Senior Adhesive Product Engineer - Expanded Beam Optics

Role Overview

This Product Engineer role in 3M's Expanded Beam Optics Business allows you to collaborate with innovative professionals worldwide and drive growth through customer collaboration, new application development, and product commercialization.

• Optimizing interconnect products, adhesive, and ferrules by driving Product and Process Understanding (PPU) efforts, leading strategic projects such as raw material substitution, quality improvement, or cost reduction projects.
• Leading and supporting change management processes and validating product performance for changes in design, process or raw materials through test plan generation and execution using optical laboratory equipment.
• Ensuring product performance and stability of existing products by leading product improvement projects through design modifications as needed.
• Driving scale up activities as a core team member for new product introductions.
• Maintaining product standards and specifications, owning the claims substantiation process.
• Collaborating with cross functional teams (product development, application engineering, business, manufacturing and quality teams), global laboratories and manufacturing sites.
• Utilizing strong communication skills to inspire, influence, motivate and teach other team members.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science or engineering field from an accredited institution.
• Four (4) years or more of combined product, materials, and/or process engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment.

Additional qualifications that would strengthen your application include:

• Master's degree or higher in chemistry, physics, optics or a related discipline.
• Experience working in Quality, Manufacturing/Production, Product Development or Engineering supporting connectors and/or optical connectors or ferrules.
• Experience with scaling up technology and/or products to large scale manufacturing, especially optical materials.
• Hands‑on problem solving mindset using laboratory equipment.
• Strong ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting critical deadlines.
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiments (DOE), and Statistical Analysis.

On site work model: employee must work at least four days a week in the Maplewood, MN office.

Travel: up to 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance: not authorized.

Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship for an employment visa.

3M offers competitive compensation and benefits, including Medical, Dental and Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability and Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences, and Retirement Benefits. Additional information is available on 3M’s benefits pages.

3M does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect access to information, systems or technologies subject to U.S. Export Control laws. Candidates must comply with applicable regulations and be identified as a U.S. person.