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Industrial Hygienist (Decatur Film, AL)*

3M
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Sept 2025
💰 $120,282/yr($98,413/yr$120,282/yr)

About the role

Job Description:

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 wide 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 environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As an Industrial Hygienist, 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:

  • Developing and leading site-specific industrial hygiene programs and activities and initiatives on such topics as hearing conservation, ventilation management, exposure assessment, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
  • Providing input for the annual Health and Safety planning cycle related to industrial hygiene
  • Coordinating activities and improvement efforts for the industrial hygiene elements of the EHS Management System through collaborations with United States and Canada (USAC) and Corporate Industrial Hygiene, 3M Medical and Facility EHS contacts
  • Staying current in trending activities related to the industrial hygiene discipline thru attendance of technical conferences, membership in key professional association/trade association teams, and benchmarking activities with peers and/or strategic partners [American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), American Council of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), American Chemistry Council (ACC), etc.)]
  • Monitoring regulatory trends and activities related to industrial hygiene that could have an impact on our site operations

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)

AND

  • One (1) year of Industrial Hygiene 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 Industrial Hygiene, Toxicology, or other science discipline from an accredited institution
  • Three (3) years of experience in implementation of comprehensive exposure assessment and management systems
  • Three (3) years of experience with chemical agent sampling and analytical method implementation/development including real time detection systems
  • Certified Industrial Hygienist® (CIH®) by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene® (ABIH®)
  • Three (3) years of experience with chemical and physical agent engineering control concepts and design that includes practical implementation
  • Two (2) years of experience with noise exposure assessment and control implementation

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic

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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