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 120 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.
Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. We are committed to building a workplace where we shape a more sustainable future, celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation. 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 Engineering Manager WQ supervises a cross functional team of employees to achieve company goals as defined by the senior manager of the group. The Engineering Manager is a true management role, where the manager’s key performance is measured by the ability to create and executes plans, delegate, empower, influence, and track the technical staff’s ability to achieve their scheduled goals. The manager is responsible for defining implementation plans for the required strategy within schedule and budget constraints, and facilitates solutions across functions to optimize the effectiveness of the team. This role may supervise other managers or supervisors. Reports to a Senior Manager, Director, or Vice President.
Job Duties:
Provide leadership and direction for the managed technology group, by inspiring and motivating team members to achieve their best work in a positive work environment built on trust, feedback, collaboration and mutual respect.
Oversee the performance and development of individuals and teams, including hiring, budgeting, resourcing, structural planning and performance SMART goal management
Collaborates with senior leadership and other departments to define new products, goals, objectives, and strategies. Ensures activities are aligned with individual SMART goal targets.
Drives effective execution of the defined product roadmap and project schedules, and ensures everyone is informed, engaged, and aligned to plan with a sense of urgency.
Defines and tracks needed key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, using data-driven insights to measure performance and drive improvements.
Facilitates solutions to technical challenges and issues that arise during project execution, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
Manages Engineering process systems, as needed for ECNs/ERs, RMA, ERP, Salesforce, regulatory approvals requirements, ISO requirements, etc. and support for Service, Sales, etc.
Supports the professional growth and development of team members, identifying opportunities for skill development, career advancement, and leadership training. Assesses and manages engineering skill sets across team to align with development road map requirements and corporate growth strategies.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's Degree or completion of technical university education (TU, FH) in electrical engineering, electronics, physics or related fields.
7+ years of experience in managing developers and a very good network of colleagues, companies and universities.
Qualifications:
Very good knowledge of English.
Experience in effectively leading a technical team staff at a supervisory level, demonstrating solid decision making skills, leading to successful project time and budget completion. Highly proficient in checking validity of technical solutions and ensuring accuracy of solutions – focusing on empowerment and avoiding micromanagement.
Highly proficient with principals of Engineering in a specific technical skill area, as well as a solid understanding of Engineering principals outside their primary discipline. Understands conventional engineering documentation control systems for design and documentation at the corporate level such as source revision control, ER/ECN, ERP, RMA, etc. Highly proficient with principals of Engineering and detailed design in a specific skill area, as well as a solid understanding of Engineering principals outside their primary discipline.
Strong product knowledge of one or many product groups or technologies. Strong procedural and process knowledge within the organization. Able to identify, and convey, new trends, tools, best practices, and technologies continuously that could further advance the technical competency of the department.
Experience in training and coaching staff members, as required, to be more efficient in their specific areas. Ability to empower and inspire excellence in others, and commit to not only successful project completions but also to developing staff along their desired career paths.
Demonstrated emotional intelligence in conflict resolution for team, and strong consensus building strategies.
Demonstrated strength in inter-group collaboration skills, working with internal and external customers to rapidly create solutions and solve problems. Experience in working external groups and other functional leaders to support the team, including corporate groups external to Engineering (like Sales) or external to company (like regulatory.)
Strong organizational and project management skills, and ability to track and execute plans through delegation and empowerment, and frequently report up on status and budget. Experience in communicating status through scheduling and tracking team progress. Understands risk, and implications to project planning.
Strong financial acumen in support of project proposals, expenses, and top-level financial drivers of the Organization. Experience with basic product costing limits, such as margins and list price, as part of specification, and the importance to the organization.
Competencies:
Execution: Ensuring others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities; measuring progress and ensuring accountability against those metrics.
Aligning Performance for Success: Focusing and managing individual performance by helping others set performance goals, and then tracking results and evaluating performance effectiveness.
Decision Making: Identify and understand problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choose the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating, and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; take action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
Coaching: Engaging an individual in developing and committing to an action plan that targets specific behaviors, skills or knowledge needed to ensure performance improvement or prepare for success in new responsibilities.
Delegation and Empowerment: Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision-making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
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