# Core Engineering Leader

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Maplewood, Minnesota
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $221,591 - $270,834
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

The Core Engineering Leader is responsible for leading product engineering across the full product lifecycle, with accountability for design integrity, product robustness, quality performance, cost competitiveness, and cross-functional execution.

This role leads the division-wide CMP portfolio, establishing consistent engineering standards across the Personal Safety Division, and partners with business unit teams, Product organizations, BSC, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and external development partners to deliver business-critical engineering outcomes.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Lead the division-wide CMP portfolio, including portfolio strategy, execution model, prioritization process, and performance KPIs.

- Establish and maintain engineering standards that strengthen design integrity, robustness, documentation quality, configuration management, and lifecycle excellence.

- Partner with business unit teams and BSC to deliver core engineering capabilities, including molding, hardware design, digital components and related product-engineering competencies.

- Manage setup of external development partners, suppliers, and contract manufacturers against defined expectations for performance, quality, cost, schedule, and technical delivery in partnership with procurement.

- Drive material and process standardization across PSD to improve product robustness, reduce cost, and support scalable execution.

- Govern engineering documentation, configuration management, and change-control practices to ensure consistency, traceability, and compliance with quality expectations.

- Optimize project cycle time, business impact, and resource allocation across the CMP portfolio and related engineering initiatives.

- Assign and align technical resources to critical CMP projects based on business priorities, risk, urgency, and expected value.

- Drive continuous improvement by reducing technology debt, mitigating product risk, and improving engineering execution discipline.

- Build, prioritize, and govern a cross-functional pipeline spanning service, repair, quality, manufacturing, and product-engineering needs.

- Own ongoing product support which may include digital updates.

**Key Relationships and Partnerships:**

- Co-own CMP execution and prioritization with business unit Product Engineering teams, and supply chain teams.

- Align technology-development priorities with Product organizations.

- Champion robust engineering practices across functions.

- Collaborate with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and external engineering partners for continuous improvement.

**Your Skills and Expertise:**

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Science or Engineering (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.

- 8+ years of engineering experience across product development, product engineering, manufacturing, quality, or lifecycle management, including hardgoods, molding, hardware design, and/or electronic components.

- 4+ years of technical leadership experience managing cross-functional engineering programs, suppliers or contract manufacturers, portfolio priorities, KPIs, risks, and stakeholder alignment.

**Work Location:**

- This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M in Maplewood, MN.

**Travel:**

- May include up to 15% domestic/international.

**Relocation Assistance:**

- May be authorized.

**Salary Range:**

- $221,591 - $270,834

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- product development
- manufacturing
- quality

### Nice to have
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- change control
- product robustness

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