Product Developer
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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Product Developer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:
- 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.
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 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.
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.
- Skills include excellent written and verbal communication, networking, interpersonal and leadership skills.
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.
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