Job Description:
Application Engineer – Defense Segment – Aerospace & Defense Business
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 wide variety 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 an Application Engineer – Aerospace & Defense, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:
Building strong technical relationships with defense primes, subsystem suppliers, platform integrators, government laboratories, and Department of Defense organizations
Partnering with customers to understand mission and platform requirements and identify opportunities for 3M technologies across survivability, thermal management, EMI management, structural bonding, and electronics material applications
Leading technical engagement activities that drive product specification, qualification, and adoption within customer programs
Serving as the voice of the customer by translating application needs into product requirements and development opportunities
Understanding customer technology adoption and commercialization process and aligning 3M internal processes to support successful implementation
Providing technical consultation, training, and application support through customer visits, design reviews, testing activities, field evaluations, and product demonstrations.
Developing and managing a pipeline of growth opportunities within strategic Defense accounts, including identifying emerging mission needs, modernization priorities, and technology trends
Supporting customer qualification efforts by coordinating testing, generating technical recommendations, and guiding implementation of 3M solutions
Collaborating closely with Sales, Marketing, Product Platforms, Manufacturing, and Corporate Research teams to accelerate commercialization and address customer challenges
Influencing future product development by identifying unmet needs and advocating for new technologies that enable customer success in the defense market
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 in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
Five (5) years of application engineering, product development, new product commercialization, or role translating customer needs into technical product performance criteria in a private, public, government or military environment
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering with Electronics focus
Masters’s or Ph.D. degree in a science or engineering discipline
Ten (10) years of application engineering, product development, new product commercialization, or other similar role translating customer needs into technical product performance criteria in a private, public, government or military environment
Experience as a Materials & Processes (M&P) Engineer, Materials Engineer, Systems Engineer, Design Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, or a similar role supporting flight hardware development
Demonstrated knowledge of defense asset materials selection, qualification, and verification processes
Comprehensive knowledge of defense and aerospace industry materials, technologies, processes, and specifications
Direct experience working in the military, at a national lab, with Defense primes, or…