Manufacturing Technology Operations Manager

Job Description:

Manufacturing Technology Operations Manager

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 diversity 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
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated leader to join our global manufacturing technology operations team.  The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manufacturing operations and technology, with a proven track record of developing high performing teams and consistently delivering improved results.  You will have the opportunity to not only make a positive impact on 3M results and 3Mers alike, but also continuously develop your own expertise, network, leadership, and influence through direct collaboration with numerous functional teams and all organizational levels from process technicians and new engineers to corporate scientists and executive leadership.  If you enjoy challenges, continuously learning, making a positive difference to those you work with, and driving improved results, then being a manufacturing technology operations manager/director just might be the perfect role for you!  

As a(n) Manufacturing Technology Operations Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leads planning and execution of forward-looking yield, productivity, and commercialization projects with direct alignment and partnership with a grouping of 3M manufacturing plants.
• Implements strategies and improvements at the plant level to deliver short- and long-term process capability and personnel development, while working closely with a global manufacturing technology operations team to collaborate and replicate best in class solutions. 
• Determines what manufacturing technology engineering skillsets are necessary to take ownership of priority projects and the value of doing so, works directly with global manufacturing technology operations and platform teams to allocate and lead manufacturing technology engineers and their associated projects.
• Where appropriate, develops project plans for plant process engineers, connects them with experienced manufacturing technology engineers to both train and develop process engineers and to accelerate execution of projects/improvements.
• Understands common and priority process capability gaps within plants and across plants, pro-actively creates manufacturing technology strategies and priority programs/projects, and leads cross functional teams to develop new manufacturing technology solutions which drive yield and/or productivity of existing assets and products.
• Works with cross functional team to ensure new products are commercialized and new assets are installed in the plant with robust manufacturing capability, setting the plant up for success at product launch.
• Understands, creates strategies, and works with cross functional teams to optimize asset utilization across factories, by cross qualifying, consolidating, or investing in optimal processing footprint
• Provide leadership to internal manufacturing technology operations by having the opportunity to own strategies and execution of global manufacturing technology engineering people development (health of the organization, development planning, promotion processes and reviews, recruiting), planning (strategic planning, operational planning, technology planning), execution (project cadence and management, metric development and reporting, escalation protocols), and communication (global and local communications, advertising/marketing manufacturing technology efforts).
• Serve as a member of the global manufacturing technology operations leadership team, as well as a member of the manufacturing operations leadership team associated with your grouping of plants, working directly with operations leadership from plant to executive level. 
• Continuously develops and expands their own expertise, network, leadership, and influence through close collaboration with a high performing global manufacturing technology organization and nearly all functional roles and organizational levels across 3M, from plant operations to corporate labs and from process technicians to T7s and executive leadership. 

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 (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Eight (8) years of manufacturing operations experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Five (5) years of team management and/or program leadership experience in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Five (5) years of manufacturing technology experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Five (5) years of demonstrated improvement methodology expertise (lean, DMAIC,…)
• Skills include… proven track record of developing high performing teams, excellent communication skills, and delivering consistent positive results.

Work location:

• Hybrid Eligible
• Maplewood, MN

Travel: May include up to 40%/5% domestic/international

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 who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens. 

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees’ U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s). 

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at 3M Company’s sole election. 

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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