Staff Engineer, Product Regulatory

Why Badger Meter?
 

Badger Meter is a leading global water technology company, with a mission to preserve and protect the world’s most precious resource.  For more than 100 years, cities and businesses have utilized our innovative and trusted solutions to enhance operational efficiency and conserve water while making it more affordable, clean and resilient.  Just like every drop counts, at Badger Meter every employee counts because our contributions have a lasting impact on the world!

What You Will Contribute:
 

The Staff Engineer, Product Regulatory will act as the subject matter expert (SME) that will provide oversight of development & maintenance focusing on Hazardous Locations products.  This position will be the SME to understand the Hazardous Location standards that Badger Meter must comply with for our global operations (N.A. Europe. Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions). This role will have a goal of driving products through regulatory faster and will provide expertise/input regarding the design of the product to the New Product Development Team (NPD) to ensure products are passing the Hazardous Location standards. 

This position will Interface with BMI technical resources located in Milwaukee, WI; Neuffen, GE; Nogales, MX; Vienna, AU, Collegeville, PA, Hethel, UK and Lulea, Sweden, as required.

Job Duties:

• Act as the SME and Provide technical direction/support to other team members for component material declarations and related environmental compliance.

• Support NPD and provide oversight of Product Regulatory Compliance development activities for products used for UL/CSA/CE/IECEx/ATEX and other applications. Review the design with Engineering and verify compliance with the standard.

• Develop and maintain close technical relationships with 3rd-party certifying agencies (like UL, CSA, FM) to result in efficient and favorable outcomes for product certifications.

• Read and understand the requirements of the hazardous location standards to ensure product certifications are attained within budget and schedule requirements.

• Evaluate pending/upcoming regulatory & environmental changes to standards and recommend course or action for Badger Meter to take in order to support compliance requirements.

• Attend agency discussion meetings as needed to offer Badger Meter’s position to upcoming regulation changes, As needed. 

• Act as New Product Development or Project lead engineer for Product Regulatory Compliance actions, including hands-on detailed design review of electrical device designs. Lead team to achieve the specific certification required.

• Train development groups on best practices of electronic/electrical, mechanical & system design for product certifications in hazardous location or CE.  

• Interface with corporate legal counsel to discuss impact of proposed regulatory changes.

• Define scope of projects and costs related to product certification, develop/provide  input to project schedules and budgets and execute schedule/budgets to meet targets per approved project schedule. 

• Obtain Agency Certification quotations from global agencies relative to new/maintenance projects; prepare associated Purchase Request documentation.

• Develop Critical Components Lists with Lead Engineer for agency submittals, as required.

• Coordinate transfer of test samples to agencies/testing resources and publishing latest versions of test reports and certification documents.

• Up to 15% travel required.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field required.

• 7+ years of related specific work experience with UL, CSA, FM, IEC Ex and ATEX certifications and testing desired; significant experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.

Qualifications:

• Professional Engineer (PE) Registration Certificate preferred.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) preferred.

• Green Belt/Black Belt training desired or the ability to obtain if needed.

• Intermediate proficiency using Microsoft Software suite preferred.

• Familiarity with Lean and related manufacturing processes required.

• Thorough knowledge of CSA/UL Class 1/2/3 Division1/2/Zone 0,1,2, and CE Ex standards as they apply to elect