Core Engineering Leader

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The Core Engineering Leader is responsible for leading product engineering across the full product lifecycle, with accountability for design integrity, product robustness, quality performance, cost competitiveness, and cross-functional execution. This role leads the division-wide CMP portfolio, establishing consistent engineering standards across the Personal Safety Division, and partners with business unit teams, Product organizations, BSC, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and external development partners to deliver business-critical engineering outcomes.

• →Lead the division-wide CMP portfolio, including portfolio strategy, execution model, prioritization process, and performance KPIs.
• →Establish and maintain engineering standards that strengthen design integrity, robustness, documentation quality, configuration management, and lifecycle excellence.
• →Partner with business unit teams and BSC to deliver core engineering capabilities, including molding, hardware design, digital components and related product-engineering competencies.
• →Manage setup of external development partners, suppliers, and contract manufacturers against defined expectations for performance, quality, cost, schedule, and technical delivery in partnership with procurement
• →Drive material and process standardization across PSD to improve product robustness, reduce cost, and support scalable execution.
• →Govern engineering documentation, configuration management, and change-control practices to ensure consistency, traceability, and compliance with quality expectations.
• →Optimize project cycle time, business impact, and resource allocation across the CMP portfolio and related engineering initiatives.
• →Assign and align technical resources to critical CMP projects based on business priorities, risk, urgency, and expected value.
• →Drive continuous improvement by reducing technology debt, mitigating product risk, and improving engineering execution discipline.
• →Build, prioritize, and govern a cross-functional pipeline spanning service, repair, quality, manufacturing, and product-engineering needs.
• →Own ongoing product support which may include digital updates

• Co-own CMP execution and prioritization with business unit Product Engineering teams, and supply chain teams.
• Align technology-development priorities with Product organizations.
• Champion robust engineering practices across functions.
• Collaborate with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and external engineering partners for continuous improvement.

• Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M in Maplewood, MN

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