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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.
The Corporate Director of Quality is responsible for defining, improving, and maintaining Badger Meter quality systems and providing leadership and technical direction ensuring the effective coordination and execution of projects as they relate to the quality of our processes, services, and products within our U.S. and foreign operations. This role is critical in supporting all Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Culture, Environmental, and Continuous Improvement initiatives, and metrics. This includes the ability to work with internal and external customers to support Badger Meter’s corporate values and goals.
Job Duties:
Establish capabilities in Group Quality Engineering - Quality Systems (QSE), Advanced Quality (AQE), and Product Reliability (RPE).
Direct Quality Data Analytics: Support a multi-site SQDCCE environment, establish and maintain quality metrics, guide a knowledge transfer strategy that creates "how to" manuals for users and developers.
Support New Product Development (NPD) teams to identify, schedule, and execute all quality related deliverables.
Establish launch/post launch data analytics ensuring quality system preparedness of people, process, and systems.
Provide Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) guidance to NPD, Group, and Site teams.
Provide technical guidance to create, review, and improve Badger Meter quality acceptance standards (QAS). Identify key industry standards and leverage them to drive uniformity within Badger Meter practices.
Identify opportunities for the improvement of quality procedures, product designs, manufacturing processes, and equipment. Continually drive to improve product uniformity while eliminating/minimizing non-conformances.
Provide direct leadership for the Group Quality team and dotted line responsibility for Site Quality functions in the achievement of departmental goals and activities.
Identify and support training needs with APQP, problem-solving, root cause analysis, process capability, measurement system analysis, and other data analytic techniques. Preferred problem-solving methodologies; 8-Step, 8D, and/or A3. Mentor group and site quality teams to develop skills and expand capabilities.
Establish and foster key relationships throughout the organization enabling effective performance to execute on commitments and deliver results while driving critical issues simultaneously.
Maintain a safe working environment (within the department and across the sites).
Up to 10% travel required.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related field required.
10+ years of experience in Quality, Engineering or a related field desired; significant experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.
Qualifications:
Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) and/or Shanin Red X Journeyman certification required.
Six Sigma Black Belt and/or Shanin Red X Masters certification strongly preferred.
Lean 101 preferred
PMP (Project Management Professional) preferred
Strong interpersonal and leadership capability with the ability to shape and drive change require
Ability to maintain professional level and technical skills through memberships in technical and professional societies, and by attending appropriate courses and seminars required
Intermediate proficiency with MS Office and related products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio) required
Intermediate knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) required
Intermediate proficiency with Statistical Process Techniques, Failure Analysis, and Process Validation. Advanced data analytic techniques utilizing Excel, Minitab, MicroStrategy, PowerBI, SQL required
Advanced Practitioner Lean - Six Sigma required
Intermediate knowledge in Quality Systems (ISO 9001, ISO 17025, AS9100) required
Advanced knowledge and Experience with Coordinated Measuring Machine (CMM) and Quality Assurance measure and test equipment preferred
Strong problem solving skills, preferred techniques; 8-Step, 8D, and/or A3 required
Ability to multi-task and drive critical issues simultaneously required
Competencies:
Leading Teams: Using appropriate methods and interpersonal styles to develop, motivate, and guide the team to attain successful outcomes and business objectives.
Inspiring Excellence: Driving high standards; tenaciously working to meet or exceed challenging goals; defining success by goal achievement and continuous improvement.
Establishing Strategic Direction: Establishing and committing to a long-term business direction based on an analysis of systemic information and consideration of resources, market drivers, organizational values, and emerging economic, technological, and regulatory conditions.
Operational Decision Making: Secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify business issues; commit to an action after weighing alternative solutions against important decision criteria.
Driving Execution: Translating strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
Working Conditions:
Work is performed in a manufacturing/office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment
Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time
Required prolonged periods of talking/listening
Must be able to stand or walk for prolonged periods of time.
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
Badger Meter complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local disability laws. This means that we will reasonably accommodate qualified employees with a disability if accommodation would allow them to perform the essential functions of their job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
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