# Application Engineer - Asia Product Specialist for Respiratory Protection

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: 한국3M 동탄 기술연구소 (경기 화성시 삼성1로5길 7 )
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Application Engineer to serve as the Asia Product Specialist for our Respiratory Protection portfolio, including Reusable and Disposable Respirators.

As a key technical expert, you will partner closely with customers, sales teams, R&D, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing organizations to drive business growth, support new product commercialization, resolve complex technical challenges, and strengthen customer engagement across the region.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Regional Technical Leadership**

- Serve as the Asia technical subject matter expert for Respiratory Protection products.

- Provide advanced application engineering support to business teams across Asia.

- Support strategic customer opportunities and key account development.

- Identify emerging market trends, customer needs, and application opportunities.

- Act as a technical escalation point for complex product and application issues.

**Customer & Application Engineering Support**

- Provide technical consultation, product demonstrations, and application assessments.

- Conduct customer visits, product evaluations, field trials, and technical presentations.

- Deliver technical training to distributors, channel partners, and end users.

- Gather Voice of Customer (VOC) insights and translate them into business opportunities.

- Support implementation and adoption of respiratory protection solutions in diverse industrial environments.

**New Product Commercialization**

- Collaborate with regional and global R&D teams throughout the product development lifecycle.

- Support product validation, beta testing, customer evaluations, and field trials.

- Collect customer feedback and application data to accelerate successful product launches.

- Contribute technical expertise to commercialization and market readiness activities.

**Product Quality & Lifecycle Management**

- Support product lifecycle initiatives, product improvements, and change management activities.

- Investigate customer complaints and application-related product issues.

- Partner with Quality, Manufacturing, and R&D teams to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.

- Ensure customer concerns are addressed effectively and professionally.

**Regulatory & Compliance Support**

- Support product certification and regulatory compliance activities across Asia.

- Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs teams on market-specific requirements.

- Participate in product conformance evaluations and compliance documentation efforts.

- Maintain awareness of relevant PPE regulations and industry standards.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

- Work closely with Business Leaders, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs, and Supply Chain teams.

- Facilitate knowledge sharing and technical capability development across the Asia organization.

- Support strategic initiatives that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, or a related technical discipline.

- Advanced degree preferred.

- 8+ years of experience in Application Engineering, Technical Service, Product Development, Industrial Safety, Respiratory Protection, or Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

- Demonstrated experience supporting industrial customers in technical or application-focused roles.

- Experience working with regional or global cross-functional teams.

- Experience supporting new product introduction and commercialization activities is preferred.

- Knowledge of product quality systems, complaint handling, or regulatory compliance is advantageous.

**Technical Expertise**

- Respiratory Protection technologies and PPE applications

- Industrial hazard assessment and risk mitigation

- Product testing, validation, and commercialization

- Technical problem solving and root cause analysis

- Regulatory compliance and industry standards

- Project and stakeholder management

**Leadership & Professional Skills**

- Customer-focused mindset

- Strong technical communication and presentation skills

- Ability to influence and collaborate across functions and cultures

- Strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills

**Travel Requirements**

- Approximately 40-50% travel within Korea and across Asia.

## Skills

### Required
- Respiratory Protection technologies
- PPE applications
- Industrial hazard assessment
- Risk mitigation
- Product testing
- Validation
- Commercialization
- Technical problem solving
- Root cause analysis
- Regulatory compliance
- Industry standards
- Project management
- Stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- Advanced degree
- Experience supporting new product introduction and commercialization activities
- Knowledge of product quality systems
- Complaint handling

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