Environmental Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title
Environmental Engineer*

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 Environmental Engineer, 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:

• Perform compliance related activities such as: Completion and submittal of regulatory and permit required compliance reports for various R&D and pilot plant production operations.
• Complete data collection and recordkeeping for environmental programs including Air, Hazardous Waste, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Industrial Stormwater, and Tanks Management.
• Perform regulatory inspections of multiple spaces including labs, pilot plants, and outdoor areas.
• Involved with the implementation of environmental stewardship, sustainability, and continuous improvement programs.
• Provide support during incident investigations, risk assessments, and EHS self-assessments and/or audits.
• Coordination with 3M Environmental Operations to ensure continued compliance in an evolving regulatory environment.
• Follow and promote corporate business conduct, safety, health, and environmental policies and practices.
• Ensure proper response, reporting, and investigation of spills including a willingness to be on-call for emergencies.
• Serve as hazardous waste coordinator including updating waste stream profiles for new materials, planning for lab clean-out days, and connecting others with guidance for miscellaneous waste types.
  
  

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)
• Six (6) months or more of combined experience performing, Management of Change (MOC), regulatory inspections, and/or regulatory assessments/data analysis and record keeping in a private, public, government or military environment
• Current, valid Driver’s License
• Two (2) years of experience with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, etc)

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

• Two (2) or more years of combined hands-on experience performing, Management of Change (MOC), regulatory inspections, and/or regulatory assessments/data analysis and record keeping in a private, public, government or military environment
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant science or engineering discipline form an accredited institution.

• Experience in manufacturing, or Research and Development (R&D).

Work location:

• This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at the 3M location in Maplewood, MN a minimum of four (4) days per week.·

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international·

Relocation: 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.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

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.

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