Regulatory Affairs Associate*

Job Description:

Job Title
Regulatory Affairs Associate

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Certification and Conformance Regulatory Affairs Associate you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. The person hired for this position in the 3M Personal Safety Division (PSD) will be responsible for:

• Identifying the regulatory product certification requirements for assigned Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) portfolios and geographies.

• Preparing, maintaining and submitting regulatory documentation for product certification schemes applicable to PSD’s product portfolio in division and corporate systems.  

• Actively working with appropriate test labs, notified bodies, and agencies to submit products for certification, accelerate the registration process, and arrange manufacturing site audits as required to ensure conformance of products.

• Collaborating with business portfolio leader(s), application engineers, quality, manufacturing and other cross functional roles to provide regulatory/compliance input into PSD new product projects and conduct regulatory assessments for new products during the commercialization process.

• Engaging with regulatory authorities, notified bodies, or agencies with any post-market follow-up activities or issues.

• Performing routine regulatory tasks for new and existing products.

• Keeping abreast of changes in all applicable standards and regulations/directives.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) in an occupational health and safety, scientific, or engineering discipline from an accredited institution

• Three (3) years of regulatory affairs experience in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Master's degree in an occupational health and safety, scientific, or engineering discipline from an accredited institution

• Three (3) year of experience with PPE in a regulatory affairs or related role in a private, public, government or military environment

• Working experience in multinational companies

• Strong interpersonal skills and able to build internal and external networks

• Self-starter who can effectively work in a fast-paced environment, with an appropriate sense of urgency

Work location:

·        Work Your Way Eligible (Employee choice to work remote, on site, or hybrid)

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H