Quality Engineer (Angleton, TX)

Job Title
Quality 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 experience to a 3M care

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Quality 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:

• Work with a manufacturing team that honors diversity and fosters positive partnerships. 
• Function as an effective team member and collaborator, embracing diversity and multi-cultural global collaboration, and promoting efficient working relationships across all functions.
• Support “Quality as a Competitive Advantage” within the division by promoting a customer first and sustainability mindset based on voice of the complaint, risk-based thinking, and error proofing.
• Identify product quality improvement opportunities and Product Process Understanding (PPU) and is efficient in making project proposals, prioritizing, collaborating, and executing priority programs. Identifying and tracking critical Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) [Lean Six Sigma (LSS) savings, Cost of Quality (COQ), etc.]
• Provide statistical insights through control chart analysis, manufacturing and test method capability analysis, and experimental designs.  Supporting the team in efforts in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Statistical Quality Control (SQC).

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 a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
• Two (2) years of combined plant experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, Quality Engineering and/or Product Engineering (private, public, government or military environment)

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

• Experience with quality engineering tools such as: (DQM, House of Quality, PPU, Statistics, APQP, FMEA, control plans, PPAP, SAP and/or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) documentation systems)
• Experience with change management, complaint management, supplier management, auditing [International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and/or Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• Certifications in quality engineering, quality auditing or quality management from American Society for Quality-ASQ™ certification(s) such as: Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP)

Work location:

• Angleton, TX
• Travel: May include up to 10%
• Relocation: May be authorized

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