Job Description:

Quality Supervisor*

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 other curious, creative 3Mers.

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

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Quality Supervisor for the Aearo Technologies, LLC site in Newark, DE, 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:

• Partnering with other quality and business leaders to support the Quality Management System.
• Championing and leading internal and external audits including associated corrective actions.
• Focusing on customer quality and improving customer satisfaction, including customer visits and communication.
• Implementing appropriate total quality management strategies including effective communication of the quality strategies and priorities.
• Representing the quality department and serving as the gatekeeper for quality for New Product Introduction (NPI) and commercialization.
• Providing leadership, coaching and direction to the Newark quality and operations teams.

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 five (5) years of experience private in one or more of the following areas: Quality, Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering, or Operations in private, public, government or military environment

OR

• High School Diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution AND eight (8) years of experience private in one or more of the following areas: Quality, Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering, or Operations in private, public, government or military environment

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

• Three (3) years of direct supervisory experience in a quality or manufacturing environment
• Automotive, Aerospace or related industry experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Experience implementing and managing to ISO9001 and IATF16949
• Experience working with global Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers including PPAP and FAI
• Experience working with NPI and commercialization as a quality gatekeeper
• Bachelors or advanced degree

Work location:

• On-Site

Travel: May include up to 15% domestic

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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Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M’s business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

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