Polymer Mechanics & Characterization Specialist
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the job description.
Key sections:
- About the role / Impact: description of role, impact, tasks.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (the bullet points after "Here, You Will Make An Impact By ...").
- Requirements / Qualifications: "Your Skills And Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:" then list of minimum qualifications (Bachelor's degree..., three years experience). Then "Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:" list.
- Skills: maybe combine with qualifications? The "Your Skills And Expertise" includes both required and additional. Could treat as Qualifications.
- Benefits: "Supporting Your Well-being 3M offers many programs..." plus mention of benefits list and link. Also "Pay & Benefits Overview" link. Also compensation range: "Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible." So we have Pay and Benefits.
- Work location: "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." That's schedule/location. Could be Schedule section.
- Travel: "Travel: May include up to 5% domestic or international". Could be part of Schedule or separate but we can include in Schedule.
- Relocation: "Relocation: May be authorized". Could be part of Schedule.
- Must be legally authorized... that's a requirement (citizenship/visa). Could be in Requirements.
- Good Faith Posting Date Range: maybe not needed (metadata). Could be omitted as minor metadata.
- Employee agreement etc: maybe not needed.
- Links: we should not include application instructions; but we can keep link to benefits? The instruction says remove application instructions, but benefits link is not application instruction; it's informational. Could keep as part of Benefits section.
- EEO statement: remove.
- Duplicated lines: there are duplicates like "Pay & Benefits Overview: https://..." appears twice; we keep once.
- "Supporting Your Well-being ..." includes benefits list.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We need to decide sections: maybe About the role (impact description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Qualifications (minimum and additional), Benefits (well-being programs, compensation range, link), Schedule (work location, travel, relocation). Could also combine Benefits and Pay into one section? The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which to include based on content.
We have content for About the role (impact). Responsibilities (list). Qualifications (minimum and additional). Benefits (well-being programs). Pay (compensation range). Schedule (work location, travel, relocation). Skills maybe not separate; we could incorporate skills into Qualifications.
We must not create sections with filler/placeholder text. All sections we create must have substantive content.
Let's extract substantive content.
About the role / Impact:
Paragraph: "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 As a Polymer Mechanics & Characterization Specialist within 3M's Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. You will serve as a technical expert in the generation of high-quality experimental data and development of calibrated material models that enable predictive simulation of adhesives, tapes, and adhesive joints. The data and material models developed in this role will become foundational assets within 3M's Digital Materials Hub, where they are leveraged across product development, manufacturing, and customer-facing simulation activities."
We can combine into a few paragraphs.
Responsibilities: list after "Here, You Will Make An Impact By Performing hands-on mechanical, rheological, thermal, and multi-axial characterization ..." each bullet separated by line breaks. Let's extract each bullet:
- Performing hands-on mechanical, rheological, thermal, and multi-axial characterization of adhesives, pressure-sensitive tapes, structural polymers, composites, and adhesive joints to generate high-quality experimental datasets for finite element analysis (FEA) material model development
- Operating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving laboratory instrumentation including rheometers, dynamic mechanical analyzers (DMA), thermal analysis equipment (DSC, TMA, TGA), and universal test machines (load frames) with digital image correlation (DIC) systems
- Designing, developing, validating, and documenting experimental test methods that provide reliable, repeatable data for constitutive model calibration and simulation workflows
- Developing calibrated material models from experimental data and supporting their deployment within 3M's Digital Materials Hub for enterprise-wide reuse and adoption
- Applying polymer mechanics principles to characterize linear and nonlinear material behavior including viscoelasticity, hyperelasticity, damage, failure, and time-dependent responses
- Processing, analyzing, and visualizing large experimental datasets using Python, MATLAB, and other digital tools to fit model parameters, assess data quality, and communicate results effectively
- Collaborating closely with product developers, simulation experts, materials scientists, and customers to ensure characterization strategies align with application requirements and simulation objectives
- Training and supporting other researchers and engineers on instrumentation operation, experimental best practices, and characterization workflows
- Continuously evaluating and implementing emerging characterization methods and technologies, including advanced rheological techniques, full-field deformation measurement methods, and next-generation experimental mechanics approaches
- Communicating technical findings and recommendations clearly to multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
- Balancing laboratory, analysis, and collaboration activities across multiple concurrent programs supporting diverse businesses and applications
- Operating with a high degree of technical independence while maintaining rigorous safety, quality, and documentation standards in a fast-paced R&D environment
That's a list.
Qualifications (minimum):
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Materials Science, Polymer Science, Polymer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related science field (completed and verified prior to start)
- Three (3) years of hands-on experience in polymer characterization, experimental mechanics, materials testing, or related laboratory-based work in an academic, private, public, government, or military environment
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further:
- Master's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Quality Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited institution.
