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Badger Meter - Where Every Drop Counts and So Do You
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 120 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.
Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. We are committed to building a workplace where we shape a more sustainable future, celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation. 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 Regulatory Compliance Engineer ensures conformance of Product Regulatory Compliance activities for a product line(s), as assigned. Engages with cross functional team to drive regulatory compliance activities throughout product life cycle from NPD through production and maintenance.
Job Duties
- NPD & Sustaining engineering - Provide oversight of Product Regulatory Compliance maintenance activities for assigned product line(s).
- Specialized focus with compliance to EU Regulation 2024/2847 (Cyber Resilience Act). Manage Risk assessment and threat analysis, review SBOMs, compile technical documentation, collaborate with cross-functional teams while leading communications with notified bodies to secure CRA conformity and CE marking.
- Work with the following compliance requirements: NSF-61, EU-DWD, WRAS, MCERTS, OIML, CE-marking Directives (MID, EMC, LVD, PED, ATEX, RED), REACH, RoHS, POPs, CalProp65, TSCA, PFAS, WEEE, PPWR, and similar regulations.
- Evaluate pending/upcoming regulatory & environmental changes and recommend course of action for Badger Meter to take to support compliance.
- May attend agency discussion meetings to offer Badger Meter’s position in upcoming regulation changes, as needed.
- Acts as New Product Development liaison for Product Regulatory Compliance actions.
- Ensure company procedures are followed.
- Define the scope of a tasks/project related to product certifications.
- Develops or provides input to project schedules and budgets.
- Obtain Agency Certification quotations from global agencies relative to new/maintenance projects; prepare associated Purchase Request documentation.
- Draft, gain approval and publish product self-declarations and revisions, as required.
- Develop Wetted Part Lists (WPLs) with Senior Regulatory Compliance Engineer for agency submittals, as required.
- Recommend best Regulatory path to satisfy Product Marketing Specification requirements.
- Coordinate transfer of test samples to agencies/testing resources and publishing latest versions of test reports and certification documents.
- Coordinate resolution of non-conformances resulting from periodic surveillance audits.
- Support engineering change processes.
- Interface with BMI technical resources located in Milwaukee and Racine (USA); Neuffen (GE), Brno (CZ), Vienna (A), Lulea (SWE), Bern (CH) and Nogales (MX) as required.
- Provide technical direction/support to other team members for component material declarations and rated environmental compliance.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or post-Bachelor’s degree (Master's or equivalent for Engineering or Engineering Management).
- 5+ or more years of related experience in manufactured product regulatory compliance area with focus on European standards conformance. Experience with EU Regulation 2024/2847 (Cyber Resilience Act) is highly preferred.
- Preferred education background in Engineering, Technology, Material Science, Quality Assurance related to manufacturing & regulatory compliance context.
Qualifications
- Fluent in English
- Strong product knowledge
- Strong analytics skills
- Ability to define the resources and time to complete projects
- Independently solve problems and implement solutions
- Ability to determine risk and define mitigation methods
- Communicate project status and offer solutions to management
- Ability to generate basic financial/business justifications and recommendations
- Ability to work effectively in a multi-discipline team
- Demonstrates ability to drive projects to completion
- Ability to work autonomously and self-directed on daily basis
- Demonstrates appropriate Judgement/decision-making / for their level of authority
- Proficiency using Microsoft Software suite.
Competencies
- Collaboration: Work collaboratively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.
- Communication: 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.
- Initiating Action: Take prompt action to accomplish work goals; take action to achieve results beyond what is required; be proactive.
- Work 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.
Benefits
- Work in a financially stable, export-oriented company.
- A company with over 120 years of global history and more than 20 years of presence in the Czech Republic, with a stable team.
- An independent senior position with responsibility for quality across the entire plant.
- Christmas Bonus (80%) and Vacation Bonus (30%)
- 5 weeks of vacation.
- Meal allowance.
- Contribution to supplementary pension insurance / DIP (Long-term Investment Product).
- Multisport card and Edenred card.
- Flexible working hours.
- Opportunities for further professional growth.
- Refreshments at the workplace, etc.
Additional Information
- Salary range: 75,000-83,000 / month
- Type of Contract: This role is full-time
- Workplace type: on site
- Working hours: While the role follows standard CZ working 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM flexibility will be required to support meetings and collaboration with our US-based colleagues
- Location: Badger Meter Czech Republic s.r.o. | Maříkova 2082/26 | 621 00 Brno | Czech Republic
We offer:
- A motivating work environment and a secure job in an internationally active, innovative and growing company
- Interesting and challenging task with responsibility
- Attractive conditions and opportunities for further training and development
- Flexible work hours
- An open and welcoming environment with great team work
At Badger Meter, we see diversity and inclusion in all its dimensions as a strength of our globally operating organisation. As an equal opportunity employer, we make our personnel decisions regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, age, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.
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