Global Product Developer: Abrasives & Polymers

3M; Minnesota; On-site; USD 165,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Health Savings Account

Disability Benefits

Life Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Paid Absences

Job summary

3M is seeking a Product Developer to collaborate with a global team and translate scientific insights into market-ready abrasive products. You will work across disciplines to explore new technologies, design experiments, and scale concepts to manufacturing, influencing product directions and proprietary IP creation.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive projects from concept to scale in a fast-paced environment at the Maplewood, MN site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university.
• Eight (8) years of technology or product development experience with nonwovens, composites, and/or abrasives, in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Ph.D. with technical expertise in polymers, abrasives, or nonwovens.
• Technical expertise in urethane, epoxy, or phenolic chemistries and chemicals.
• Hands-on experimentation with wet chemistries and coating/web handling equipment in lab and manufacturing scale.
• Experience in phase-gate commercialization and scale-up to manufacturing scale.
• Experience in IP generation and strategy.
• Ability to self-initiate, develop, direct, and complete projects with significant impact to 3M.
• Experience with DOEs and analytical techniques in experimentation.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and excellent written/verbal communication, networking, interpersonal and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop high impact innovative abrasives.
• Leveraging new technologies to develop novel, high-performance abrasive products.
• Applying scientific and engineering knowledge to solve complex problems.
• Building product concepts to demonstrate feasibility and partnering with manufacturing to scale up to launched products.
• Applying technical and leadership skills to generate project scopes, plans, and design of experiments.
• Strengthening 3M’s proprietary position through development of intellectual property.
• Utilizing good communication skills to inspire, influence, motivate and teach other team members.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

DOE (Design of Experiments)

IP generation & strategy

Self-initiative

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in science/engineering

Eight years in tech/product development (nonwovens/composites/abrasives)

Job description

3M is seeking a Product Developer to collaborate with a global team and translate scientific insights into market-ready abrasive products. You will work across disciplines to explore new technologies, design experiments, and scale concepts to manufacturing, influencing product directions and proprietary IP creation.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive projects from concept to scale in a fast-paced environment at the Maplewood, MN site.