Job Title

HR Leader – Safety & Industrial Business Group

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

This HR Leader will serve as a strategic HR Business Partner and provide Project Management leadership for the Safety and Industrial Business Group. The role delivers strong, ongoing HR support to the organization while overseeing the planning, coordination, and execution of HR workstreams that impact the business. This leader ensures alignment across business leadership, HR, functional partners, and project teams to enable smooth transitions, effective risk management, and timely delivery of key milestones. The role also provides governance across the business to maintain alignment with operational priorities and drives global end‑to‑end execution. In this role, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Manage HR project governance impacting the business, including workplans, timelines, status reporting, and risk mitigation.

• Advise business leaders on risks, workforce continuity, change management, and organizational alignment.

• Serve as the central point of contact between HR COEs and Business teams.

• Track progress against milestones and escalate issues to project leadership when needed.

• Support development of transition strategies, change management plans, and communications.

• Facilitate cross-functional meetings, documentation, and decision tracking.

• Maintain project documentation, dashboards, and executive updates.

• Partner with HR leaders to ensure compliance with corporate policies and regional requirements.

• Drive strategic workforce planning, organizational design, change management and leadership alignment across the business teams

• Partner with senior leaders to shape organizational strategy, workforce plans, and long‑term talent priorities.

• Partner with leadership on talent strategy, succession planning, employee development and organizational effectiveness.

• Lead succession planning, leadership development, and talent pipeline strategies for critical roles.

• Lead HR strategy and execution for business transformations, operational shifts, or growth initiatives.

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’s degree or higher in Human Resources or Business (completed and verified prior to start)

• Ten (10) years of experience in HR Operations and/or HR Business Partner in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Deep experience in industrial, manufacturing, or safety-driven environments.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior executives and cross-functional partners.

• Expertise in workforce planning, compliance and labor practices, change management, and organizational design.

• Strong strategic thinking, executive communication, and decision-making skills.

• Proven ability to manage large, complex, global initiatives.

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 5% domestic

Relocation: Not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).