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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 variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

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

As an Application Engineer in our Abrasive Systems division, 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:

• Leading the way on application development including responsibilities for ideation, documentation, feasibility analysis, and validation.

• Troubleshooting challenges and optimizing the performance of abrasive processes at customer sites.

• Providing insights on customer needs as a member of 3M Product Development teams, collaborating on new solution development.

• Providing application support and training to customers, sales representatives, and industrial distributors, including in-person visits and e-media development.

• Developing new methods to evaluate abrasive solution performance.

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 (completed and verified prior to start) and one (1) year of experience in technical sales, application engineering, and/or manufacturing engineering (inclusive of internship experience) in a private, public, government or military environment

OR

• High School diploma/GED (completed and verified prior to start) and Six (6) years of experience providing technical support to customers in a technical sales, application engineering, and/or manufacturing engineering in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or Materials Science.

• Three (3) years of relevant industrial technical, sales, and/or customer experience.

• Experience in new product development and product/process validation during scale up.

• Ability and willingness to effectively document technical work and present results.

• Hands-on construction and fabrication experience, particularly utilizing industrial abrasives.

Work location:

• Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Maplewood, MN multiple times per week

Travel: May include up to 40% domestic

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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