Senior Mechanical Engineer
Badger Meter

Job Info

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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:


This position is responsible for advanced product research and support of mechanical and flow technologies. This includes exploration and implementation of other engineering disciplines for the purpose of developing new products, enhancing existing products or sustaining current product offerings. This person has direct responsibilities for the technical nature and content of the design as well as the quality, reliability, and verification. This person ensures all products are designed for manufacturability and assembly. This position also involves comprehensive testing, test plans and interfacing with customers.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will work with internal disciplines including Marketing, Manufacturing, Production and Quality to meet project deliverables. Project deliverables satisfy marketing and technical design criteria that achieve the project schedule, project budget, and product cost.

Major Job Duties/Accountabilities:

Create, execute, and document verification test plans to ensure products meet market and customer requirements

• Use extensive knowledge of Badger Meter products and engineering principles to generate and execute test plans that ensure product meets design requirements.
• Maintains complete records to test results
• Coordinates testing with test labs when certified results are needed. These include but are not limited to, CE, NSF, UL, FM, and Intrinsic Safety
• Develops and performs DVP&R, Risk Analysis and FMEA

Ensures that germane new concepts are known, investigated, reviewed, and recommended for evaluation and consideration by management for new and existing products.

• Works closely with Designers to develop innovative new products.
• Includes manufacturing in the design process to assure new products are compatible with Badger Meter's production processes.
• Uses their technical abilities and product experience to support existing products.

Project planning and documenting including Design Specification, Test Specifications, Product Specifications, cost estimates, and project scheduling

• Works with Project Manager to develop timeline for project tasks
• Ensures resources are adequate and available
• Creates or directs creation of Design Specification using extensive knowledge of Badger Meter products and engineering principles to meet the market requirements as laid out in the Marketing Specification.
• Creates or directs creation of Test Specifications to be used by Badger Meter Quality and Manufacturing departments to ensure that product is adequately tested prior to shipment to customers.
• Creates or directs creation of Product Specifications based on results of verification testing. This document with the Design Specification is used to create installation briefs, technical briefs, and other marketing documentation.
• Works with Badger Meter Purchasing and Badger Meter Manufacturing Engineering to determine product costs. Will make design changes to reduce cost based on input from Purchasing and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Works with Badger Meter engineering documentation group to release newly developed products.

Works closely with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service departments to support existing customers and upcoming bids.

Product return support and analysis including field troubleshooting

• Work with customer support, quality, and sales to diagnose claims.
• Engineering, installation, and manufacturing recommendations and changes generated because of this analysis.

Qualifications:

• Strong design and 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 status and solutions to management
• Advanced foundation of engineering fundamentals
• Ability to generate basic financial/business justifications
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-discipline team
• Demonstrates ability to drive projects to completion
• Ability to work autonomously and self-directed
• Demonstrates appropriate Judgement / decision making / for their level of authority
• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Five (5) years or more of related experience
• Bachelor of Science with Mechanical Engineering major
• Intermediate/Advanced Level of knowledge with MS Office products, FEA, 3D Modeling.
• Knowledge of LabView, MatLab and/or CFD preferred
• Program/Project Management experience preferred
• Advanced level of skill with DOE (Design of Experiments), Material Properties, and Hydraulic/Fluid Dynamics
• Plastic Injection molding experience desired
• Manufacturing experience desired
• Intermediate level of skill with FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis), ANSYS, and CREO

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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