- Experience with reliability modeling, accelerated life testing, Weibull analysis, reliability growth analysis, and life-data modeling.
- Experience leading FMEA, fault-tree analysis, risk assessments, and Design for Reliability initiatives.
- Experience developing qualification programs for electromechanical, automation, robotics, industrial equipment, or power-system products.
- Experience with statistical software and methodologies including Minitab, JMP, DOE, SPC, and process capability analysis.
- Experience with regulatory, product safety, UL, CE, IEC, or similar compliance standards.
- Experience with supplier quality, manufacturing quality systems, and production qualification activities.
- Demonstrated experience operating and interpreting data from mechanical, rheological, and/or thermal characterization instrumentation
- Experience processing and analyzing experimental datasets using scientific computing and data analysis tools
Also requirement: Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status). This is a requirement.
Work location / Schedule:
- 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 5% domestic or international
- Relocation: May be authorized
Benefits / Well-being:
- 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.
- Benefits list: 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 link: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/
Pay:
- Expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, 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.
We could combine Pay and Benefits into one section "Benefits and Pay" but instruction says we can have separate sections Benefits and Pay. We'll include both.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines like "Pay & Benefits Overview: https://..." appears twice; we keep once.
Also remove "Chat with Max For assistance..." (application instruction). Remove "Applicable to US Applicants Only:" but we keep compensation range; we can keep the sentence but maybe drop the "Applicable to US Applicants Only:" prefix as it's not needed? It's part of the compensation statement; we can keep the range and note it's for US applicants. It's substantive.
Remove "Good Faith Posting Date Range 09/29/2026 To 10/29/2026 Or until filled" (metadata). Remove "All US-based 3M full time employees will need to sign an employee agreement..." (boilerplate). Remove "Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions..." (boilerplate). Remove "Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies..." (boilerplate). Remove "Safety is a core value..." (boilerplate). Remove "3M does not discriminate..." (EEO). Remove "Please note: your application may not be considered..." (application instruction). Remove "3M Global Terms of Use and Privacy Statement..." (legal). Remove "Before submitting your application..." (application instruction). Remove links to Terms of Use etc.
Now craft HTML.
We'll have sections:
About the Role
... (combined paragraphs)
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- ...
- ...
Additional qualifications (preferred):
- ...
...
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B).
Alternatively we could combine minimum and additional into one list with headings
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the job description. Key sections: - About the role / Impact: description of role, impact, tasks. - Responsibilities: list of duties (the bullet points after "Here, You Will Make An Impact By ..."). - Requirements / Qualifications: "Your Skills And Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:" then list of minimum qualifications (Bachelor's degree..., three years experience). Then "Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:" list. - Skills: maybe combine with qualifications? The "Your Skills And Expertise" includes both required and additional. Could treat as Qualifications. - Benefits: "Supporting Your Well-being 3M offers many programs..." plus mention of benefits list and link. Also "Pay & Benefits Overview" link. Also compensation range: "Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible." So we have Pay and Benefits. - Work location: "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." That's schedule/location. Could be Schedule section. - Travel: "Travel: May include up to 5% domestic or international". Could be part of Schedule or separate but we can include in Schedule. - Relocation: "Relocation: May be authorized". Could be part of Schedule. - Must be legally authorized... that's a requirement (citizenship/visa). Could be in Requirements. - Good Faith Posting Date Range: maybe not needed (metadata). Could be omitted as minor metadata. - Employee agreement etc: maybe not needed. - Links: we should not include application instructions; but we can keep link to benefits? The instruction says remove application instructions, but benefits link is not application instruction; it's informational. Could keep as part of Benefits section. - EEO statement: remove. - Duplicated lines: there are duplicates like "Pay & Benefits Overview: https://..." appears twice; we keep once. - "Supporting Your Well-being ..." includes benefits list. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We need to decide sections: maybe About the role (impact description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Qualifications (minimum and additional), Benefits (well-being programs, compensation range, link), Schedule (work location, travel, relocation). Could also combine Benefits and Pay into one section? The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which to include based on content. We have content for About the role (impact). Responsibilities (list). Qualifications (minimum and additional). Benefits (well-being programs). Pay (compensation range). Schedule (work location, travel, relocation). Skills maybe not separate; we could incorporate skills into Qualifications. We must not create sections with filler/placeholder text. All sections we create must have substantive content. Let's extract substantive content. About the role / Impact: Paragraph: "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 As a Polymer Mechanics & Characterization Specialist within 3M's Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. You will serve as a technical expert in the generation of high-quality experimental data and development of calibrated material models that enable predictive simulation of adhesives, tapes, and adhesive joints. The data and material models developed in this role will become foundational assets within 3M's