Application Engineer - Noise, Vibration, Harshness and Thermal*

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Application Engineer – Noise, Vibration, Harshness and Thermal

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 diversity 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
As an Application Engineer you will be responsible for providing engineering support for the general industrial and medical equipment market. This is an exciting position working in an attractive technical environment. This position requires an individual with strong leadership skills, who is a good decision maker with the ability to collect facts and separate symptoms from problems in the area of acoustics and thermal engineering. Typical development activities will take place in a hybrid office, Acoustic Technology Center, and in the field with customers.

As an Application Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading efforts to drive growth through customer collaborations, new application development, and new product commercialization

• Providing increased coordination of field trials with lead customers or evaluating local competition and marketing practices

• Replicating and developing high impact product/market application with a focus on new application development and efficient replication leveraging e-tools

• Leading programs of major importance to Aearo’s interests leading to and/or supporting innovative application and extensions of existing technologies, products, or businesses

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 in a Mechanical Engineering or related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.

• One + (1) years of experience in acoustics and vibration field in a private, public, government or military environment.

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

• Masters in Mechanical Engineering or related field

• Three (3) years of experience in acoustic and/or vibration control

• Analytical experience in Finite Element Analysis utilizing Abaqus

• Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) experience

• Materials expertise in specialized damped foams or elastomers

• Subject matter expertise in industrial acoustics along with measurement techniques and sound package materials optimization

• Excellent project management organization and self-drive

• Collaborative mindset and strong communication skills to act as liaison between sales and manufacturing, testing labs, and engineering

• History of leading NPI projects or product development

• Experience with UL and ISO standards

Work location: Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Indianapolis, IN at least 2 days per week)

Travel: May include up to 30% domestic and 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).

Export Control

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 (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens. 

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s). 
 
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.  The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at 3M Company's sole election. 
 

Supporting Your Well-being 

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. 

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