Senior Reliability Engineer - HALT/HASS Expert

Badger Meter Inc

Milwaukee (WI)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 140,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Comprehensive health, vision, dental

Tuition reimbursement

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Paid time off

Job summary

Badger Meter seeks a senior reliability engineer to convert product life and performance expectations into defensible acceptance criteria and executable test plans. This leader drives design validation planning and release decisions through rigorous analysis and technical judgment.

You will own the Design Validation Plan for new platforms, integrate field data, support FRACAS, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with cross-functional teams across Design, Manufacturing, Quality and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline.
5+ years of hardware product-development engineering experience including reliability engineering, accelerated testing and life data analysis.
ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer; Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.

Responsibilities

Set and maintain standards for reliability assumptions, statistics, methods and documentation supporting product claims.
Translate service-life, duty-cycle and warranty expectations into measurable reliability requirements and acceptance criteria.
Develop executable test plans defining stress profiles, samples, instrumentation, failure criteria, stop criteria and analysis methods.
Design and lead HALT, HASS, HASA, accelerated life and step-stress testing appropriate to product risks and use environments.
Determine statistically defensible sample sizes, test durations, confidence levels and reliability demonstration approaches.
Develop and defend acceleration factors using physics-of-failure models and validate assumptions when risk warrants.
Evaluate corner cases, tolerance extremes and combined environmental or duty-cycle conditions that may set design limits.
Own the Design Validation Plan for new platforms, including requirements traceability, DFMEA alignment, execution status and release recommendations.
Analyze reliability data using Weibull and other life-distribution methods, censored data, confidence bounds, DOE, regression and hypothesis testing.
Integrate warranty, field return, RMA and installed-base data to compare predicted and realized reliability and improve future validation.
Lead failure analysis through root cause, corrective action and effectiveness verification within the FRACAS process.
Partner with Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, suppliers and laboratories to embed reliability throughout development and production.
Build repeatable analysis tools, structured data, dashboards and reporting standards that improve reproducibility and decision quality.
Mentor engineers and technicians, represent reliability in reviews and audits, and communicate evidence, uncertainty and risk to technical and business audiences.