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Application Engineering Specialist

3M

Maplewood, MN, US$146k – $178konsite

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Job Title Application Engineering Specialist

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World 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.

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 The person hired for the position of Application Engineering Specialist will drive new applications utilizing the broad portfolio of adhesives and tapes offered by Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division (IATD) within the United States and Canada.   This position will provide technical support to achieve growth and solve complex customer design challenges.   Work includes engaging with customers, field sales, and marketing to provide technical expertise; including application development, creating technical information, gaining customer-specific needs & insights, and performing product and application characterization.   This position will also have responsibility to partner with customers on adhesive and tape dispensing and automation projects.  Join us to help our customers remake the world of making things.

This lab is International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified.

For additional information, please visit: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/bonding-and-assembly-us/

As a Application Engineering Specialist you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by: • Driving core and new 3M adhesive and tape products to win new bonding applications in the industrial marketplace

• Developing new application solutions aligned to customer needs

• Building a deep understanding of state-of-the-art technologies in adhesive and tape dispensing and automation

• Training customers, sales reps, and international colleagues

• Creating new application demonstration tools

• Collaborating with product development, product engineering, marketing, and field sales

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 institution.

• Minimum five (5) years of laboratory, technical, or applied science experience in a private, public, government, or military environment.

• At least one (1) year experience applying technical expertise in a customer-facing, field support, product development, or technical service capacity.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or Polymer Science from an accredited institution

• Five (5) years of experience working with tapes and/or adhesives

• Two (2) years of experience in application engineering

• Experience with adhesive and tape dispensing, dispensing equipment and/or automation

• Experience problem solving or trouble shooting

Work location: • 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.

Travel: May include up to 25% Domestic Relocation Assistance: Not 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. 

Resources for You   For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers. 

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only.  Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.  The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at 3M Company's sole election.

Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, ski

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