Senior Quality Engineer - Expanded Beam Optics

Job Description:

Senior Quality Engineer
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Mers 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 3

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

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Lead/support manufacturing quality improvement, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Maintain the EBO (Expanded Beam Optics) product quality baseline, including critical-to-quality characteristics, known risks, acceptance criteria, and quality requirements.
• Govern global product-level control plans, inspection expectations, and defect classification standards.
• Maintain the EBO product quality risk register across customer, manufacturing, metrology, application, and design risks.
• Lead periodic product quality reviews using data from customers, manufacturing locations, and failure analysis.
• Review product, process, tooling, test method, material, and site changes for quality impact.
• Support global quality triage when Menomonie production is involved.
• Ensure lessons learned from customer issues, internal defects, site qualification, and failure analysis are incorporated into controls and improvement plans.
• Standardize quality dashboards, defect library, and product quality reporting.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, customer quality, site quality, and metrology teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, and/or manufacturing (completed and verified prior to start)
• Three (3) years of experience in product and manufacturing quality, including advanced quality planning, process controls, customer issue resolution, manufacturing defect investigation, and product design risk management in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Three (3) years of experience leading or supporting quality improvement and risk management activities, including PFMEA, control plans, change impact assessments, root cause analysis, corrective actions, SPC, and process capability in a private, public, government or military environment.

• Experience with optical products, connectors, electronics, precision assembly, or high-reliability manufacturing.
• Experience with product transfers or cross-site process alignment.
• Experience supporting global products manufactured across multiple sites.
• Experience with product lifecycle quality, design change review, process change review, or product transfer.
• Strong cross-functional leadership
• Proficient in Mandarin

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 30% domestic and/or 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…