Lab Operations & Special Projects Manager

Job Description:

Lab Operations & Special Projects Manager

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 variety 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 Lab Operations and Special Projects Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Supporting the Corporate Research Systems Laboratory’s (CRSL) operating committee and lab operations needs  (managing logistics and cadences of NTI Project Reviews;  support and/or lead initiatives to improve lab operations & R&D workflows)   

• Core member of the Corporate Research Lab’s (CRL) Lab Operations Management (LOM) team that supports the CRL Operating Committee.     Includes meeting monthly with the CRL OC and managing CRL-Business group alignment meetings & events, review cadences and logistics for CRL Priority Program reviews, and co-managing resource-by-project tracking.

• Leading special projects as assigned (up to 50% of time).  The initial assignment will comprise co-leading a project focused on digital transformation of R&D workflows for a specific technology platform in order to enable NTI and NPI acceleration. 

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 in engineering or science (completed and verified prior to start)

• Five (5) years of project management experience with demonstrated ability to lead complex projects in a private, public, government or military environment.

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

• Seven (7) years of project management and/or new product development experience with demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional, new product and/or technology development projects in a private, public, government or military environment, with clearly demonstrated ability to build and execute project plans

• Masters degree or higher in data science, mechanical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering or materials science from an accredited institution

• Desired skills include the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate up, down and across organizations, expertise in R&D, product development, and commercialization workflows and best practices (NPI, PLM, Regulatory, IP management), and broad understanding of “Digital R&D” (data science & engineering, computational sciences, data engineering and ML/AI), as well as, strong business acumen. 

Work location: on site at least 4 days a week in Maplewood MN

Travel: May include up to 15% 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.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

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