Wastewater Process Engineer; Cottage Grove, MN

Job Description:

Job Title Wastewater Process Engineer Collaborate with Innovative 3

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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 3

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This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

As a Wastewater Process Engineer, you will have oversight traditional wastewater treatment operations, including:

• Optimizing treatment effectiveness to achieve internal goals and discharge permit requirements.
• Conduct process modeling, data analysis, and technical evaluations to improve treatment and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain standard work and process control procedures for wastewater treatment Operations
• Lead investigation teams as needed to conduct root cause investigations
• Provide engineering support to Operations including troubleshooting treatment issues and recommending corrective actions. Must be available outside of traditional work hours to help address equipment issues.
• Actively participates in and may lead project planning efforts. Suggest changes or future direction as needed. Participates in implementing changes and future direction.
• Involved with the implementation of environmental stewardship, sustainability, and continuous improvement programs

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering disciplines (completed and verified prior to start)

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

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Environmental Engineering or Chemical Engineering from an accredited university
• Class A or B wastewater operator license
• Experience with wastewater treatment processes
• Experience with NPDES permit compliance and State and Federal water quality regulations
• Previous environmental experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting
• Experience with project management
• Experience with spreadsheet and/or database application programs (such as Microsoft Excel and/or Access and SharePoint)
• Strong communication skills, and ability to work effectively in teams
• Positive attitude

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…