3M Senior Quality Engineer 

United States, Minnesota, Maplewood 

868732235

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

• Works with multifunctional team supports the commercialization and manufacture of new products by partnering with local and global design teams (laboratory, business, quality, manufacturing, and supply chain) and working with plants and outsourced manufacturers.

• Drives Design for Quality efforts for new product commercialization and change management projects in collaboration with Lab, ADE, and Manufacturing. Provide expertise in Design Reviews and quality tools (VOC, LHOQ, FMEA, APQP, control plans, A3, change management, etc.). Ensure VOC is translated to robust quality plans that are seamlessly executed at the factory level. Negotiate specifications.

• Collaborates with laboratory and global manufacturing teams to ensure uniform and consistent metrology through Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), Round Robin correlation studies, and use of Internal Reference Materials (IRMs) as appropriate. Assists in the development of improved test methods and test method alignment between plant sites. Supports installation of new test methods at plant sites.

• Leads and executes customer complaint investigations for the purpose of error proofing processes and driving to zero defect. Skilled in use of root cause analysis and 8Ds.

• Identifies product quality improvement opportunities and product process understanding (PPU) and is efficient in making project proposals, prioritizing, collaborating and executing priority programs. Identify and track critical KPI’s (LSS savings, COPQ, etc.).

• Provide statistical insights through control chart analysis, manufacturing capability analysis, and experimental designs. Support team in efforts in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Statistical Quality Control (SQC).

• Supports ISO 9001:2015 and insures an appropriate level of compliance.

• Supports Automotive Quality compliance to Business Acquisition Process (BAP) and compliance to IATF-16949 and/or MAQMSR requirements.

• Supports quality compliance to aerospace (i.e., aviation, space and defense) products, including compliance to AS9100 and participation in audits.

• Support customer quality engagement, including customer visits, customer plant audits, quality communications, contract negotiation, etc.

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) from an accredited institution in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Science, or STEM discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum of two (2) years of combined experience with manufacturing, production engineering and/or product engineering with Quality responsibility in a private, public, government or military environment.

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

• Minimum of five (5) years of Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, Quality Engineering, or Product Engineering in a division, plant, private, public, government or military environment within a high-tech industry (automotive, aerospace, defense, electronics, interconnect, data center, semiconductor, medical, etc.)

• Two (2) years of Expertise in SAP and PLM documentation systems.

• Black Belt or Green Belt experience

• Expertise in statistical insights, including design of experiments, analysis and software (e.g., Minitab, JMP).

• Demonstrated expertise in leveraging global teams to implement complex continuous improvement projects across multiple divisions, business organizations and plants.

• Two (2) years of Expertise in quality engineering tools (e.g., Design Reviews, House of Quality, Product Process Understanding (PPU), Statistics, APQP, FMEA, control plans, PPAP, etc.), root cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone, Cause Maps, etc.), statistical process control (SPC or SQC) and statistics.

• Experience with customer interactions in a high-tech industry (electronics, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, defense, etc.)

• Experience in new product commercialization (NPI), including stage gate reviews

• Fluency with APQP core tools, including design FMEA, process FMEA, Control plans and key/critical characteristics.

• Fluency with change management process (CMP).

• Experienced in the 3M Business Acquisition Process (BAP) and product risk analysis.

• Expertise in complaint management and root cause analysis

• Experience with outsourced suppliers.

• Certified to or audit experience in ISO 9001, AS9100, IATF-16949, or MAQMSR.

• Certifications in quality engineering, quality auditing or quality management from American Society for Quality-ASQ certification(s): Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP)

Maplewood

• Hybrid (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to 3M office in Maplewood MN at least 4 days per week)

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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