Quality Specialist

Job Description:

Quality Specialist

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 Quality Specialist, 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:

• Driving existing product quality enhancement through use of continuous improvement methods and tools, such as:  Six Sigma, Product and Process Understanding (PPU), Design of Experiments (DOE), Customer Quality Index (CQI) and Quality at the Source.

• Supporting and interacting with customers through complaint investigations, resolution, and trending.

• Ensuring the commercialized product design intent and product integrity is retained as materials, processes, methods, and specifications change.

• Supporting change as it relates to design changes inspired by quality improvement, source of supply changes, or cost reduction efforts.

• Trouble shooting, investigating, and analyzing for non-conforming product testing and disposition.

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 Science discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.

• Seven (7) years of combined experience in a Manufacturing, Production, Quality and/or Laboratory role in a private, public, government or military environment.

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

• Proficient in applying GMP processes and procedures to ensure consistent product quality and regulatory compliance, including experience interacting with regulatory bodies and standards organizations (e.g., FDA, ISO) to support compliance activities.

• Possess expertise equivalent to that which would be obtained in a bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or Materials Science.

• Advanced experience in a quality function, manufacturing/production plant, and/or reactive chemistries environment.

• Experience running small scale investigative experimentation in a laboratory or pilot plant.

• Deep emphasis on applied statistical applications and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Support and/or lead efforts on life cycle management, risk management, product and process improvements, and other product documentation efforts.

Work location: Cordova, IL

Travel: May include up to 5%

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 competi