PSD Fall Protection Quality Manager*

Job Description:

3M PSD Fall Protection Quality Manager*

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 diversity 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
3M Personal Safety Division is looking for a highly motivated individual to lead the Fall Protection and Head, Eye, Face Quality Organization. This includes deploying a culture focused on safety, regulations, and quality. In addition, to develop and deploy strategies to meet customer expectations and quality objectives.

As a PSD Fall Protection Quality Manager 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:

• Partner with / provide oversight to global manufacturing sites to drive Operational Quality excellence, working to identify and address sources of risk and variability (e.g. via process audits / reviews).
• Lead and provide coaching to global teams on the resolution of quality issues including product recalls and complaints, while monitoring and addressing root cause issues.
• Act as New Product Introduction and Change Management Quality Gatekeeper and approver to ensure robustness in Quality Function Deployment, test method development/implementation, and risk mitigation.
• Drive Supplier Quality improvement through the execution of governance plans based on risk.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement to drive customer satisfaction, safety, quality and achieve business and plant objectives.
• Develop and execute Health of the Organization plans.
• Actively participate on the Fall Protection and Head, Eye, Face Business Unit Leadership team to create cross-functional collaboration.

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 Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or other comparable technical degree (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Five (5) years of experience in Quality, Product Engineering, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement 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 mechanical engineering, Chemical Engineering, or other comparable technical degree from an accredited institution
• Five (5) years of experience within an assembly operation
• Three (3) years of experience with mechanical operations
• Three (3) years of experience building a Quality culture
• Statistical experience in DOEs, capability analyses, validations, measurement systems analysis, etc.
• Ten (10) years of experience in Quality, Product Engineering, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement or comparable experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Ability to take on complex situations and execute to resolution

Work location:

• Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Red Wing at least 2-3 days per week)

Travel: May include up to 20% domestic/international

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