Product Engineering Manager, Graphic Films Product Engineering

As a Product Engineering Manager, Graphic Films Product Engineering at 3M, you will lead the St. Paul laboratory-based Graphic Films Product Engineering team, providing day-to-day supervision, local leadership, and coordination for product engineers, technical personnel, contingent workers, and supporting engineering resources.

You will establish clear priorities, ownership, deliverables, timelines, and escalation paths to strengthen workflow discipline, resource utilization, team effectiveness, and execution accountability.

Additionally, you will provide technical direction and product engineering oversight for product performance, product maintenance, product support, cost-improvement activities, testing priorities, technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.

You will partner with global leadership, including the Senior Manager based in Germany, and cross-functional stakeholders to align local execution with global product engineering, business, quality, safety, and operational priorities.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) and five years of experience in product engineering, laboratory operations, technical operations, manufacturing support, R&D, product support, or technical environment in a private, public, government, or military environment.

Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related technical field, formal supervisory or people leadership experience in a technical, laboratory, product engineering, product support, or R&D environment, and experience supporting root cause analysis, corrective actions, structured problem-solving, technical investigations, testing, scale-up, qualification, validation, engineering change, or lifecycle management activities.

The expected compensation range for this position is $164,612 - $201,193, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially, including Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences, and Retirement Benefits.