Staff Engineer, Product Regulatory

Staff Engineer - Product Regulatory

Number of Openings: 1

Job Title: Staff Engineer - Product Regulatory

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Duties and Responsibilities of Job:

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! Here at Badger Meter, we believe that our approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion is the very foundation of our success. Our commitment is reflected in our core values, where we strive to create an environment that celebrates differences, encourages innovation, and ensures that every voice is celebrated and appreciated. We understand that a diverse team brings a variety of perspectives and ideas, which ultimately fosters creativity and excellence. Badger Meter provides opportunities for career growth and development for every employee by creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where they can make meaningful contributions while preserving the world’s most precious resource.

What You Will Contribute: As a Staff Engineer - Product Regulatory at Badger Meter, you’ll play a mission-critical role at the intersection of engineering excellence and international standards. You won’t just interpret regulations-you’ll help shape how groundbreaking electronic products achieve certifications across hazardous locations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. This is a high-impact opportunity to act as the subject matter expert for product regulatory strategy, especially in UL, CSA, CE, IECEx, and ATEX standards. You’ll serve as the vital link between engineering design teams and certifying agencies, guiding the New Product Development (NPD) process to ensure both speed and precision in certification outcomes. In this role, your technical insights, proactive collaboration, and commitment to quality will directly influence how Badger Meter delivers reliable, compliant, and high-performance products to customers around the world. This role will be hybrid at our Global Headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We are open to relocation for the right individual. Although this is an individual contributor role, it requires a strong leadership mindset with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, drive alignment, and lead initiatives through collaboration and technical expertise.

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 Complia