Jobs at 3M

Leads global market and customer discovery for new product opportunities in abrasive systems. Translates customer, competitive, technology, intellectual property, and manufacturing insights into prioritized growth spaces, opportunity hypotheses, value propositions, and NPI concepts. Partners with product, engineering, application, and technical teams to validate concepts and advance them through early NPI gates. The role requires executive communication, cross-functional influence, innovation methods, and comfort working in a global matrix organization.

Leads finance strategy for 3M’s Transportation and Electronics Business Group Commercial organization. Partners with global commercial leadership on strategic planning, profitable growth, pricing, cash flow, cost management, ROI analysis, risk mitigation, and resource allocation. Oversees a three-year financial plan, commercial excellence initiatives, standard processes, compliance, analytics, and global capability development. The role requires international collaboration, change leadership, and up to 40% domestic and international travel.

Leads the local Finance IT team and provides technical expertise for SAP FI/CO finance projects. Responsibilities include SAP configuration and customization, end-to-end solution delivery, service-level performance, issue resolution, ticket reduction, SOX controls, regulatory compliance, and team coaching. The role requires extensive SAP FI/CO implementation and support experience, finance and accounting IT knowledge, and strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills.

Coordinates enterprise supply chain projects by preparing executive materials, tracking action items and deliverables, managing purchase orders, onboarding contingent workers, and supporting leadership reporting. The role analyzes Excel data, identifies trends, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, and applies AI and transcription tools to summarize meetings and assign priorities. It requires a bachelor’s degree and at least eight years of relevant supply chain, procurement, logistics, engineering, or manufacturing experience.

Manages a Southern California territory for 3M’s Abrasives Systems Division, driving sales growth, forecasts, customer development, application processes, cost savings, and strategic initiatives. The role involves account management, sales calls, product demonstrations, customer training, business reviews, pipeline development, and collaboration with marketing, technical service, leadership, distributors, and national account teams. Requires use of Salesforce, a valid driver’s license, and up to 20% domestic overnight travel.

Leads CFD model development and validation for fluid flow, heat transfer, material handling, energy transport, products, and processes. Collaborates with engineers and scientists on multiphysics simulations, product development, process improvements, customer challenges, design-space optimization, and intellectual property. The role also supports advanced modeling using HPC, machine learning, AI, FSI, and reduced-order models.

Manufacturing Engineer responsible for improving safety, quality, productivity, and equipment reliability in a production environment. Duties include troubleshooting downtime and defects, leading continuous improvement and root-cause analysis projects, managing capital initiatives, supporting EHS and change management processes, analyzing OEE, developing process documentation, and providing engineering support. Requires a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering and two years of manufacturing experience.

Leads capital engineering projects supporting growth, cost reduction, EHS improvements, and equipment or facility renewal. Coordinates electrical, facilities, design, technical, and operations teams while managing project scope, budgets, schedules, forecasts, communications, and financial analysis. The role requires engineering, manufacturing, or project management experience, with preferred expertise in capital equipment, facilities projects, and manufacturing equipment such as webline, extrusion, material handling, or inspection systems.

Develops and commercializes new adhesive tape products for consumer electronics. Supports new product introduction, scale-up, process optimization, quality investigations, cost reduction, supply chain improvements, change management, CAPA activities, and manufacturing safety initiatives. The role leads or supports cross-functional improvement projects, analyzes material and process data, assists with customer complaint resolution, and participates in operational strategy and on-call support for serious quality or service issues.

Manages and grows strategic industrial key accounts for 3M’s adhesives and tapes division. Responsibilities include developing account plans, identifying growth opportunities, leading customer automation initiatives, coordinating complex cross-functional projects, forecasting, tracking performance, managing the sales pipeline in CRM, and analyzing sales data. This field-based role requires frequent domestic travel, primarily across Northern Italy.

Manage global trademark clearance, prosecution, portfolio maintenance, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, and trademark-related transactions. Collaborate with business clients and outside counsel on global trademark and copyright matters, including licensing, divestments, and acquisitions. The role requires domestic and foreign trademark experience, docketing expertise, strong communication and project management skills, and on-site work at 3M’s Maplewood, Minnesota location.

Coordinates enterprise label creation and modification across manufacturing and distribution systems. Validates data, manages approvals, conducts test prints, tracks SLA completion, maintains dashboards, resolves issues, and collaborates with Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, R&D, Quality, and other stakeholders. Ensures compliance with labeling policies, ISO and QMS standards while identifying improvements to data quality and process efficiency.

Lead product stewardship and regulatory compliance for 3M products sold in the UK and EU. Responsibilities include approving new products, interpreting REACH, RoHS, biocidal, conflict minerals, and other requirements, preparing compliance documentation, responding to regulatory inquiries, monitoring changing regulations, and improving compliance workflows, data quality, and automation. The role requires collaboration with internal and external stakeholders across EMEA and is based onsite in Bracknell at least four days per week.

Coordinates outsourced analytical testing from proposals and sample collection through report verification, quality issue resolution, archiving, and invoice approval. The role manages chain-of-custody, monitors laboratory turnaround times, audits reports against project requirements, reviews analytical methods and quality objectives, and performs quote, purchase order, and invoice reconciliation. It requires strong administrative, data auditing, vendor coordination, analytical testing, spreadsheet, and bilingual Dutch-English communication skills.

Manage supplier and outside-vendor quality, in-process production controls, control plans, metrology, inspection plans, SOP standardization, customer complaints, and root-cause corrective actions. Oversee Management of Change and calibration programs, support quality improvement projects, and contribute to EHS compliance. Apply SPC and quality systems knowledge in production and customer-facing activities.

Develop and execute industry-specific marketing strategies to drive revenue and market share. Research customer needs, build industry personas, analyze competitors and market trends, and create reports supporting product and solution decisions. Plan vertical marketing events, develop whitepapers and case studies, build content libraries, support sales enablement, and coordinate with sales, product, and R&D teams to launch industry solutions.

Plans and schedules production, monitors work center output, places and manages purchase orders, maintains planning parameters, resolves material and capacity constraints, tracks service and inventory metrics, supports product phase-ins and phase-outs, manages inventory, and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives.

Manages capital projects from planning through execution, including timelines, budgets, cost estimates, cross-functional coordination, equipment installation, commissioning, and supplier engagement. The role works with plant personnel, consultants, and multiple engineering disciplines while protecting intellectual property and supporting safety and EHS compliance. It requires an engineering or science degree and experience in engineering, manufacturing, or project management, preferably involving capital equipment, facilities, automation, or custom equipment.

Leads enterprise IT projects addressing application vulnerabilities, technical debt, modernization, platform risk, and stability. Partners with cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, application, vendor, and business teams to create remediation plans, manage timelines and dependencies, prioritize technical debt, coordinate upgrades and decommissioning, and track progress against risk thresholds and service expectations. The role requires six years of enterprise IT project experience and primarily onsite work in Maplewood, Minnesota.

Leads global Voice of Market efforts to identify and validate new growth opportunities. Conducts customer, competitive, trend, segmentation, sizing, and AI-supported analyses; develops opportunity hypotheses, value propositions, target markets, and early business cases. Partners with product, technical, commercial, and cross-functional teams to advance concepts through NPI gates and influence investment decisions. The role is on-site in Maplewood, Minnesota, with up to 30% domestic and international travel.