Certification and Conformance Specialist

Certification and Conformance Specialist

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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As a Certification and Conformance Specialist you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. The person hired for this position in the 3M Personal Safety Division (PSD) will be responsible for the activities associated with certification of Hearing and Protective Communication Personal Protective Equipment. You will work as part of a global international team.

• Identifying the regulatory product certification requirements for hearing protection and protective communications products.
• Preparing, maintaining and submitting regulatory documentation for product certification schemes applicable to PSD’s product portfolio in division and corporate systems.
• Actively working with appropriate test labs, notified bodies, and agencies to submit products for certification, accelerate the registration process, and arrange manufacturing site audits as required to ensure conformance of products.
• Collaborating with business portfolio leader(s), application engineers, quality, manufacturing and other cross functional roles to provide regulatory/compliance input into PSD new product projects. Execution of the regulatory plan to enable product commercialization.
• Engaging with regulatory authorities, notified bodies, or agencies with any post-market follow-up activities or issues.
• Identify and execute operational efficiency projects.
• Performing routine regulatory tasks for new and existing products.
• Keeping abreast of changes in all applicable standards and regulations/directives.

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 (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years of regulatory experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Bachelor’s degree in an occupational health and safety, scientific, electronics or engineering discipline.
• Experience in electrical safety, intrinsic safety, RF
• Knowledge of hearing protection standards
• Experience with PPE in a regulatory or related role in a private, public, government or military environment
• Working experience in multinational companies
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to build internal and external networks and communicate effectively
• Project management experience
• Self-starter who can effectively work in a fast-paced environment, with an appropriate sense of urgency
• English communication in speaking and writing

• 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 or Indianapolis, IN.

May include up to 5% domestic/international.

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…