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Senior Manufacturing 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 diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 96,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.

"A long-lasting career at 3M comes from having vision, imagination and the ability to see what doesn't exist. 3Mers are groundbreaking innovators and it's important that we give every person the space for disruptive and creative thinking." - John Banovetz, senior vice president and chief technology officer at 3M

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.

The impact the successful candidate will make in this Role:

The Safety and Industrial Business Group, Electrical Markets Division supports a broad portfolio of products for use in Commercial Electrical, Power Utilities and Renewable Energy Markets. These portfolios are supported by a wide variety of processing technologies and manufacturing capabilities including web forming, coating, slitting/converting, injection molding, extrusion, automated assembly and packaging, metal forming, electronics manufacturing, and tools/applicator fabrication at both internal and outsource manufacturing locations.

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Developing and deploying new technologies products and manufacturing systems providing new growth opportunities in addition to supporting and improving existing 3M products and businesses

• Developing subject matter expertise in value stream improvement and technologies to advance sustainable manufacturing processes while providing consistently high levels of service to customers.

• Applying fundamental engineering and supply chain operations principles to develop and enable end to end value stream optimization and improvement.

• Demonstrating leadership skills with new product development teams from commercialization process to launch.

• Leading multi-disciplinary, multi-site teams to implement and improve value stream design for products used in global Electrical Markets applications.

• Conducting cost-benefit analysis on manufacturing operations to develop recommendations and prioritize opportunities based on sound economic and technical principles

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 in an engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Three (3) years of manufacturing engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment.
  

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

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Five (5) combined years of product manufacturing engineering and/or lean value stream engineering experience
• Manufacturing experience with multi-component hardgoods (non-chemical product) manufacturing, sourcing and assembly, involving injection molding, extrusion, metal fabrication, component assembly, coating, converting, and operational process scale-up (Lab->Pilot->Manufacturing) and technology transfers.
• Manufacturing experience related to web processing, coating, inspection, converting, and packaging operations.
• Understanding of Lean Value Stream Mapping and Value Stream Improvement planning & deployment.
• Experience identifying new technology or value stream improvement by collaborating with a combination of internal manufacturing, vendors, third-party, and offshore development and manufacturing teams.
• Lean Six Sigma trained (Green Belt or Black Belt) and experience leading high impact LSS projects.
• Experience manufacturing products for use in the Electrical Markets industry such as power utility and commercial electrical markets

Travel: May include up to 20% (domestic & international)

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Remote work may be authorized for a U.S. based location

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 (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).

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. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at 3M Company's sole election.

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 benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Resources for You

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Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M's business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

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