3M is looking to develop high-impact innovative abrasive products to support the Coated Portfolio business by leveraging 3M technologies and solving complex problems through chemistry, chemical engineering, or material science.
Requirements
- Focused expertise in resins and/or polymers, including photochemistry and curable polymers and resins. Demonstrated formulation development skills.
- Prior experience in new technology and product development, especially for abrasives.
- Understanding of measurement and implications of polymer rheology.
- Possess expertise equivalent to which would be obtained in a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or Materials Science.
- Experience with various web/film coating processes in the lab and at manufacturing scale.
- Experience generating test methods with relevance to customer needs.
- Prior experience searching, interpreting, and generating patents.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop high-impact innovative abrasive products to support Coated Portfolio business.
- Leveraging 3M technologies to develop novel, high-performance abrasive products.
- Applying knowledge of chemistry, chemical engineering, or material science to solve complex problems.
- Building product concepts to demonstrate feasibility and scale up into manufacturing.
- Applying technical and leadership skills to generate project scopes, plans, and design of experiments
- Strengthening 3M’s proprietary position through development of intellectual property.
- Providing support to manufacturing organizations as needed to ensure product consistency and quality.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university.
- Five (5) years of combined experience in research & development (including undergraduate research, in a private, public, government or military environment
- Proven record of effective global cross-functional team collaboration through technology deployment, manufacturing scale-up, and product commercialization.
- Excellent communication skills (oral, written and presentation).
- Microsoft Office proficient, Minitab or other statistical software is a plus
