3M Product Engineering Specialist 

United States, Texas, Austin 

118916750

Job Description:

Product Engineering Specialist

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Product Engineer, 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:

• Supporting and contributing as a technical lead for new product development and sustaining activities with an expertise in adhesive tape coating, tape backings, and material science and/or chemistry.
• Exploration and development of noveltechnologies/approaches
• Travel occasionally to our manufacturing facilities to to develop, validate process, improve product performance, and validate material specification, and enable NPI commercialization.
• Contributing to change management as it relates to product design changes driven by product modification, application development, life cycle management, product/quality improvement, supply changes, regulatory requirements, and cost reduction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex problems and to apply/implement new or modified chemistries.
• Multitasking and prioritizing various projects, as needed.
• May review intellectual property positions at the business level, including proprietary advances, ROI's, patents, trade secrets, etc. Documents experimental data/observations in technical notebooks or electronic files.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Three (3) years of experience in product development and/or manufacturing work in a private, public, government, or military environment.

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

• Master’s degree or higher in an engineering discipline or a physical science. Experience with adhesives and tape backings. This includes knowledge and experience in the following: performance, testing, manufacturing processes, and performance simulation tools.
• Experience with coating processes such as found in solvent and non-solvent systems.
• Experience with adhesive formulating and development. Knowledge of electrical properties of materials and related tests such as electrical resistivity, surface resistance and dielectric breakdown voltage.
• Experience with 3M manufacturing operations. Experience with developing material standards and specifications – membership or activity with standards-setting organizations like ASTM and Underwriters Laboratory.
• Familiar with PLM system for: RM substitutions (and the 3M change management process), NPI process, SKU creation, BOM creation, PFMEA, DFMEA, HOQ, test method development.
• Knowledge of statistics and experience with: MSAs, capability studies, data analysis (e.g., in Minitab or Excel), root cause analysis, Six Sigma.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision (self-motivated) and in teams.
• Ability to conform to shifting demands, timelines, and priorities.
• Willingness to travel (within the US mainly).
• Protect 3M Intellectual Property through the understanding and appropriate use of competitive technology awareness, government regulation awareness, supplier/consultant agreements, records of invention, patents, technical notebooks, and technical reports.

Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to headquarters at least 3 daysper week)

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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