Product Development Engineer

Job Description:

Product Development 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 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 environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Product Development 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:

• Supporting global and regional NPI efforts in scaling up and commercializing new tapes adhesives in consumer electronics industry.
• Leading or supporting cross-functional teams to drive cost, quality, service and safety improvement projects and metrics as well as problem-solving projects.
• Managing documentation of change management for key projects and tasks, including Product and Process Understanding (PPU), Product and Process Experiments (PPE), Management of Change Requests (MOC), participating in quality investigations, CAPAs, and any other operational changes or tasks that need to be executed.
• Determining cost savings and supply chain improvement opportunities and helps prioritize within the product sub teams.
• Supporting the quality team in reducing customer complaints, improving the cost of poor quality, and help investigate and mitigate unexpected issues as they arise.
• Supporting the manufacturing plants in their effort to resolve safety issues and preventively work to make the production areas safer and eliminate lost time incidents.
• Helping develop long-term strategies for support of various operational activities and priorities.
• Willingness to be on-call in the event of severe service or quality issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

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 science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Four (4) years of experience in a private, public, government, or military environment in one of more of the following areas: gathering material process data, computer added design, product information, or material property information in a private, public, government or military environment  

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

• Master’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Polymer Science, Polymer Engineering, Materials Science, from an accredited institution
• Experience in one or more of the following: coating and drying of films, mixing operations
• (including high shear processes), process optimization, unit cost modeling, other manufacturing processes
• Experience utilizing statistical tools in problem solving
• Utilization of the Six Sigma methodology
• Experience on New Product Development and/or Commercialization Teams
• Experience with Quality Improvement and/or Cost Reduction projects

Work location:

• Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.

Travel: May include up to 20% domestic/international

Relocation: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being
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