Site Lead Engineer*

Job Description:

Job Title
Site Lead 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 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
As a site leadership team member at 3M Cordova, the role of Site Lead Engineer is to critically ensure that all engineering aspects related to maintenance, infrastructure, and capital across the site are fit for purpose.  These responsibilities are to enable site operations to not only achieve business needs but also remain in compliance with all relevant legislation and relevant company procedures and standards.

Here, you will make an impact by being responsible:

• to lead, mentor, and enforce site EHS procedures/ practices and ensure site compliance to all relevant regulations, policies, and procedures.
• to act as key member of site leadership team helping to ensure achievement of all production targets to satisfy business needs.
• as the local custodian of all national, regional legal and company engineering standards and procedures to ensure compliant site operations.
• to develop, monitor, and align and be the site liaison on all issues relevant to the site capital program and equipment handover to drive site engagement, meet engineering standards and meet financial goals.
• to create and develop all aspects of the site engineering organization and personnel skill sets to meet changing business goals. 
• to ensure engineering personnel at all levels are recruited, fully competent, trained and supervised to operate within all relevant legislation and standards. 
• to provide and lead engineering planning of the site infrastructure ensuring availability to meet business requirements.
• to develop, lead, and improve site mechanical integrity, site automation and overall controls strategy, processes, and systems.

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 an engineering or technical discipline from an accredited institution (completed and verified prior to start)
• Seven or more years in manufacturing, engineering, or facilities / maintenance engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Five or more years in manufacturing, engineering, or maintenance leadership experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Ten or more years in manufacturing, engineering, or environmental, health, and safety experience.
• Seven or more years in manufacturing, engineering, or environmental, health, and safety leadership experience.
• Large site lead engineering management experience in a chemical manufacturing operation.

Work location:

• 3M Cordova, IL
• Office / Plant Based Role

Travel: May include up to 5% domestic

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 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 employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).