Senior Global Quality Engineer

Senior Global Quality Engineer

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

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:

• Partnering with/providing oversight to global manufacturing sites to drive operational quality excellence: working to identify, address sources of risk and variability, standardize work, and error proof operations.
• Leading and providing support to global teams on the resolution of quality issues including product recalls, complaints, nonconforming materials, while monitoring and addressing root causes.
• Quality support for new product introductions and change management process for source of supply and/or manufacturing operational changes to ensure robust product quality, test method development/implementation, qualifications, design reviews, and risk mitigation.
• Driving supplier quality improvement through the execution of governance plans based on risk.
• Championing a culture of continuous improvement to drive customer satisfaction and achieve business and plant objectives.

Your skills and expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years combined quality engineering and/or manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Two (2) years of experience working in a regulated environment along with ISO 9001 quality management systems experience.

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

• Master’s degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited institution
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a quality or engineering role supporting hard goods and/or assembly operations
• Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience with championing and/or deploying quality continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. LSS, QFD, PPU, Qualifications)

Work location: Red Wing Minnesota

Travel: May include up to 15% domestic/international

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).

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.