# CBG Advanced Product Development Specialist

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

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## Description

As a CBG Advanced Product Development Specialist, you will apply your technical expertise, curiosity, and collaborative mindset to create differentiated solutions for consumers around the world.

You will make an impact by:

- Advancing materials and product technologies, translating customer and consumer needs into robust product designs, and commercializing innovative solutions for global markets.

- Leading product development for the consumer packaged goods industry, with a primary focus on stationery and home and office markets, working with iconic brands Post-it® and Scotch™.

- Partnering with corporate research laboratories and global laboratory teams to build new product capabilities and applications that respond to evolving consumer and market trends.

- Driving products from bench-scale development through pilot-scale validation and manufacturing commercialization in partnership with product engineering, supply chain, third-party manufacturers, quality, and other cross-functional teams.

To set you up for success in this role, 3M requires:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in chemical engineering, materials science, or chemistry.

- Five years of product research and development experience in a private, public, government, or military environment.

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

- Master’s degree or higher in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, polymer chemistry, or a related discipline from an accredited institution.

- Excellent technical presentation and interpersonal skills.

- Strong oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to identify complex problems and develop effective solutions.

- Passion for developing new technologies, solving complex problems through novel approaches, and rapidly prototyping product concepts.

- Experience developing and commercializing stationery, home and office, consumer packaged goods, or related products.

- Hands-on experience with adhesives, films, liners, and related material or process development.

- Demonstrated success in exploring new product or technology platforms and scaling solutions from bench to pilot line and manufacturing.

- Experience developing and validating test methods.

- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across global, cross-functional teams, including manufacturing, regulatory, application engineering, quality, supply chain, and business partners.

The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, 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.

## Skills

### Required
- chemical engineering
- materials science
- chemistry
- product development

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in chemistry or related discipline
- technical presentation skills
- interpersonal skills
- communication skills
- adhesives
- films
- liners
- material development

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