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Job Description:
Role Summary
The 3PM Manufacturing Engineer serves as 3M’s on-site technical authority at contract manufacturing partners in China, owning end-to-end launch execution, mass production transfer, and manufacturing process stability. This role is the primary engineering bridge between 3M’s internal process standards and the contract manufacturer’s production environment.
Manufacturing Launch & Transfer
- Lead product and technology transfers from 3M internal facilities or prior suppliers to contract manufacturers, including documentation, tooling, and equipment readiness.
- Conduct manufacturability reviews and trial runs to validate production readiness ahead of NPI qualification gates, coordinating handoff to the Quality Engineer for formal qualification.
- Define and verify that new production lines meet or exceed 3M’s operational standards for yield, cycle time, and capacity.
Production Performance
- Monitor daily production yields, equipment efficiencies, and manufacturing capacities; own resolution of technical deviations at the process level.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives including line balancing, throughput optimization, and equipment utilization.
- Lead technical root-cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone, FMEA, Six Sigma) for manufacturing bottlenecks and process failures — escalating quality system findings to the Quality Engineer for SCAR or CAPA initiation.
Supplier Technical Partnership
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for contract manufacturers on all process and engineering matters.
- Partner with the 3rd Party Quality Engineer on investigations where manufacturing process is the suspected root cause; provide technical input to NCR and CAPA documentation without owning quality system records.
- Participate in technical audits of current and potential contract manufacturers, focusing on process capability and equipment qualification (audit governance and QMS scoring owned by Quality Engineer).
Project & Risk Management
- Manage multi-disciplinary technical workstreams across timelines, resource plans, and technical risk registers.
- Track process capability using statistical tools (Minitab, Excel; Cp/Cpk) and report against agreed control limits.
- Identify and escalate manufacturing risks that may affect NPI milestones or mass production stability.
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