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Senior Manufacturing Analytics Engineer*

3M
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Feb 2026

About the role

Job Description:

Job Title

Senior Manufacturing Analytics 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 Senior Manufacturing Analytics 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:

  • Partner with internal teams to develop and deploy scalable analytic solutions aligned with 3Ms process improvement priorities using techniques such as anomaly detection, SPC, and predictive quality applications
  • Partner with business stakeholders to diagnose root causes of process issues and inefficiencies. Scope, identify, and execute projects, including cleansing and transforming existing process data to engineer innovative analytic solutions that improve operational performance.
  • Stay current with industry trends and advancements in manufacturing analytics and proactively identify opportunities to apply new techniques to solve complex challenges.
  • Work with plant technical teams and leadership to develop and execute long term strategies to improve manufacturing performance through advanced analytics.

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 of Science or Engineering degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
  • Three (3) years of manufacturing or data analytics experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

  • Master's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, or Computer Science from an accredited institution
  • Five (5) years of manufacturing data analytics experience in a private, public, government or military environment
  • Demonstrated experience applying statistics, advanced analytics, machine learning, or AI methodologies to address complex manufacturing problems.
  • Previous work experience with Python and SQL for process data querying, transformation, and visualization
  • Familiarity with tools like Seeq, Grafana, MiniTab, JMP and PowerBI to extract insights from complex manufacturing data.
  • Familiarity w/ manufacturing systems such as MES, Historians, ERP

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 20% domestic

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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