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Site Water Treatment Operations Manager*

3M
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Apr 2026
💰 $201,193/yr($164,612/yr$201,193/yr)

About the role

Job Description:

Job Title
Site Water Treatment Operations 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 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 site leadership team member at 3M Cordova, the role of Site Water Treatment Operations Manager will play a critical role in setting and executing the strategic direction for the site’s water treatment processes.

Here, you will make an impact by being responsible:

  • to act as key member of site leadership team helping to ensure achievement of all production targets to satisfy business needs.
  • to lead, mentor, and enforce site EHS procedures/ practices and ensure site compliance to all relevant regulations, policies, and procedures.
  • to oversee the daily operations, ensuring compliant, efficient, an effective treatment processes while driving continuous improvement in all aspects of the operation.
  • to work closely with the water treatment technical team (Division Waster Treatment Manager and process engineers) to drive improvement, reliability, compliance, and to meet business needs.
  • to create and develop all aspects of the water treatment organization and personnel skill sets to meet changing business goals. 
  • to ensure water treatment personnel at all levels are recruited, fully competent, trained and supervised to operate within all relevant legislation and standards. 
  • to develop/monitor/control all agreed budgeted costs related to site maintenance to align with agreed site costs.

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)
  • Five (5) years in manufacturing, engineering, or facilities / maintenance engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment.
  • Three (3) years in manufacturing, engineering, or maintenance leadership experience.

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

  • Previous site water / wastewater treatment operational management experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in an engineering or technical discipline.
  • Seven or more years in manufacturing, engineering, or facilities / maintenance engineering experience.
  • Previous site leadership experience.

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.

 

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 benchmark

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