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BADGER METER INC Senior Engineer, Manufacturing Process-P in MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin
JOB REQUIREMENTS: Duties and Responsibilties 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! What You Will Contribute: The Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer supports product support issues, customer troubleshooting, and validation testing. The Sr. Engineer defines test plans and supports product implementations. The incumbent applies engineering fundamentals to define test scenarios and troubleshoot and analyze tolerances on design. The Sr. Engineer must have the willingness and ability to learn, work effectively in a multi-discipline team, and demonstrate effective problem-solving initiative, and motivation. ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES: * Perform tool tryouts and qualify new injection molds. Perform product and design verification tests. * Initiate and implement engineering change requests. Assist in defining test plans/production implementations. Coordinate and drive multi-disciplined teams to implement engineering changes and new tooling. * Review equipment and tooling performance and initiate continuous improvements, including business cases for new capital assets * Develop and manage training programs for Molding Technicians * Assist purchasing with make vs. buy analysis, along with tool and part procurement. Develop financial analysis and justification of new processes and equipment and initiate capital asset requests for such equipment. * Work with schedulers and production to qualify molds to run in multiple injection molding machines and develop best practices and standards for qualifying parts. * Conduct repeatability and reproducibility experiments of plastic injection molding processes to investigate manufacturing improvements related to quality control. * Record test procedures and results, both numerical and graphical data, and recommend changes in process, product or test method based on the data. Analyze test results about design or rated specifications and make modifications. * Identify problems relating to the product because of the manufacturing process and collaborate with operations and quality to identify issues and troubleshoot. * Develop plastic processing project instructions to determine procedures, objectives, test equipment, and the nature of technical problems. Write product work instructions and process documents. * Apply project management process and tools to manufacturing-based projects to ensure projects meet cost and timing objectives. Coordinate project scope, budgets and timelines. * Apply Badger Meter safety policies to all projects and equipment. * Effectively use appropriate quality techniques to assure the highest possible product quality. * Research safe, reliable, and cost-effective equipment and processes that assure products are produced at established safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives; offer suggestions for process improvements. QUALIFICATIONS: * 8+ or more years of related experience- Injection molding or plastics manufacturing knowledge * Up to 2 years of formal post-high school specialized trade, technical school, or college * Master Molder-1 certification or equivalent * Journeyman- injection molding or related plastics discipline * Knowledge of engineered resin * Ability to analyze tolerances on a design * Ability to read and comprehend engineering drawings (Preferred) * Ability to apply engineering fundamentals to test scenarios (Preferred) * Abil To view the full job description please use the link below. https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcml LjU0MDk4Ljg3NzBAYmFkZ2VybWV0ZXJjb21wLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjU0MDk4Ljg3NzBAYmFkZ2VybWV0ZXJjb21wLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