3M
3M
3M is a global manufacturing and healthcare company whose products also support automotive, electronics, transportation, workplace safety, and other industries. Its portfolio includes adhesives, abrasives, advanced materials, automotive components, dental products, electrical components, medical supplies, and personal protective equipment. The company applies science and engineering across a broad range of practical challenges, with sustainability work focused on areas such as carbon emissions and water use. With a long history of research and more than 100,000 patents, 3M offers opportunities to contribute to products and technologies used across everyday life and industrial applications.

Application Engineer, Personal Safety — New Zealand Remote

Application Engineer supporting 3M’s Personal Safety portfolio across New Zealand. The role combines workplace assessments, technical support, training, troubleshooting, field evaluation, and product commercialization.

Description

  • Collaborate with customers to drive growth through new applications and product commercialization
  • Create value propositions that support effective product commercialization
  • Lead customer field trials and assess local competitors and marketing practices
  • Develop and replicate product and market applications with digital tools
  • Provide customer-facing application engineering and technical support for the Personal Safety portfolio in New Zealand
  • Visit customers to conduct workplace assessments, application reviews, demonstrations, field trials, and performance evaluations
  • Recommend suitable products, applications, and technical solutions
  • Investigate technical issues and assist with product implementation
  • Work with Sales and Marketing on strategic opportunities, major account conversions, specifications, and channel partner development
  • Gather customer insights, market intelligence, unmet needs, and application feedback
  • Support product evaluations, validation, new product introduction, commercialization, transitions, changes, and launch readiness
  • Deliver technical training, seminars, and workshops for customers, distributors, and internal sales teams
  • Assist with technical complaint investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and customer communications
  • Support product certification, compliance work, and adherence to applicable standards and requirements
  • Coordinate with Sales, Marketing, Portfolio Management, R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and Asia Application Engineering

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, or a related technical field
  • Relevant background in application engineering, technical service, industrial safety, PPE, or a comparable technical discipline
  • Experience in customer-facing technical work with distributors or channel partners
  • Experience supporting product evaluations, new product introduction, technical training, and complaint resolution
  • Familiarity with applicable PPE standards and regulatory requirements is preferred
  • Strong application engineering and technical troubleshooting skills
  • Customer-focused communication and presentation abilities
  • Ability to assess workplace hazards and recommend appropriate technical solutions
  • Broad knowledge of PPE and Personal Safety applications
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory teams
  • Strong project coordination and organizational skills
  • Ability to work independently with customers across a geographically diverse territory

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement
  • Permanent, full-time employment
  • Technical seminars and application workshops supporting ongoing development
  • Opportunity to contribute to innovation and new product commercialization

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