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For over 120 years, our trusted solutions have enabled our customers to optimize the delivery and use of water, maximize revenue and reduce waste.\nEvery 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.\nWhen you join us, you'll find:\nPurpose-driven work that makes a real difference in communities around the globe.\n\nCareer growth and development opportunities designed to help you achieve your potential.\n\nA supportive, inclusive culture where collaboration and creativity thrive.\n\nBe part of something bigger. At Badger Meter, your contributions will ripple far beyond the workplace - creating lasting change for people and the planet.\nWhat You Will Contribute:\nServes as Badger Meter's technical authority for reliability engineering, converting product life and performance expectations into defensible acceptance criteria, acceleration models, executable test plans and field-validated evidence. This senior individual contributor owns design validation planning for new platforms and influences release decisions through rigorous analysis and clear technical judgment.\nJob Duties:\n Set and maintain standards for reliability assumptions, statistics, methods and documentation supporting product claims. \nTranslate service-life, duty-cycle and warranty expectations into measurable reliability requirements and acceptance criteria.\nDevelop executable test plans defining stress profiles, samples, instrumentation, failure criteria, stop criteria and analysis methods. \nDesign and lead HALT, HASS, HASA, accelerated life and step-stress testing appropriate to product risks and use environments.\nDetermine statistically defensible sample sizes, test durations, confidence levels and reliability demonstration approaches.\nDevelop and defend acceleration factors using physics-of-failure models and validate assumptions when risk warrants.\nEvaluate corner cases, tolerance extremes and combined environmental or duty-cycle conditions that may set design limits.\nOwn the Design Validation Plan for new platforms, including requirements traceability, DFMEA alignment, execution status and release recommendations.\nAnalyze reliability data using Weibull and other life-distribution methods, censored data, confidence bounds, DOE, regression and hypothesis testing.\nIntegrate warranty, field return, RMA and installed-base data to compare predicted and realized reliability and improve future validation.\nLead failure analysis through root cause, corrective action and effectiveness verification within the FRACAS process.\nPartner with Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, suppliers and laboratories to embed reliability throughout development and production.\nBuild repeatable analysis tools, structured data, dashboards and reporting standards that improve reproducibility and decision quality.\nMentor engineers and technicians, represent reliability in reviews and audits, and communicate evidence, uncertainty and risk to technical and business audiences.\nEducation and Experience:\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline.\n5+ years of hardware product-development engineering experience, including reliability engineering, accelerated testing and life data analysis.\nASQ Certified Reliability Engineer; Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.\nQualifications:\nDemonstrated expertise in HALT, HASS, ALT, step-stress testing, reliability demonstration and design validation planning.\nStrong applied statistics, acceleration modeling, physics of failure and technical influence without direct authority.\nExperience with metering, sensors, battery-powered electronics or long-service-life hardware is preferred.\nKnowledge of applicable industry standards; and experience with ReliaSoft, Minitab, JMP or relevant scripting tools is preferred.\nCompetencies:\nCollaboration: Work collaboratively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.\nCommunication: Convey information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listen actively to others.\nInitiating Action: Take prompt action to accomplish work goals; take action to achieve results beyond what is required; be proactive.\nWork Standards: Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.\nCompetitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:\nCompetitive Pay\n\nAnnual Bonus\n\nEligible for Annual Pay Increases\n\nComprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage\n\n15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays\n\nTwo 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. Additionalaccess to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!\n\nEmployer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more\n\nEducational Assistance - Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250\n\nVoluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage\n\nHealth Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options\n\nAn Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction 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\nBadger 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.\nPrivacy Statement\nThe Employee and Applicant Privacy Statement describes how we collect, use, share, retain, and safeguard applicant information. 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