# Respiratory Protection Regulatory Engagement Specialist

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Maplewood, Minnesota
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,676 - $178,049
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Respiratory Protection Regulatory Engagement Specialist in 3M's Personal Safety Division (PSD), you will collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues around the world to advance respiratory protection standards, regulations, and occupational health and safety (OHS) practices across global markets.

You will represent 3M in high-impact regulatory and standards-development activities, engaging with OHS professionals, industry stakeholders, and regulators as a technical thought leader. In this role, you will shape science-based approaches and provide technical leadership.

Key responsibilities include:

- Facilitating the development of science-based performance and selection standards for respiratory protection equipment and occupational health and safety

- Identifying opportunities to advance respirator-related health and safety policies and regulations

- Coaching, mentoring, and coordinating PSD's global team of application engineers and regulatory specialists

- Collaborating with professional associations, educational organizations, and government entities

- Representing 3M in standards development organizations and related technical committees

- Leading respirator-related research to support new technologies and existing products

- Communicating emerging respiratory protection standards, regulatory, and policy developments to relevant stakeholders

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree or higher

- Five years of experience with respiratory protection-related occupational health and safety regulations and performance standards

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's degree in occupational health and safety, industrial hygiene, public policy, regulatory affairs, or a related scientific or technical discipline

- Experience representing an organization with regulatory agencies, standards-development organizations, industry associations, policymakers, or government affairs stakeholders

- Experience conducting or leading applied research in respiratory protection or personal protective equipment

- Strong communication, influencing, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Work location: Maplewood, MN or London, Ontario Travel: Up to 25% domestic and international

Salary range: $145,676 - $178,049

## Skills

### Required
- respiratory protection
- occupational health and safety
- regulatory affairs
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- master's degree in occupational health and safety
- industrial hygiene
- public policy

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