Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title
Manufacturing 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
The person hired for the position of Manufacturing Engineer will support the manufacturing operations within the Clarkston, GA site.  The person hired for this position will have responsibility to develop and define critical manufacturing processes for optimal safety, quality, and efficiency.  This position requires an individual with strong leadership skills, who works well with associates, who is a good decision maker with the ability to collect facts and facilitate good business decisions. This position also requires the ability to learn and master different software and measuring systems for the process.

As a Manufacturing Engineer, 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:

• Actively support manufacturing operations and associates
• Leading continuous improvement projects impacting safety, cycle time, uptime, yield, service, and cost
• Providing technical support to production and plant engineering resources to improve stability and reliability metrics
• Implementing and supporting capital investment projects
• Driving scrap rate improvements through prompt corrective actions
• Collaborates with other departments such as QA on improving manufacturing 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 in an Engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
• Three (3) years of manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• One (1) year of experience with SolidWorks and/or Auto CAD

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

• Five (5) years of manufacturing experience with demonstrated strength in engineering/technical skills in an aerospace/defense environment
• Machining Experience is a plus
• Training and experience in Lean Six Sigma/Lean/Continuous Improvement manufacturing methodologies, statistics, DOE, CMM/Programming
• Excellent team building, interpersonal, communication, both verbal and written, prioritization, organizational and computer skills
• Self-motivated, independent critical thinker with strong analytical, problem solving and project leadership skills
• Green Belt / Black Belt certification

Work location:

• Clarkston, GA

Travel: May include up to 5-10% 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 (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for ev