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Job Description:

Job Description

Advanced Application Development Engineer – Application Development & Automation

Collaborating with Innovative 3Mers

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.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Application Development Engineer – Application & Automation in 3M’s Automotive & Aerospace Solutions Laboratory, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. The successful candidate will have a strong mechanical aptitude and excel in collaborating with others in the laboratory to revolutionize standard manual processes and invent new, automated solutions for our industry.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Playing a key role in customer interaction & specifying 3M Automotive Automated solutions at OEM’s & Tiers
• Leading the way on application development including responsibilities for ideation, documentation, feasibility analysis, and validation
• Plays crucial role in defining standard processes and tools to accelerate implementation of physical automation solutions
• Collaborating with and guide multiple teams to ensure the success of application implementation, including marketing, external industry partners, and customers
• Providing application support and training to customers, including in-person visits
• Gaining a complete understanding of the application effectiveness by leading field trials and internal testing along with analyzing and presenting findings
• Striving to remain ahead of pending changes to industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Developing and testing automation solutions leveraging technologies such as robotics, computer vision, machine learning and other industrial automation and software technologies.
• Facilitating complex problem-solving, collaborating across functional groups, and leading development efforts for new customer solutions.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in MECHATRONICS including FBD, Ladder Logic Sequential Function chart, Perl Shells Scripting. (completed and verified prior to start)
• 3-5 years of experience providing technical support to customers in technical and/or application engineering role in a private, public, government, or military environment
• Data driven / tech savvy.
• Proven experience in presenting himself/company in external conferences/Events
• Demonstrate lab to field /scale up experience for multiple products in his tenure
• To provide Design Engineering in the development of various programs
• To support prototyping and sampling till scale-up of new programs
• To provide in-plant application training support to Customers
• To obtain prototype approvals and tooled up Sample approvals during Program Development from Customers
• Train sales & marketing team on various products and their applications
• To evaluate and audit performance of products as per Customer Specific Requirements
• To provide, generate and maintain TS16949 / QMS documentation
• To provide a timely and optimally elaborate response and corrective action plan to Customer Complaints
• To continuously pursue 3M Six-Sigma methodology in various work practices

• Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering, systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or other engineering field (completed and verified prior to start)

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