Advance Product Quality Engineer

Job Title
Advance Product Quality Engineer

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.

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

As a Senior Quality 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:

• Working with a Quality team that honors diversity and fosters positive global partnerships.  Functioning as an effective team leader and collaborator, embracing diversity and multi-cultural global collaboration, and promotes harmonious and efficient working relationships across all functions and divisions.
• Supporting “Quality as a Competitive Advantage” within the division by promoting a customer first and sustainability mindset based on voice of the complaint, risk-based thinking, and error proofing.
• Driving Design for Quality efforts for new product commercialization and change management projects in collaboration with Lab, Product Engineer, Application Engineer, and Manufacturing.  Providing expertise in the NPI process using advanced quality tools [Voice of Customer (VOC), Linear House of Quality (LHOQ), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), control plans, etc.]  Ensuring VOC is translated to robust quality plans that are seamlessly executed at the factory level.  Negotiating specifications directly with customer and development team.
• Identifying product quality improvement opportunities and Product Process Understanding (PPU) and is efficient in making project proposals, prioritizing, collaborating, and executing priority programs. Identifying and tracking critical Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) [Lean Six Sigma (LSS) savings, COQ, etc.]
• Providing statistical insights through control chart analysis, manufacturing capability analysis, and experimental designs.  Supporting team in efforts in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Statistical Quality Control (SQC).

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 a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
• Two (2) years of combined plant experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, Quality Engineering and/or Product Engineering (private, public, government or military environment)

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

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a STEM related discipline from an accredited institution
• Experience in manufacturing and quality requirements in a high-tech industry (electronics, interconnect, data center, semiconductor, medical, automotive, aerospace, etc.)
• Experience working on a cross-functional team.
• High-Tech industry experience (Electronics, Interconnect, Data Center, Semiconductor, Medical, Automotive and/or Aerospace)
• Expertise with quality engineering tools such as: (DQM, House of Quality, PPU, Statistics, APQP, FMEA, control plans, PPAP, SAP and/or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) documentation systems
• Expertise in statistical insights, including design of experiments, data analysis and software (e.g., Minitab, JMP).
• Experience change management, complaint management, supplier management, auditing [International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001, International Automotive Task Force (IATF)-16949, etc.) and/or Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• Certifications in quality engineering, quality auditing or quality management from American Society for Quality-ASQ™ certification(s) such as: Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP)
• Black Belt or Green Belt experience

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/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).

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.