Materials Planning Manager

Why Badger Meter?

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 100 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. Just like every drop counts, at Badger Meter every employee counts because our contributions have a lasting impact on the world!

Here at Badger Meter, we believe that our approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion is the very foundation of our success. Our commitment is reflected in our core values, where we strive to create an environment that celebrates differences, encourages innovation, and ensures that every voice is celebrated and appreciated.

We understand that a diverse team brings a variety of perspectives and ideas, which ultimately fosters creativity and excellence. Badger Meter provides opportunities for career growth and development for every employee by creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where they can make meaningful contributions while preserving the world’s most precious resource.

What You Will Contribute:

The Manager, Materials is responsible for effectively managing Badger Meter’s forecast, planning, materials management, inventory control, and warehouse operations across multiple manufacturing sites. This role is critical in supporting all Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Culture, Environmental, and Continuous Improvement initiatives and metrics, including the ability to work with internal and external customers to support Badger Meter’s corporate values and goals and managing/mentoring a professional team.

Job Duties:

- Manage and optimize the planning data (forecast analysis and accuracy, efficient production scheduling of jobs on the manufacturing floor, and maintenance optimum inventory and production levels to support sales forecast and customer orders).

- Manage and optimize inventory practices (inventory reduction/optimization, inventory accuracy and cycle counting, etc).

- Maintain internal control system and compliance with corporate ISO procedures and training.

- Support the phase-in and phase-out of product families (managing the elimination of excess, slow moving, or obsolete inventory).

- Work with Bid/Proposal Department, Sales, Customer Service, and production sites in reviewing customer contract delivery schedules, develop production schedules to support large customer projects, and provide delivery dates for current or expected customer requirements.

- Interface with material planners at other manufacturing sites to ensure timely flow of materials where required.

- Account for materials required to build manufacturing orders by reviewing reports, communicating part shortages, and expediting to meet customer due dates.

- Lead and proactively participate in the review of missed shipments to determine root causes to prevent recurrence and monitors ERP systems to proactively identify and correct production issues caused by incorrect data, systems issues, and dramatic swings in customer demands.

- Provide ERP system training, leadership, direction, and training to the planning team.

- Oversee cycle count process ensuring responsible items are counted properly according to classification and accuracy level is consistently met per corporate policy.

Education and Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in production and inventory control or related field preferred

- 7+ years of related experience in materials, production control, purchasing, or inventory control desired

Qualifications:

- Advanced skills in Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system required

- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook required

- APICS (American Production Inventory Control Society) certification preferred

- CRM (Certified Risk Manager) certification preferred

Competencies:

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Aligning Performance for Success: Focusing and managing individual performance by helping others set performance goals, and then tracking results and evaluating performance effectiveness.

- Execution: Ensuring others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities; measuring progress and ensuring accountability against those metrics.

Working Conditions:

- Work is performed in a Manufacturing/Office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment.

- Depending on the assigned department, must complete an audiogram test

Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:

- 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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