Job Details
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For more than 115 years, Badger Meter has provided strong, stable financial growth, in turn providing employees with the opportunity to build long, successful careers. As a leading manufacturer of flow measurement technology, Badger Meter offers many opportunities to measure what matters in protecting the worlds water and other precious resources. Our company is large enough to continually drive market innovation, all while we maintain a collaborative and flexible working atmosphere.
**What You Will Contribute:**
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This position is responsible for overall assembly process. General duties include building, assembling, testing, injection molding and packaging a variety of meters or meter reading technology products. You will be responsible for performing the various job functions as described below at an acceptable level of efficiency and quality. The work is completed through manual assembly, utilization of various specialty pieces of equipment, or automated machinery. Employees regularly rotate through various workstations within their home department and occasionally work in other areas of the facility depending on workload and customer orders. Responsible for observing safe work habits and maintaining cleanliness of work area **Major Job Duties/Accountability:**
**Meter Assembly**
* Perform a variety of operations such as assembly of meters, leak testing, meter testing, and packaging of meter products while following safety guidelines
* Assemble products, following work instructions ensuring the highest quality products, meeting company product standards, production goals, and customer specifications and delivery requirements
* Set up and operate meter accuracy and leak test equipment to determine acceptability of product
* Operate computer to check schedules, obtain part drawings, set up work procedures and update manufacturing status of jobs
* Work from dispatch lists or production schedules to obtain required daily output
**Molding**
* Perform a variety of tasks such as operation of plastic injection molding machines and perform secondary operations to molded parts such as degating, sprue removal and drilling
* May operate and tend to multiple machines simultaneously
* Follow work instructions ensuring the highest quality products, meeting company product standards, production goals, and customer specifications and delivery requirements
* Check parts visually and with the use of inspection tools, gauges, and coordinate measuring machines to ensure parts meet specified quality standards
* Operate computer to check schedules, obtain part drawings, set up work procedures and update manufacturing status of jobs
* Work from dispatch lists or production schedules to obtain required daily output
* Perform part counts and/or scale counts and prepare identification tickets for outgoing materials
**Registration Assembly**
* Performs highly varied register assembly, sub-assembly and test operations on electro/mechanical units
* Fits and assembles PC board assemblies along with register sub-assembly into register housing for various specialty application registration devices
* Works from simple assembly drawings, routings and standard procedures
* Uses equipment such as small arbor press, screwdriver, nut driver, hand soldering iron, ultrasonic welder and computer-run test equipment
* Tests assembled register for proper function and accuracy. Assembles cartons and packages registers/generators for distribution according to customer specifications
**Qualifications:**
* 1+ years of experience
* High School degree required
* Basic computer skills
* Ability to pass internal forklift and hazmat training if applicable
* Ability to work independently with little supervision
* Maintains open communication and positive working relationships with staff
* Basic math skills
* Ability to read, write and speak English
**Physical Requirements:**
Must be able to meet the following physical requirements.
* Must demonstrate the ability to perform a 40 pound lift to waist, 50 pound lift to chest and 50 pound carry test
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
locationMilwaukee, WIlocationMilwaukee, WI