Manager, Plastics Engineering
Badger Meter

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 Manager, Plastics Engineering is responsible for ensuring the development of robust processes for new tooling launches as well as ensuring that existing tooling is supported and leveraging advancements in technology. This role aids in resolving processing issues, ensuring thorough documentation and effective communication of findings. In addition, this role evaluates and makes recommendations for key processing equipment, molding processes, and maintains an in-depth understanding of the latest molding technologies. Direct Reports include several engineers. Key internal customers for this role include Sustaining Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality, Production, Procurement, as well as several other manufacturing locations across North America. The Plastics Manager draws on both hard and soft skills to motivate their team to achieve the defined strategic goals, producing metrics to measure those goals to minimize any deviations to established plans.

Job Duties:

• Acts as a liaison between Quality, Engineering, and Manufacturing departments for tooling and process related issues across multiple manufacturing facilities
  
• Provides detailed information on part design and mold design impacts on processing and provides recommendations for related processing issues
  
• Helps evaluate new and existing technologies, defining and executing a roadmap aimed at improving the tooling and equipment to support strategic objectives of the company
  
• Establishes and fosters key relationships throughout the organization, enabling effective communication to execute on commitments, deliver results, and drive critical issues simultaneously
  
• Supports Design Engineering to optimize part design for processing improvements
  
• Supports Procurement in the development of new tooling to support NPD & outsource existing
  

Education and Experience:

• Associates degree in Plastics, Engineering or a related field required
  
• 7+ years of related experience in Molding, Plastics, Engineering desired; Prior Management experience highly desired. Significant years of experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.
  

Qualifications:

• Master Molder Certification required
  
• Advanced knowledge of tooling concepts and molding processes required
  
• Advanced working knowledge of GD&T, DFMEA, PFMEA, and other engineering principles
  
• Thorough understanding of Scientific Injection Molding Principles required
  
• Ability to lead a technical support staff responsible for supporting day-to-day operations required
  

Competencies:

• Delegation and Empowerment: Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision-making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
  
• Coaching: Engaging an individual in developing and committing to an action plan that targets specific behaviors, skills or knowledge needed to ensure performance improvement or prepare for success in new responsibilities.
  
• Decision Making: Identify and understand problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choose the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating, and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; take action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
  
• Aligning Performance for Success: Focusing and managing individual performance by helping others set performance goals, and then tracking results and evaluating performance effectiveness.
  
• Execution: Ensuring others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities; measuring progress and ensuring accountability against those metrics.
  

Working Conditions:

• Work is performed in a Manufacturing/Office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment
  
• Audiogram required
  

Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:

• Competitive Pay
  
• Annual Bonus
  
• Eligible for Annual Pay Increases
  
• Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
  
• 15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
  
• Two 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. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!
  
• Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more
  
• Educational Assistance - Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250
  
• Voluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage
  
• Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
  

An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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

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