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.

Senior Fall Protection Application Engineer, Personal Safety

Develop fall protection solutions for industrial and infrastructure customers across India. Provide technical support through site assessments, training, and project implementation.

Description

  • Deliver application engineering, technical support, and solution development for fall protection systems across India.
  • Help customers, distributors, sales teams, consultants, and contractors select, apply, inspect, and use fall protection solutions.
  • Turn customer needs and workplace hazards into suitable fall protection solutions that meet 3M requirements, engineering principles, and applicable standards.
  • Assess applications, work-at-height hazards, site conditions, and operational needs.
  • Recommend 3M fall protection products and systems based on applications and identified risks.
  • Advise on harnesses, lanyards, self-retracting lifelines, anchorages, horizontal and vertical lifelines, rescue systems, confined-space access and egress, and related solutions.
  • Review site layouts, drawings, specifications, and work-at-height requirements.
  • Assist with technical calculations and application assessments.
  • Join site surveys and recommend implementation approaches.
  • Provide technical support to customers, EPC contractors, consultants, system integrators, and end users.
  • Visit customers, assess sites, lead technical discussions, demonstrate products, and support application trials.
  • Guide projects from opportunity identification through solution development and implementation.
  • Resolve product and application issues, coordinating escalations with relevant 3M teams.
  • Help PSD Sales identify and develop technical opportunities, customer meetings, tenders, specifications, and project discussions.
  • Create and deliver technical training, demonstrations, application guides, presentations, and competency programs.
  • Stay current with Indian and international fall protection standards and regulations.
  • Conduct site surveys, write reports, and document technical engagements and application opportunities.
  • Work with PSD Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Application Engineering, Regulatory, and global technical teams.
  • Support product launches, application development, and the sharing of solutions across India and Asia.
  • Contribute to EHS policies, hazard identification, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, civil, industrial, safety, or a related technical engineering discipline.
  • Typically 8–10 years of relevant experience in fall protection, work-at-height or industrial safety, engineering solutions, construction, infrastructure, or a related technical field.
  • Strong grasp of fall protection principles and work-at-height applications.
  • Experience in customer-facing technical work, application engineering, engineering services, or technical sales support.
  • Ability to interpret technical drawings, site layouts, specifications, and engineering requirements.
  • Willingness to travel extensively across India for customer visits, site surveys, training, and project support.
  • Experience with fall protection, anchorage, lifeline, rescue, or access and egress systems.
  • Experience in construction, infrastructure, oil and gas, power, utilities, manufacturing, or mining.
  • Familiarity with applicable Indian and international fall protection standards.
  • Experience with engineered fall protection solutions and site assessments.
  • Knowledge of AutoCAD or similar engineering or drawing tools is an advantage.
  • Experience with multinational companies, engineering consultants, EPC contractors, or large industrial customers is beneficial.
  • Understanding of fall protection principles, hierarchy of controls, anchorages, rescue planning, and work-at-height applications.
  • Skills in customer and stakeholder management, problem solving, technical communication, site assessment and risk analysis, training and presentations, project and opportunity management, cross-functional collaboration, commercial awareness, and safety.

Benefits

  • Room to explore, with encouragement to be curious and creative.
  • A range of perspectives and opportunities to take risks on new ideas.
  • Extensive travel across India for customer visits, site surveys, training, and project support.
  • Opportunity to contribute to a strong Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) culture.
  • Access to 3M’s creative solutions and innovation-focused work environment.

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