Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

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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

Mers.

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

As a Senior 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:

• Providing Quality Engineering support for Global Product Launches as an integral part of the project teams to develop new materials that meet customer requirements with robust and capable methods and processes and ensuring the commercialized product design intent and product integrity is retained as materials, processes, locations, methods, and specifications change.
• Applying a working knowledge of quality principles and statistics to assigned processes and products.
• Supporting and interacting with customers throughout product lifecycle to address product quality requirements, specifications, complaint investigations and change management.
• Driving existing product quality enhancement through use of continuous improvement methods and tools, such as:
  Six Sigma, Product and Process Understanding (PPU), Design of Experiments (DOE), Customer Quality Index (CQI) and Quality at the Source.
• Troubleshooting, investigating, and analyzing for non-conforming product testing and disposition.
• Collaborating with laboratory and global manufacturing teams to assure uniform and consistent metrology through Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), Round Robin correlation studies, and use of Internal Reference Materials (IRMs) as appropriate. Assisting in the development of improved test methods, as needed.
• Leading, executing and coaching on product design reviews, FMEAs, test method development, raw material specifications, customer complaint investigations for the purpose of error proofing processes and driving to zero defect.

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 an Engineering or Science discipline (completed and verified prior to start).
• Three (3) combined years of experience in a Manufacturing, Production, Quality and/or Laboratory role in a private, public, government or military environment.

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

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited institution.
• Four (4) years of experience working in a quality function at an International Automotive Task Force (IATF-16949) certified facility, and/or manufacturing/production plant (private, public, government or military).
• Certification(s) in quality engineering, quality auditing or quality management such as:
  American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) and/or Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP).
• Experience running small scale investigative experimentation in a laboratory and/or pilot plant.
• Deep emphasis on applied statistical applications, continuous improvement methodologies, and measurement system analysis.
• Support and/or lead efforts on life cycle management, risk management, product and process improvements, and other product documentation efforts.

• 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.

May include up to 25% domestic and international.

May be authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B…