Senior Plastics Manufacturing Engineer

Badger Meter - Where Every Drop Counts and So Do You

At Badger Meter, we're more than a leading global water technology company - we're innovators with a mission: to preserve and protect the world's most precious resource. For over 120 years, our trusted solutions have enabled our customers to optimize the delivery and use of water, maximize revenue and reduce waste.

Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. Here, your work doesn't just move a business forward - it shapes a more sustainable future. We are committed to building a workplace where we celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation.

When you join us, you'll find:

• Purpose-driven work that makes a real difference in communities around the globe.
• Career growth and development opportunities designed to help you achieve your potential.
• A supportive, inclusive
  culture where collaboration and creativity thrive.

Be part of something bigger. At Badger Meter, your contributions will ripple far beyond the workplace - creating lasting change for people and the planet.

What You Will Contribute:

We're seeking a Senior Plastics Manufacturing Engineer to serve as a technical leader in developing, validating, and optimizing manufacturing processes. This role plays a key role in leading and advancing structured engineering systems, improving process performance, and ensuring consistent, scalable results across operations.

You'll lead complex process development initiatives, drive high-impact projects, and help define best practices in process validation, control, and continuous improvement-while mentoring engineers and supporting production performance.

This role operates within a structured engineering system focused on formal process validation, defined control limits, and data-driven execution to deliver consistent, repeatable performance. It is heavily focused on injection molding and requires the ability to develop, validate, and stabilize processes in a dynamic production environment.

What You'll Do

Engineering Systems & Process Standardization

• Define, implement, and continuously improve structured engineering systems for process development, validation, and control
• Establish standard methodologies for process window development, documentation, and data-driven decision making
• Ensure consistent application of engineering practices across programs and teams

Process Development & Validation

• Lead complex process development, mold validation, and troubleshooting activities
• Develop robust, data-driven process windows that ensure repeatability and stability
• Align validation outcomes with production-ready process definitions
• Lead structured validation activities to define process windows and ensure processes are capable across expected operating ranges
• Apply scientific molding principles to establish and validate process windows

Process Stability & Problem Solving

• Provide technical leadership in resolving complex molding issues, including process instability, variation, and production disruptions
• Apply structured, data-driven root cause analysis to improve quality, yield, and efficiency
• Ensure processes operate within validated process windows and defined control limits to maintain stability, repeatability, and consistency across production.
• Work within defined process control frameworks rather than relying on trial-and-error adjustments, using structured methods to diagnose and correct process variation

Project Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Lead cross-functional engineering projects (e.g., scrap reduction, cycle time improvements, capability expansion)
• Support capital equipment decisions, tooling strategy, and manufacturing investments
• Drive continuous improvement efforts and ensure solutions are sustained and standardized
• Provide technical input during quoting and new program planning to define process capability, approach, and risk

Mentorship & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Mentor and develop engineers, reinforcing strong engineering discipline and execution
• Partner with Production, Tooling, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure process capability and alignment
• Provide hands-on technical support during…