3M is looking to develop high impact innovative abrasives and strengthen its proprietary position through the development of intellectual property.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline
- Technical expertise in thermosets, abrasives or nonwovens
- Technical expertise in urethane, epoxy or phenolic chemistries and chemicals
- Comfort in hands-on experimentation, working with wet chemistries, coating and web handling equipment
- Experience in technology or product development including phase-gate commercialization processes
- Experience in IP generation
- PhD degree with technical expertise in relevant fields
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop high impact innovative abrasives.
- Leveraging new technologies to develop novel, high-performance abrasive products.
- Applying knowledge of scientific and engineering knowledge 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 from an accredited university
- Five (5) years of combined experience in research & development
- Excellent written and verbal communication, networking, interpersonal and leadership skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status
- May include up to 10% domestic travel
