Senior Quality Engineer*

Job Description:

Senior 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 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

The person hired for the position of Senior Quality Engineer will be responsible for programs of major importance to the corporation’s initiatives in our growing Glass Bubble Automotive, Nextel Aerospace and/or other business.  This person will support EMSD/AdMD’s global products by leading product and quality engineering efforts.  He/she will partner with commercialization, quality and manufacturing teams to ensure new products are designed for quality.  They will ensure compliance to ISO 9001 and automotive/aerospace requirements (including IATF-16949, AS9100, MAQMSR etc. as appropriate).  They will support new product design reviews (including quality plan, raw material selection), d/p FMEA and control plans, SPC reviews, and change management programs.

• Works with multifunctional team supports the commercialization and manufacture of new products by partnering with local and global design teams (laboratory, business, quality, manufacturing, and supply chain) and working with plants and outsourced manufacturers.

• Drives Design for Quality efforts for new product commercialization and change management projects in collaboration with Lab, ADE, and Manufacturing.  Provide expertise in Design Reviews and quality tools (VOC, LHOQ, FMEA, APQP, control plans, A3, change management, etc.).  Ensure VOC is translated to robust quality plans that are seamlessly executed at the factory level.  Negotiate specifications.

• Collaborates with laboratory and global manufacturing teams to ensure uniform and consistent metrology through Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), Round Robin correlation studies, and use of Internal Reference Materials (IRMs) as appropriate.  Assists in the development of improved test methods and test method alignment between plant sites.  Supports installation of new test methods at plant sites.

• Leads and executes customer complaint investigations for the purpose of error proofing processes and driving to zero defect. Skilled in use of root cause analysis and 8Ds.

• Identifies product quality improvement opportunities and product process understanding (PPU) and is efficient in making project proposals, prioritizing, collaborating and executing priority programs. Identify and track critical KPI’s (LSS savings, COPQ, etc.).

• Provide statistical insights through control chart analysis, manufacturing capability analysis, and experimental designs.  Support team in efforts in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Statistical Quality Control (SQC).

• Supports ISO 9001:2015 and insures an appropriate level of compliance.

• Supports Automotive Quality compliance to Business Acquisition Process (BAP) and compliance to IATF-16949 and/or MAQMSR requirements.

• Supports quality compliance to aerospace (i.e., aviation, space and defense) products, including compliance to AS9100 and participation in audits.

• Support customer quality engagement, including customer visits, customer plant audits, quality communications, contract negotiation, etc.

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 (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Science, or STEM discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum of two (2) years of combined experience with manufacturing, production engineering and/or product engineering with Quality responsibility in a private, public, government or military environment.

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

• Minimum of five (5) years of Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, Quality Engineering, or Product Engineering in a division, plant, private, public, government or military environment within a high-tech industry (automotive, aerospace, defense, electronics, interconnect, data center, semiconductor, medical, etc.)

• Two (2) years of Expertise in SAP and PLM documentation systems.

• Black Belt or Green Belt experience

• Expertise in statistical insights, including design of experiments, analysis and software (e.g., Minitab, JMP).

• Demonstrated expertise in leveraging global teams to implement complex continuous improvement projects across multiple divisions, business organizations and plants.

• Two (2) years of Expertise in quality engineering tools (e.g., Design Reviews, House of Quality, Product Process Understanding (PPU), Statistics, APQP, FMEA, control plans, PPAP, etc.), root cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone, Cause Maps, etc.), statistical process control (SPC or SQC) and statistics.

• Experience with customer interactions in a high-tech industry (electronics, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, defense, etc.)

• Experience in new product commercialization (NPI), including stage gate reviews

• Fluency with APQP core tools, including design FMEA, process FMEA, Control plans and key/critical characteristics.

• Fluency with change management process (CMP).

• Experienced in the 3M Business Acquisition Process (BAP) and product risk analysis.

• Expertise in complaint management and root cause analysis

• Experience with outsourced suppliers.

• Certified to or audit experience in ISO 9001, AS9100, IATF-16949, or MAQMSR.

• Certifications in quality engineering, quality auditing or quality management from American Society for Quality-ASQ certification(s): Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP)

Work location: Maplewood

• Hybrid (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to 3M office in Maplewood MN at least 4 days per week)

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 (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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Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $119,076 - $145,537, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/.

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