Engineer II, Manufacturing

### 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:

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:###
** Who This Role is Great For:
** This role is an excellent fit for engineers who enjoy bringing structure to complex manufacturing environments. You will play a key role in creating standard work, process maps, and documentation from the ground up for assembly areas. If you take pride in transforming knowledge into clear, repeatable, and sustainable standard work, this role offers a highly visible opportunity to make lasting improvements.

Join a team where your engineering curiosity and precision will make an immediate and measurable impact. In this Sustaining Manufacturing Engineer II role, you’ll be at the forefront of maintaining and advancing the accuracy of our water meter technology—leveraging test systems, statistical analysis, and metrology expertise to support production, drive improvements, and enable efficient, high‑quality manufacturing. You’ll be a critical link between design intent and real‑world performance on the manufacturing floor.

The Sustaining Manufacturing Engineer II sustains and develops water meter accuracy by applying engineering fundamentals to test scenarios, troubleshooting and analyzing tolerances on design in support of Badger's Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost goalsand objectives.  This will be an onsite role at our Racine facility. Regular visits to our various manufacturing sites are required with domestic and international travel necessary one to two times per year.
** ESSENTIAL

JOB DUTIES:

*** Lead the development of standard work, process maps, and Level III work instructions for assembly operations with limited or no existing documentation.  Partner closely with manufacturing teams to capture current‑state processes, identify improvement opportunities, and design clear, efficient, and repeatable workflows.  Establish foundational process documentation that supports training, quality, audit readiness, and continuous improvement across assembly departments.  Drive process improvement initiatives by turning observed floor practices into standardized, documented best practices.
* Support manufacturing operations by troubleshooting production issues and making necessary repairs in a timely manner.  Assist with current product support issues, troubleshooting customer and production issues, and validation.
* Operate accuracy test stands and troubleshoot as required.  Design and perform product and design verification tests.
* Lead large VA/VE or cost improvement projects using lean manufacturing tools and techniques.
* Initiate and implement engineering change requests.
* Ensure product integrity through the application of statistical process controls, high-quality process documentation, and sound engineering principles.
* Develop financial analysis and justification of new processes and equipment and initiate capital asset requests for such equipment.
* Research and integrate safe, reliable, and cost-effective equipment and processes that assure products are produced at established safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.  Identify improvement opportunities and drive to implement effective solutions for these opportunities.
* Apply project management process and tools to accuracy tester-based projects to ensure projects meet cost and timing objectives.
* Contribute to all ISO audits…