Application Engineer - Personal Protective Equipment (m/f/*)

As an Application Engineer in the Personal Safety Division for the Netherlands and Belgium, you will have the opportunity to apply your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing customer-facing technical guidance, serving as the primary application engineer for consultancy on product performance, regulatory requirements, and applicable standards for 3M Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

• Delivering tailored evaluations, demonstrations, and trials at customer sites to validate PPE application fit, optimize outcomes, and accelerate adoption.

• Assessing customer use conditions, compliance needs, and hazard considerations to recommend the most suitable solution from our portfolio, including configurations, accessories and care and maintenance guidelines.

• Supporting the sales cycle (pre- and post-sale) with technical proposals, compliance mappings (PPE Regulation), and risk-mitigation recommendations that enable confident product selection.

• Collaborating with account managers, marketing, product development, and regulatory affairs to align on customer requirements, to deploy solutions efficiently and to drive safety culture development throughout all industries.

• Advancing application-engineering best practices and worker health and safety through customer trainings, webinars, 3rd party engagement and technical content that reinforce our credibility with customers.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who meet following minimum requirements:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in chemistry or related sciences.

• Experience related to occupational health and safety.

• Familiarity with general health and safety regulations in the Netherlands and Belgium and the willingness to elevate that knowledge.

• Ability to interact as an effective intermediary between 3M and customers at all levels.

• Fluent in Dutch English and ideally also French.

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

• Safety engineering background

• Remote location supported
• Travel expectations: May include up to 40% travel, mostly across Netherlands and Belgium
• Full time

For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers. If you have further questions please reach out to Max (our AI Virtual Assistant) via our Career Page.

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