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Maintenance and Reliability Engineer*

3M
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Jun 2026
💰 $120,957/yr($98,964/yr$120,957/yr)

About the role

Job Description:

Job Description

Job Title
Maintenance Reliability 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(n) HANDS ON Maintenance and Reliability 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:

  • Perform failure mode and effect analysis to assure the proper Preventive & Predictive Maintenance programs are implemented, audited and improved on all existing and future assets.
  • Create and execute Preventive and Predictive Maintenance activities, ensuring maintenance plans are properly implemented, documented, optimized, and continuously improved for all assets.
  • Perform hands-on troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of mechanical systems, AC/DC electrical systems, PLCs, HMIs, sensors, VFDs, motors, and industrial controls using schematics, manuals, and diagnostic tools.
  • Assess & develop capability of mechanics on their role in reliability improvement and to advance their technical capabilities.
  • Participate in equipment rebuilds, overhauls, retrofits, and improvement projects to enhance reliability and extend asset life.
  • Perform & document equipment criticality analysis in support of an effective critical spare parts strategy involving the sourcing and ordering of parts and creating an organized parts supply room.

Your Skills and Expertise 

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

  • Technical degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) and Two (2) years of manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment.

OR

  • Associates Degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) and Two (2) years of manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment.

AND

  • One (1) year of experience with mechanical and electrical drawings.

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

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical,  or Mechatronics Engineering from an accredited institution
  • Five (5) years of manufacturing in automotive or aerospace private, public, government or military environment
  • Experience with reliability analysis, predictive (PdM), and preventative maintenance (PM).
  • Skills include… Strong communication, independent, strategic, problem solving. PLC, Automation, variable frequency drives

Work location:

  • On-site
  • Clarkston, GA

Travel: May include up to 5% domestic/international]

Relocation Assistance: Not 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 em

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