Advanced Quality Engineering Specialist

Job Description:

Advanced Quality Engineering Specialist

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 an Advanced Quality Engineering Specialist, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by: 

• Driving Quality tools in NPI to accelerate projects while mitigating risk by ensuring consumer needs are met, test methods are robust, specifications are well defined, and manufacturing processes are capable.  This includes providing input or leading House of Quality (HOQ) / DQM, MSA, product qualifications, PPAP, PFMEA/DFMEA, and phase gate quality preparation 

• Assuring compliance to external regulations, customer requirements, internal requirement, and industry standards (ISO9001, IATF16949 or other). 

• Analyzing information using statistical techniques to drive data driven decisions by being a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in statistical techniques. 

• Promoting continuous improvement and defect reduction through root cause investigation, CAPA, kaizen, 8D, FMEA, MSA, Product & Process Understanding (PPU), Design of Experiments, and Control Plans.   

• Reviewing customer product complaints for timely customer feedback and resolution. 

• Supporting existing product evolution and improvement through change management (CMP). 

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). 

• Proficient experience in a quality or manufacturing setting in a private, public, government or military environment.  

  

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

• Master's degree or higher from an accredited institution  

• Advanced expertise across multiple quality disciplines, such as quality assurance, product quality control, incoming inspection, Six Sigma, ISO standards, and warranty analysis.  

• Experience administering and maintaining ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.  

• Strong project management capabilities, with a track record of leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives.  

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively engage senior leadership, peers, teams, customers, and regulatory stakeholders.  

• Proficiency with corporate systems and digital tools commonly used in Quality functions, along with strong English verbal and written communication skills.  

• Experience with Statistical Process Control and other advanced analytical methods used to manage and improve quality performance.  

  

Work location: Global - local to a 3M office (Maplewood, MN / APAC / Shanghai, CN / Taiwan / Japan) 

Travel: May include up to 15% domestic/international  

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized   

  

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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