Quality Engineer

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.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As a Quality Engineer, 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:

• Supporting the Quality Management System and maintaining ISO certification readiness across multiple manufacturing value streams.
• Leading root cause investigations, corrective actions, and preventive actions to improve product quality, process capability, and customer satisfaction.
• Applying quality engineering and statistical methods, including SPC, Process Capability, Gage R&R, DOE, FMEA, and data analysis techniques to identify and eliminate sources of variation.
• Conducting and leading process audits, system audits, product qualifications, and process validation activities.
• Partnering with manufacturing, engineering, operations, sourcing, laboratory, and technical organizations to develop, improve, and sustain quality systems and manufacturing processes.
• Supporting supplier quality improvement activities, supplier corrective actions, and supplier performance initiatives.
• Leading continuous improvement and Lean Six Sigma projects focused on reducing cost of poor quality, improving process performance, and delivering business results.
• Supporting customer complaint investigations and implementing sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Providing quality engineering leadership for new products, process changes, capital projects, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Acting as a quality resource and consultant to manufacturing teams through application of quality tools, statistical methods, and problem-solving methodologies.

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 Engineering, Statistics, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution (completed and verified prior to start).

Additional Qualifications That Could Help You Succeed Even Further in This Role

• Experience in a manufacturing quality engineering role.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional problem-solving and continuous improvement activities.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems and audit processes.
• Experience applying quality tools including SPC, Process Capability Analysis, Gage R&R, FMEA, Control Plans, and Root Cause Analysis methodologies.
• Experience leading corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis and data-driven decision making.
• Experience supporting supplier quality and supplier corrective action processes.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), or equivalent certification preferred.
• Strong project leadership, communication, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting process qualifications, product validations, and manufacturing process improvements.

Work location: Onsite Clinton, TN

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