Advanced Product Quality Engineer

Advanced Product 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 career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an Advanced Product Quality 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:

• Driving Quality tools in NPI to accelerate projects while mitigating risk by ensuring consumer needs are met, test methods are robust, specifications are well defined, and manufacturing processes are capable
• Supporting laboratory, products, processes, and systems such as addressing customer complaints and working with the team on corrective actions
• Supporting and interacting with customers and consumers through complaint investigations, resolution, and trending including monthly Quality Dashboard reports

• Troubleshooting, investigating, and analyzing for non-conforming product testing and disposition

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

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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 (completed and verified prior to start)
• Two (2) years of combined experience Quality Engineering, Supplier Management, Quality Management Systems, Six Sigma, Statistical Analysis and/or Design Control within 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 (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Experience working with ISO9001:2015
• Experience working with suppliers in a quality improvement capacity
• Experience with statistical analysis
• Manufacturing experience
• ASQ certification

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 10% domestic and international

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).

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.

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