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Job Description

Job Title 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.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

Responsibilities

As a Quality 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. The person hired for the position of Quality Engineer will be responsible for quality programs of major importance to the corporation's initiatives in the Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) business portfolio.

This new hire will support SCBA global products by leading design for quality initiatives, partnering with NPI commercialization and manufacturing teams, supporting design reviews, product qualification, measurement system analysis, supplier management, regulatory compliance, and claim substantiation.

The hire will also collaborate with manufacturing and laboratory functions in support of change management, product complaint analyses, customer quality support, and root cause / 8D investigation.

Here, you will make an impact by :

• Supports the commercialization of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) products for global safety markets by partnering with local and global design teams and manufacturing plants to ensure design for quality.
• Leads, executes, and coaches as needed in product design reviews, statistical tools and techniques, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), test method development, raw material specifications, customer complaint investigations, continuous improvement projects, and supplier management activities in support of new and existing products.
• Collaborates with laboratory and global manufacturing teams to assure uniform and consistent metrology through Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), round robin correlation studies, and use of Internal Reference Materials (IRMs) as appropriate.
• Functions 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.
• Active member of the product platform global quality team and participates in regular meetings.
• Independently performs project planning and project execution.
• Develops a portfolio of tangible and documented contributions to the local and global team through technical reports, publications and presentations.
• Identifies, plans, recommends, and completes quality programs involving innovative applications and extensions of existing and new technologies of major importance to division business.
• Identifies product quality improvement opportunities and is efficient in evaluating hopper ideas, making project proposals, collaborating and executing priority programs.

Your Skills And Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications :

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

Work location : Monroe, NC

Relocation Assistance : May be authorized

3M is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.

3M does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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