Process Engineer

Process Engineer - Cottage Grove

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

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 3Mers.

Our 3M Cottage Grove Site includes 625 colleagues and manufactures value added products including abrasives, semiconductor pad conditioners, specialty chemicals, glass bubbles, automotive nonwoven webs, and film.

This position will work primarily in the Advanced Materials Division supporting production operations for 3M Glass Bubbles.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Process Engineer in Cottage Grove, 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:

• Leading continuous improvement teams and product and process understanding (PPU) efforts to improve safety, cycle time, uptime, yield, service, cost, and raise the bar for process capability on manufacturing equipment
• Efficiently troubleshooting product and process performance issues, performing root cause analysis and applying systemic problem-solving skills and robust solutions
• Providing technical support to production and plant engineering resources to improve stability and reliability metrics
• Being responsible for strong leadership in driving EHS&R alignment, with the support of the plant safety organization related to the products, RM’s and process equipment
• Leading site and division management of change processes
• Leading and participating on site and division new product introductions
• Leading and participating on capital equipment projects
• Creating and maintaining standard operating procedures, work instructions and test methods
• Proactively communicating at all levels of the organization to drive direction and positive change
• Supporting a dynamic 24x7 operation through a willingness to be on-call

Your Skills and Expertise

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 an engineering or science discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Three (3) years of engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Three (3) years of product, process or manufacturing engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent mechanical, chemical and/or electrical aptitude and problem-solving skills; practical and hands-on, with analytical comprehension and data driven decision making
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Analysis Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Control Plans
• Ability to work both independently and in cross-functional teams from multiple locations and divisions
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and change

Work location:

• Cottage Grove, MN

Travel: May include up to 5%

Relocation Assistance: 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 on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum.) To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.