Product Developer

About the Role

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life. At 3M, you can collaborate with curious, creative 3Mers across diverse people, global locations, technologies, and products. 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 includes:

• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop high-impact innovative abrasives.
• Leveraging new technologies to develop novel, high-performance abrasive products.
• Applying scientific and engineering knowledge to solve complex problems.
• Building product concepts to demonstrate feasibility and partnering with manufacturing to scale up to launched products.
• Applying technical and leadership skills to generate project scopes, plans, and design of experiments.
• Strengthening 3M’s proprietary position through development of intellectual property.
• Utilizing good communication skills to inspire, influence, motivate, and teach other team members.

Requirements

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) from an accredited university.
• Eight (8) years of technology or product development experience with nonwovens, composites, and/or abrasives, in a private, public, government, or military environment.

Qualifications

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

• Ph.D. with technical expertise in polymers, abrasives, or nonwovens.
• Technical expertise in urethane, epoxy, or phenolic chemistries and chemicals.
• Comfort in hands-on experimentation, working with wet chemistries, and coating and web handling equipment in the lab and at manufacturing scale.
• Experience in technology or product development, including phase-gate commercialization processes and prior successful demonstration of scale-up to manufacturing scale.
• Experience in IP generation and strategy.
• Ability to self-initiate, develop, direct, and complete projects with significant impact to 3M.
• Experience with creating and executing DOEs (design of experiments) and use of analytical techniques in experimentation.
• Record of effective cross-functional team collaboration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, networking, interpersonal, and leadership skills.

Schedule

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.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $164,612 - $201,193, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. 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.

Benefits

This position may be eligible for a range of benefits, including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Health Savings Accounts
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Disability Benefits
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Benefits
• Paid Absences
• Retirement Benefits

Additional information is available at 3M Benefits.