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Senior Quality Engineer*
3M Company · 🇺🇸 US, Minnesota, Maplewood
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What 3M Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Senior Research Engineer” (Materials Engineers) in MN: $117k–$131k, median $128k. Most were filed at wage level II (43%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description: Senior Quality 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 The Senior Quality Engineer will own EBO (Expanded Beam Optics) product quality governance & manufacturing quality performance, ensuring quality requirements, control plans, risk registers, defect definitions, metrics, and lessons learned remain current and aligned across manufacturing locations, and customer regions. This role will lead quality issue resolution, drive continuous improvement for the manufacturing site, and support global customer issues. As a Senior Quality Engineer, 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: • Lead/support manufacturing quality improvement, root cause analysis and corrective actions. • Maintain the EBO (Expanded Beam Optics) product quality baseline, including critical-to-quality characteristics, known risks, acceptance criteria, and quality requirements. • Govern global product-level control plans, inspection expectations, and defect classification standards. • Maintain the EBO product quality risk register across customer, manufacturing, metrology, application, and design risks. • Lead periodic product quality reviews using data from customers, manufacturing locations, and failure analysis. • Review product, process, tooling, test method, material, and site changes for quality impact. • Support global quality triage when Menomonie production is involved. • Ensure lessons learned from customer issues, internal defects, site qualification, and failure analysis are incorporated into controls and improvement plans. • Standardize quality dashboards, defect library, and product quality reporting. • Partner with engineering, manufacturing, customer quality, site quality, and metrology teams. 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 in engineering, quality, and/or manufacturing (completed and verified prior to start) • Three (3) years of experience in product and manufacturing quality, including advanced quality planning, process controls, customer issue resolution, manufacturing defect investigation, and product design risk management in a private, public, government, or military environment. • Three (3) years of experience leading or supporting quality improvement and risk management activities, including PFMEA, control plans, change impact assessments, root cause analysis, corrective actions, SPC, and process capability in a private, public, government, or military environment. Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: • Experience with optical products, connectors, electronics, precision assembly, or high-reliability manufacturing. • Experience with product transfers or cross-site process alignment. • Experience supporting global products manufactured across multiple sites. • Experience with product lifecycle quality, design change review, process change review, or product transfer. • Strong cross-functional leadership • Proficient in Mandarin Work location: • Thi