Application Engineer

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Job Description:

Collaborate with innovative 3Mers around the world

As Application Engineer in Abrasives system division in Mexico you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

The impact you will make in this role

• Leading the way on application development including responsibilities for ideation, documentation, feasibility analysis, and validation.
• Troubleshooting challenges and optimizing the performance of abrasive processes at customer sites.
• Providing insights on customer needs as a member of 3M Product Development teams, collaborating on new solution development.
• Providing application support and training to customers, sales representatives, and industrial distributors, including in-person visits and e-media development.
• Developing new methods to evaluate abrasive solution performance.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree concluded in engineering (Mechanical, manufacturing, Automation and corelated).
• Five (5) years of relevant industrial technical, sales, and/or customer experience.
• Field trip – 50%-70% time.

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

• Experience in virtual interactions tools.
• Intermediate/advanced English.
• Experience in new product development and product/process validation during scale up.
• Ability and willingness to effectively document technical work and present results.
• Hands-on construction and fabrication experience, particularly utilizing industrial abrasives Include in this section the highly desirable experience and / or knowledge in the role, those that represent a notable factor.

Work Location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the corporate office at Santa Fe, CDMX.

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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