Senior Product Engineer

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum 

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.  

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you. 

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
 

As a Senior Product Engineer located in St Paul, MN or Brooking, SD you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse technical people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading design-related change control and the associated product changes driven by product/quality/process improvement, supply changes, and regulatory requirements, etc.
• Drive and support continuous improvement mindset by using multitude of methodologies that include project management (PMP), Agile/SCRUM, Product and Process Understanding (PPU), Six Sigma, and DOE/statistical analysis
• Experience collaborating with laboratory, quality and/or manufacturing colleagues in other regions of the world
• Maintaining product design documentation in compliance with division Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other regulatory requirements
• Other duties as assigned

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Polymer Engineering, Materials Science or related discipline from an accredited institution  

Or

• High School Diploma/GED or Associate’s Degree/Technical Diploma from an accredited institution and three (3) combined years of engineering, manufacturing, and/or project management in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Five (5) years of experience in one or more of the following areas: product engineering, product commercialization, product research and development, and/or manufacturing experience in the medical device industry
• Experience with the effective execution of change management, root cause analysis, issue resolution and/or managing corrective and preventative actions
• Medical device and/or Quality Management System (QMS) experience such as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Quality System Regulation (QSR) and/or International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 13485
• Demonstrated experience utilizing project management techniques to lead cross functional teams in projects that drive improvement and proven results
• Experience collaborating with laboratory, quality and/or manufacturing colleagues in other regions of the world
• Experience with test method development, material property data collection and/or setting specifications and translating into product requirements
• Supporting complaint, plant non-conformance, and Supplier Corrective Action Request (SCAR) investigations, as well as external quality system and technical audits
• Statistical knowledge and practice [e.g., Design of Experiments (DOE), sampling, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Product & Process Understanding (PPU), Lean manufacturing, etc.]

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