Quality Manager*

3M; Minnesota; On-site; USD 188,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

3M's Quality Manager role invites a seasoned professional to guide multiple quality disciplines, drive strategic direction, and ensure regulatory compliance across products and processes. You will lead a team, shape metrics, and partner with senior leaders to deliver competitive quality outcomes at the Maplewood, MN site.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree, 5+ years in quality/manufacturing, and 2 years in a leadership role, with hands-on experience in ISO 9001 and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher completed before start.
• At least 5 years of combined quality and/or manufacturing experience.
• At least 2 years in a quality or manufacturing leadership position.

Responsibilities

• Set medium- to long-term strategic direction and operating plans for a market/product line.
• Define guidelines for QA, product QC, incoming QC, and customer management.
• Initiate and approve projects to improve efficiency and competitiveness.
• Provide direct supervision, including objective setting, performance management, and coaching.
• Resolve issues related to direct reports and lead cross-functional collaboration.
• Maintain Quality metrics performance and drive improvements.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Quality management

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Quality metrics

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

Quality Manager

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Job Description

Quality Manager

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

Role

• Consulting with the leadership team to set medium- to long-term strategic direction and operating plans for a medium to large complex market/product line.
• Interpreting industry trends, customer requirements, and business objectives to define guidelines and methods for multiple disciplines within the Quality function, such as quality assurance, product quality control, incoming quality control, and customer management.
• Initiating and approving projects to continuously improve efficiency and competitiveness.
• Having direct responsibility for functional strategic planning
• Managing one or more quality areas such as quality assurance, product quality control, incoming quality control, customer issue management, and related areas.
• Determining priorities and timetables, assigning resources and tasks, and being accountable for the activities and results of the functional area.
• Providing direct supervision to the team, including objective setting, performance management, motivation, training, and coaching.
• Resolving issues and conflicts related to direct reports.
• Creating solutions for complex and multi-faceted problems requiring ingenuity, creativity, innovation, and strong analytical skills.
• Applying thorough understanding of operating unit policies and practices, as well as different techniques and practices, to achieve desired results.
• Having significant business impact due to the scope of responsibility, complexity, and growth potential of the business.
• Influencing cross-functionally to collaborate toward common goals.
• Communicating with managers, functional leaders, area/business leaders, direct subordinates, and key external customers.
• Sharing vision and demonstrating company values.
• Providing expert-level Quality functional leadership, guidance, and direction to the team on the Quality Body of Knowledge for products within scope.
• Identifying and leading improvement opportunities to proactively ensure compliance with applicable internal, domestic, and international quality regulations.
• Maintaining effective Quality Metric performance and defining and executing activities to

Your Skills And Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years of combined quality and/or manufacturing experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Two (2) years of experience in a Quality or Manufacturing leadership position, either through direct supervision or technical team lead responsibilities.

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

• Experience working with ISO 9001:2015
• Knowledge of NIOSH Respiratory standards
• Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience with championing and/or deploying quality continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. MSA, SPC, FMEA, PPU)

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 15% domestic/international

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).

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.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

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.

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.

Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $188,251 - $230,084, 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, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/.

Good Faith Posting Date Range 10/06/2026 To 11/05/2026 Or until filled

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