Digital Materials Hub, where they are leveraged across product development, manufacturing, and customer-facing simulation activities." We can combine into a few paragraphs. Responsibilities: list after "Here, You Will Make An Impact By Performing hands-on mechanical, rheological, thermal, and multi-axial characterization ..." each bullet separated by line breaks. Let's extract each bullet: - Performing hands-on mechanical, rheological, thermal, and multi-axial characterization of adhesives, pressure-sensitive tapes, structural polymers, composites, and adhesive joints to generate high-quality experimental datasets for finite element analysis (FEA) material model development - Operating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving laboratory instrumentation including rheometers, dynamic mechanical analyzers (DMA), thermal analysis equipment (DSC, TMA, TGA), and universal test machines (load frames) with digital image correlation (DIC) systems - Designing, developing, validating, and documenting experimental test methods that provide reliable, repeatable data for constitutive model calibration and simulation workflows - Developing calibrated material models from experimental data and supporting their deployment within 3M's Digital Materials Hub for enterprise-wide reuse and adoption - Applying polymer mechanics principles to characterize linear and nonlinear material behavior including viscoelasticity, hyperelasticity, damage, failure, and time-dependent responses - Processing, analyzing, and visualizing large experimental datasets using Python, MATLAB, and other digital tools to fit model parameters, assess data quality, and communicate results effectively - Collaborating closely with product developers, simulation experts, materials scientists, and customers to ensure characterization strategies align with application requirements and simulation objectives - Training and supporting other researchers and engineers on instrumentation operation, experimental best practices, and characterization workflows - Continuously evaluating and implementing emerging characterization methods and technologies, including advanced rheological techniques, full-field deformation measurement methods, and next-generation experimental mechanics approaches - Communicating technical findings and recommendations clearly to multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders - Balancing laboratory, analysis, and collaboration activities across multiple concurrent programs supporting diverse businesses and applications - Operating with a high degree of technical independence while maintaining rigorous safety, quality, and documentation standards in a fast-paced R&D environment That's a list. Qualifications (minimum): - Bachelor's degree or higher in Materials Science, Polymer Science, Polymer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related science field (completed and verified prior to start) - Three (3) years of hands-on experience in polymer characterization, experimental mechanics, materials testing, or related laboratory-based work in an academic, private, public, government, or military environment Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further: - Master's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Quality Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited institution. - Experience with reliability modeling, accelerated life testing, Weibull analysis, reliability growth analysis, and life-data modeling. - Experience leading FMEA, fault-tree analysis, risk assessments, and Design for Reliability initiatives. - Experience developing qualification programs for electromechanical, automation, robotics, industrial equipment, or power-system products. - Experience with statistical software and methodologies including Minitab, JMP, DOE, SPC, and process capability analysis. - Experience with regulatory, product safety, UL, CE, IEC, or similar compliance standards. - Experience with supplier quality, manufacturing quality systems, and production qualification activities. - Demonstrated experience operating and interpreting data from mechanical, rheological, and/or thermal characterization instrumentation - Experience processing and analyzing experimental datasets using scientific computing and data analysis tools Also requirement: Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status). This is a requirement. Work location / Schedule: - 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 5% domestic or international - Relocation: May be authorized Benefits / Well-being: - 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. - Benefits list: 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 link: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/ Pay: - Expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, 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. We could combine Pay and Benefits into one section "Benefits and Pay" but instruction says we can have separate sections Benefits and Pay. We'll include both. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines like "Pay & Benefits Overview: https://..." appears twice; we keep once. Also remove "Chat with Max For assistance..." (application instruction). Remove "Applicable to US Applicants Only:" but we keep compensation range; we can keep the sentence but maybe drop the "Applicable to US Applicants Only:" prefix as it's not needed? It's part of the compensation statement; we can keep the range and note it's for US applicants. It's substantive. Remove "Good Faith Posting Date Range 09/29/2026 To 10/29/2026 Or until filled" (metadata). Remove "All US-based 3M full time employees will need to sign an employee agreement..." (boilerplate). Remove "Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions..." (boilerplate). Remove "Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies..." (boilerplate). Remove "Safety is a core value..." (boilerplate). Remove "3M does not discriminate..." (EEO). Remove "Please note: your application may not be considered..." (application instruction). Remove "3M Global Terms of Use and Privacy Statement..." (legal). Remove "Before submitting your application..." (application instruction). Remove links to Terms of Use etc. Now craft HTML. We'll have sections:
About the Role
... (combined paragraphs)
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- ...
- ...
Additional qualifications (preferred):
- ... ...
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B).
Alternatively we could combine minimum and additional into one list with headings