Job Description:
Product Quality Engineering Specialist
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 Product 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:
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
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)
Five (5) years of combined experience Quality Engineering, Product/Process Engineering or similar, 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: On-site
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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
- Five years combined experience in Quality Engineering, Product/Process Engineering, Supplier Management, Quality Management Systems, Six Sigma, Statistical Analysis and/or Design Control
- Work on-site at listed location
- Legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship (e.g., H1B)
- Master's degree or higher
- Experience with ISO9001:2015
- Experience working with suppliers in a quality improvement capacity
- Experience with statistical analysis
- Manufacturing experience
- ASQ certification
What We Do
3M operates as a diversified technology company, manufacturing more than 55,000 products, including adhesives, laminates, and many more. 3M touches virtually every part of your life. Our people and technology make the impossible, possible. Every day we apply our science to enhance people’s lives. This is 3M Science. Applied to Life.™

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