Job Description:

Manufacturing Supervisor* (7 days on 7 days off Rotating Days/Midnights) - Cottage Grove, MN

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Production Supervisor at the Cottage Grove, 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:

• Guiding activities and personnel in order to achieve the safe handling and disposal of hazardous waste in an environmentally conscious and productive manner. Cultivating and leading a team by encouraging and implementing cross training activities, cooperation, innovation, flexibility and teamwork.  Scheduling work priorities consistent with engineering directives, coordinating maintenance activities, allocating work assignments, communicating expectations and monitoring workflow. Providing coaching and feedback to employees and utilizing corrective action to resolve conflict and inappropriate behaviors.

• Training employees on all aspects of the Cottage Grove operations and processes.  Providing employees with proper tools, equipment and information including any changes that may affect their work.  Ensuring a safe work environment by reviewing production processes, OSHA requirements, and recognizing and resolving safety-related problems. Ensuring employees receive training as specified and maintaining certification and training requirements. Providing effective communication to employees through crew meetings, electronic mail, and 1:1 coaching session. Completing housekeeping audits and job safety analysis on a regular basis.

• Utilizing available resources to resolve process, maintenance, equipment and/or related technical problems. Monitoring and remediating process equipment downtime while maintaining safe operating limits. Analyzing and interpreting statistical data and charts to identify trends and determine improvement plans.  Communicating and following-up on safety, productivity, quality, and maintenance concerns with appropriate staff. Generating work requests and entering incident reports in accordance with established procedures.    

• Implementing advanced working knowledge and interpretation of corporate and site policies and procedures.  Ensuring shift administrative activities such as time reporting, attendance control, vacation planning, overtime, etc. are properly implemented and documented.   Participating in assigned team functions and projects.  Understanding of DOT and Hazardous Material Regulations.

• Being an active member and participating in site Emergency E-squad activities.

• This position requires working on a rotating shift (nights/weekends/holidays)—further details to be provided

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 a minimum of two (2) years of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting.
  

OR 

• High School diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of four (4) years of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.

• Previous supervisory experience.

• Experience in one or more of the following: project leadership, team leadership, supervisory, and/or management.

• Self-directed and detail oriented.

• Good interpersonal, communication, prioritization, organizational skills, and computer skills.

• Create, lead and work in a team atmosphere.

• Communicate written and verbally clearly and concisely and influence changes with operators as well as other plant employees and management team members.

• Identification and resolution of process issues.

• Use of continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma) to provide impact through cost reduction programs, quality improvements, and safety of work environments.

Travel: Up to 5% domestic travel

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.

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.