Precision Controls Engineer - MT*

Job Title

Precision Controls 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 a Precision Controls 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:

• Developing, deploying, and supporting advanced, production-ready control solutions for ultra-precision manufacturing systems where performance is measured in nanometers.
• Employing creativity and engineering rigor to identify, account for, and mitigate sources of positioning error to ensure precision machines meet the application requirements.
• Managing requirements, providing cost and schedule estimates, and applying sound project management practices to guarantee successful delivery of capital equipment projects.

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 Engineering or a Physical Science (completed and verified prior to start)

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

• Possess a Master’s degree or higher in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution
• Two (2) years of experience designing and/or deploying advanced motion control systems for manufacturing applications
• Experience with precision engineering concepts such as error budgeting, ultra-precision metrology, error compensation
• Familiarity with linear motors, high-resolution encoders, ultra-low friction bearing systems, high- speed servo control
• Significant experience with CNC or advanced motion control systems such as DeltaTau, Newport, Physik Instrumente (PI), Polaris, Aerotech
• Electrical system design & documentation using electrical drawing software (ePlan, AutoCAD Electrical)
• Embedded software architecture and development (e.g. C/C++, .NET C#, Structured Text, TwinCAT, Labview)

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 25% 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).

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 competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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