Product Engineer

Job Description:

Product Engineer

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 experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Product Engineer in Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division, 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:

• Expand product and process understanding for assigned products and new product development.

• Lead product and liner changes to drive unit cost improvement that expand gross margin.

• Lead innovation using new suppliers or materials to increase dual sourcing or regional supply opportunities.

• Drive technical understanding of release liners, their construction and the material science which enables them to support various tapes in the Converter Markets.

• Assist production teams with complaint resolution and reduction projects as needed.  Use root cause analysis tools to identify failure modes

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 a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.

• Four (4) years of combined product, materials, and/or process engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Four (4) years of combined experience in paper or pulp manufacturing including paper presses, calendaring, web handling or paper characterization testing.

• Experience with polycoating paper substrates and silicone release liner production

• Experience in statistical analysis and utilizing statistical tools

• Excellent communication skills (oral, written, and presentation)

• Experience collaborating with production or enterprise supply chain teams

Work location:

• Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.

• Travel: May include up to 15% domestic/international

• Relocation: 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.

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which inc