Supervisor Manufacturing Operations

3M; Cottage Grove (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

3M seeks a Water Treatment Supervisor for Cottage Grove, MN to lead wastewater and water quality operations, ensuring safety, compliance and environmental quality while guiding a skilled team through supervision and training.

The role coordinates with maintenance and engineering, schedules priorities, and supports 24/7 production with flexible shifts as needed, driving continuous improvement and cost control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 2+ years manufacturing experience.
• High School diploma/GED with 4+ years water treatment facility experience.
• Wastewater license.
• Leadership experience in a union environment.
• Experience in project leadership, team leadership, supervisory, and/or management.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, prioritization and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee all operations for 3M wastewater and water quality systems, ensuring safety, compliance, efficiency and alignment with standards.
• Promote a safe work environment and lead incident investigations.
• Cultivate and lead a team with cross-training, cooperation, innovation and teamwork; manage priorities and coaching.
• Ensure shift administrative activities are properly implemented and documented (time reporting, attendance, vacation, overtime).
• Represent plant leadership in initiatives across the plant and support 24/7 production with flexible shifts.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Communication skills

Project leadership

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

High School diploma/GED or higher

Job description

Job Description

Water Treatment Supervisor - Cottage Grove

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

• Leading and overseeing all operations associated with 3M wastewater and water quality systems, ensuring activities are performed safely, compliantly, efficiently, and in alignment with company standards. Providing direct leadership to employees through effective supervision, training, and performance support. Promoting a culture of safety, accountability, employee engagement, and operational excellence while maintaining focus on environmental quality, cost control, morale, and productivity. Coordinating with maintenance, engineering and other departments to ensure reliable system performance, timely resolution of operational issues, and sustained compliance with applicable requirements, policies, procedures, and standards.
• Promoting a safe and sustainable working environment through modeling safe behaviors as well as recognizing and resolving safety related problems. Actively lead incident investigations, including presenting incident resolutions to site leadership.
• Cultivating and leading a team by encouraging and implementing cross training activities, cooperation, innovation, flexibility, and teamwork. Scheduling work priorities consistent with engineering directives, coordinating maintenance activities, allocating work assignments, communicating expectations and monitoring workflow. Providing coaching and feedback to employees and utilizing corrective action to resolve conflict and inappropriate behaviors.
• Implementing advanced working knowledge and interpretation of corporate and site policies and procedures. Ensuring shift administrative activities such as time reporting, attendance control, vacation planning, overtime, etc. are properly implemented and documented.
• Representing plant leadership team through supporting initiatives across the plant, including but not limited to supervision coverage for alternative shifts and supporting 24/7 production through flexible work schedules when required.

Your Skills and Expertise

• Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of two (2) years of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting.
• High School diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of four (4) years of combined experience working in a water treatment facility a private, public, government or military setting.
• Wastewater license
• Leadership experience in a union environment.
• Experience in one or more of the following: project leadership, team leadership, supervisory, and/or management.
• Self-directed and detail oriented.
• Good interpersonal, communication, prioritization, organizational skills, and computer skills.
• Create, lead and work in a team atmosphere.
• Communicate written and verbally clearly and concisely and influence changes with operators as well as other plant employees and management team members.
• Identification and resolution of process issues.
• Use of continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma) to provide impact through cost reduction programs, quality improvements, and safety of work environments.

Work Location: Onsite Cottage Grove, MN

Travel: Up to 5% domestic travel

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 w