Manufacturing Supervisor* (Cottage Grove, MN)

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 96,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Manufacturing Supervisor at the Cottage Grove, MN, plant, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Promoting a safe and sustainable working environment through modeling safe behaviors as well as recognizing and resolving safety related problems and being an active member and participating in site Emergency E-squad activities
• Establishing priorities and allocating work assignments in order to meet specific daily production requirements using lean management processes to meet customer expectations
• Monitoring production rates, yields, and quality of products routinely, communicating results to employees and leveraging continuous improvement tools to improve scheduling, quality, and efficiency.
• Leading, coaching and developing employees through direct supervisor, floor presence, monitoring and coaching of production employees, providing recognition, overseeing training completion, policy administration and participating in hiring processes. May include contingent workers.
• Representing plant leadership team through supporting initiatives across the plant, including but not limited to supervision coverage for alternative shifts, being on-call and servicing as a primary plant management representative.  This position requires working on a rotating shift (nights/weekends/holidays)—further details to be provided

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of one (1) year of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting.

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• High School diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of three (3) years of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting

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

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Previous supervisory experience in a union environment
• Experience in one or more of the following: project leadership, team leadership, supervisory, and/or management
• Self-directed and detail oriented
• Good interpersonal, communication, prioritization, organizational skills, and computer skills
• Create, lead and work in a team atmosphere
• Communicate written and verbally clearly and concisely and influence changes with operators as well as other plant employees and management team members
• Identify and resolve process issues
• Produce results through continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma) and provide impact through cost reduction programs, quality improvements, and safety of work environment

Work location - Cottage Grove, MN (Ability to work non-traditional work schedule, which requires working on a rotating shift (nights/weekends/holidays)

Travel: Up to 5% domestic travel

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only.  Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.  The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at 3M Company's sole election.

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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