
• ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) certification.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience with Minitab, JMP, ReliaSoft or similar reliability/statistical-analysis tools.
• Experience with sensors, electronics, battery-powered products, metering, industrial equipment or other long-service-life hardware.

Why This Role

You'll have the opportunity to help shape a growing reliability engineering capability within Badger Meter. Rather than simply executing established test procedures, you'll help determine how products should be validated, what evidence is needed to support product-life expectations and how field performance should influence the next generation of designs.

Your work will directly contribute to products designed to perform reliably for customers over the long term.

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Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:

• Competitive Pay

• Annual Bonus

• Eligible for Annual Pay Increases

• Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage 

• 15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays  

• Two Ways to Save for Retirement: Badger Meter contributes 25 cents for every dollar you contribute to the plan, up to 7% of your eligible compensation.  In addition to the match, the company will also contribute 5% of your eligible compensation to your Defined Contribution account on an annual basis. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!

• Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more 

• Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 

• Voluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage

• Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options

An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the “EEO is the Law” poster supplement at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm

Badger Meter complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local disability laws. This means that we will reasonably accommodate qualified employees with a disability if accommodation would allow them to perform the essential functions of their job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.  

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