Environmental Engineer* (Cottage Grove, MN)

Job Description:

Job Title
Environmental Engineer* (Cottage Grove, MN)

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 an Environmental 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:

• Developing and implementing environmental programs/practices aimed to mitigate hazards and ensure compliance within the site.
• Interpreting, implementing, coordinating, and maintaining the regulatory compliance rhythm to assure completion of reporting and recording for applicable Federal, State and Local Environmental Permits, regulations, and programs.
• Analyzing environmental data, self-assessments, reports, trends and communicating findings and recommendations for correction of gaps to operational leadership.
• Developing a broad knowledge and understanding of external environmental activities and technologies and how they relate to the businesses of the division/staff organization.
• Evaluating complex regulatory challenges across environmental medias related to dynamic manufacturing operations.
• Establishing and cultivating a network of intra-divisional support to
• facilitate completion of environmental assignments.
• Communicating environmental projects and/or program status and results to operational leadership

Your Skills and Expertise  
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
• Two (2) years of combined experience with environmental compliance and/or environmental reporting in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Three (3) years of environmental compliance experience in a specialty chemical, petrochemical, or similar facility.
• Experience in environmental program administration e.g., Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Title V, TSCA, incident investigation, and/or risk management
• Experience with NPDES/SDS permitting and compliance obligations
• Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology,
• Environmental Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited
• institution
• Experience interacting with Federal, State and Local regulatory agencies.

Location: Cottage Grove, MN

Travel: May include up to [10%][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 asy