Engineering Supervisor (Onsite - Columbia, MO)

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/legal/website-privacy-statement/applicant-privacy/ applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Description:

Engineering Supervisor

3M Health Care is now Solventum.

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an Engineering Supervisor, 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:

• Determining priorities and timetables, assigning resources/tasks, and providing performance feedback. Making recommendations that impact how financial resources are generated or spent.
• Coaching and developing engineering team for improved project management to deliver higher level of results and reduce project cycle time. Being accountable for the activities and results of their subordinates.
• Supervising development and implementation of functional and cross-functional projects, plans, and programs in support of business and strategic plans. Proactively communicating project direction and status to appropriate personnel.
• Developing solutions for multi-faceted, interrelated, and complicated problems, which require strong analytical skills and significant interpretation of data. Most complex problem solving may require conceptual thinking to assess options, making decisions by applying extensive experience and knowledge of related and non-related precedents, practices and policies to solve significantly different problems.
• Leading combination of manufacturing, systems, and automation engineers to deliver safety, quality, service, productivity, and growth (New Product Introduction) goals.
• Developing, creating, and supporting a high performing engineering team in a Medical Device and Drug manufacturing facility.
• Collaborating with cross functional partners such as production, planning, regulatory, quality assurance and plant engineering, to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.
• Performing complex analysis as well as ensuring compliance with established manufacturing principles.
• Handling non-routine and difficult inquiries such as investigating alternative manufacturing methods.

Your Skills and Expertise

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

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an Engineering and/or Science discipline from an accredited institution AND five (5) years of manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Supervisory experience
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers as well as peers
• Ability to influence higher levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing systemic continuous improvement using science-based methodologies.
• Experience in validation, nonconformance, root cause investigation, CAPA, Good Documentation Practices, supplier quality management, risk management, change control, and other elements of Good Ma