Material Reinvent Product Engineer

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Job Description:

Material Reinvent Product Engineer (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As a Material Reinvent Product 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:

• Working alongside a multi-functional team to identify, evaluate, and qualify alternative materials used in Solventum medical devices, combination devices, drug products, and components.
• Collaborating with the Solventum research & development organization to reformulate or redesign input materials where needed to enhance performance or quality characteristics.
• Pursuing united goals with cross-functional global teams composed of members from manufacturing, product stewardship, clinical, quality, and multiple other functions.
• Visiting and forming great working relationships with identified third party and internal manufacturing locations to facilitate qualifications.
• Strategically requesting and managing confidential information internally and with third parties on a need-to-know basis.
• Leading or supporting major projects by maintaining clear project schedules, presenting status to multiple types of stakeholders, and driving the successful attainment of milestones.

Your Skills and Expertise

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

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution AND seven (7) years of experience developing, supporting and/or maintaining commercialized products in a private, public, government or military environment

OR

• High School Diploma/GED AND eleven (11) years of experience developing, supporting and/or maintaining commercialized products in a private, public, government or military environment

AND

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• Three (3) years of product and/or manufacturing experience in the medical device industry and/or medical device Quality Management Systems (QMS)

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

• Knowledge of change management, familiarity with qualification procedures (process validation, design verification), and competency in creative problem solving.
• Demonstrated knowledge and use of project management techniques to lead cross functional teams in projects that drive improvement and results.
• Experience collaborating with laboratory, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing functions.
• Statistical knowledge and practice [e.g., Design of Experiments (DOE), sampling, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Product & Process Understanding (PPU), Lean Six Sigma, etc.]
• Significant experience supporting drug or combination products
• Strong communication skills (written, oral, and presentation) and systems proficiency.
• Material science / process competencies in one or more of the following areas: (1) Adhesives / tapes (2) Solution polymers (3) Film extrusion and / or lamination of multiple substrates (4) Product and/or process liners (5) Nonwoven materials

Work location:
Hybrid (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to either Maplewood, MN or Brookings, SD)

Travel
:
May include up to 20% domestic/…