Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum.

Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best.

At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue.

Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers' toughest challenges.

While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding.

Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy:
applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Description

Product Engineer

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives.

As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best.

Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy.

Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As a Product 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

Maintaining the product design to ensure product safety and efficacy meeting/exceeding design intent as materials, processes, methods, regulations, and specifications changes throughout the product lifecycle.

Leading change control for commercialized products and support NPI from lead change control for commercialized products and support NPI from development through scale-up, and continued improvement and innovation until the products are retired.

Translating between technical/engineering disciplines and incorporating feedback from customers and technical support engineers to further improve products, processes, and services.

Providing technical expertise to new product development teams and product changes.
Strengthening product and process capabilities to ensure compliance with production procedures, standards, safety, and regulations.

Your Skills And Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution AND (3) three years of experience developing, supporting and/or maintaining commercialized products in a private, public, government environment

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

Three (3) years of product and/or manufacturing experience in the medical device industry and/or healthcare Quality Management Systems (QMS) such as ISO13485, GMP.

Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Strong communication skills (written, oral, and presentation) and systems proficiency in Japanese and English (TOEIC score type English Skill Sets (i.e.

Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing) are required.)

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

Competencies in one or more of the following areas:
Experience on coating various materials onto substrates/backings
Film extrusion and / or lamination of multiple substrates
Product and/or process liners of many types, including film and paper based liner
Nonwoven materials
Knowledge of change management, familiarity with qualification procedures (process validation, design verification), and competency in creative problem solving.
Demonstrated use of project management techniques to lead cross functional teams in projects that drive improvement and results.
Experience collaborating with laboratory, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing functions.

Statistical knowledge and practice [e.g., Design of Experiments (DOE), sampling, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Product & Process Understanding (PPU), Lean Six Sigma, etc.

]
Experiences in executing issues investigation, problem-solving, and improvement projects

Visiting and forming great working relationships with identified third party manufacturing locations or internal manufacturing locations to facilitate qualifications and manufacturing process change plan.

Work location:
Sagamihara, Kanagawa

Hybrid (Onsite and Remote): Eligible

Travel:
May include up to 25% domestic/international

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process.

Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers.

Please note that all email communications from Solventum regarding job opportunities with the company will be from an email with a domain of Be wary of unsolicited emails or messages regarding Solventum job opportunities from emails with other email domains.

Please note:
your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

Solventum Global Terms of Use and Privacy Statement

Carefully read these Terms of Use before using this website.

Your access to and use of this website and application for a job at Solventum are conditioned on your acceptance and compliance with these terms.

Please access the linked document by clicking here, select the country where you are applying for employment, and review. Before submitting your application you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the

terms.
Show more Show less

---