3M Senior Product Development Engineer 

United States, Minnesota 

735084846

Job Title: Product Developer

As a Product Developer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop high impact innovative abrasives.
• Leveraging new technologies to develop novel, high-performance abrasive products.
• Applying knowledge of scientific and engineering knowledge to solve complex problems.
• Building product concepts to demonstrate feasibility and scale up into manufacturing.
• Applying technical and leadership skills to generate project scopes, plans, and design of experiments
• Strengthening 3M’s proprietary position through development of intellectual property.
• Providing support to manufacturing organizations as needed to ensure product consistency and quality.
• Utilizing good communication skills to inspire, influence, motivate and teach other team members.

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 a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university.
• Five (5) years of combined experience in research & development (including undergraduate research, in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• PhD degree with technical expertise in thermosets, abrasives or nonwovens
• Technical expertise in urethane, epoxy or phenolic chemistries and chemicals
• Comfort in hands-on experimentation, working with wet chemistries, coating and web handling equipment
• Experience in technology or product development including phase-gate commercialization processes
• Experience in IP generation
• Skills include excellent written and verbal communication, networking, interpersonal and leadership skills

Work location:

• 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 10% domestic travel
• Relocation: May be authorized