Senior Application Engineer for EV battery solutions in Automotive Market

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Job Description:

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. While operationally we are organized by countries / regions / area around the globe, our R&D Organization is a one Global Lab. Thus, with a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

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 in our team:

Understand customer needs by working with the technical teams, business and directly with customers as applicable – auto OEMs and their Tier Supplies; use 3M products and technology to understand, and articulate technical solutions for use in the Automotive domain, applicable but not limited to attachment solutions, engineered films, materials for noise vibration and harshness, high temperature resistant solutions and thermal management applications. Understanding current standards, customer requirements and competitive threats and empower and enable business to become more competitive.

What You Will Do:

As an Application 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. You will directly support our Automotive market Segments supporting OEMs, Key Accounts, Tiers & Vendors and will make an impact by:

• Working closely with customers to capture their needs and creatively translate them into solutions that are either existing products or actionable requirements for new products across all subsystems in an automobile – e.g. Exterior, Interior, Body in White, e-Powertrain and Exhaust solutions.
• Leading technical interactions with customers to understand their needs, gathering their feedback and translating their requirements into product use requirements.
• Determining if existing 3M solutions meet customer needs or if a new product will be needed.
• Ensure alignment of requirements, timelines and milestones between the customer and 3M.
• Maintain/strengthen relationships with key account customers through regular visits, training, and tech events.
• Developing, supervising, and performing product evaluations to demonstrate product performance for our customers.
• Supporting winning businesses, through data driven interactions with customers and developing customer specific application-relevant data packages and product use information.
• Working with customers and 3M to develop wholistic solutions using 3M product as well as process understanding of automotive customers.
• Locally supporting product change projects, including raw material substitutions, manufacturing process modifications, and new product commercialization programs.
• Implementing product standards with our customers and completing associated documentation
• Identifying and validating test methods to prove and demonstrate product robustness in customer applications.
• Supporting New Product Introductions in collaboration with product development and other teams involved.
• Be an active participant at trials and evaluations in collaboration with peer technical and manufacturing teams to drive success and evaluations with our partners and suppliers.
• Leading the way on application development including responsibilities for ideation, documentation, feasibility analysis, and validation.
• Collaborating with and guiding multiple teams to ensure the success of application implementation, including marketing, partners and suppliers, and customers.
• Providing application support and training to customers, including in-person visits and e-media development.
• Gaining a complete understanding of the application effectiveness by leading field trials and internal testing along with analyzing and presenting findings.
• Well-versed with RFQ-PPAP Processes in compliance to IATF16949 followed by Auto OEMs and under the governing principles of Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) &/OR specific system requirements followed by OEMs of Korean Orgin.
• Creating and protecting 3M intellectual property through the filing of new patent applications and trade secrets.
• Guiding and supporting the back-end team with new technology adoption trends in the markets and be an active follower of those trends in Korea, Asia, and other places globally.
• Represent the company at external conferences/ events.
• Be an active member of the Global Application Engineering, R&D Community.
• About You - Skills and Qualifications:

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above (Post Graduate degree is preferable) in Mechanical / Chemical and / or Materials Science Engineering / Allied subjects from a recognized and reputed university.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant Industry work experience, including but not limited to automotive, industrial segments and customers having sound application of Engineering fundamentals and problem solving. 
• Understanding and experience in EV battery technology and cell chemistry will be of significant advantage.
• Digitally sound, with good knowledge of Chat GPT, Tableau, Power BI, having knowledge and understanding in 3D Modelling, and related technical tools along with familiarity with computer-aided simulation (FEM, CFD)
• Some knowledge of Business Financials will be an added advantage.

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Desired Soft Skills:

• Clear & persuasive communicator (both spoken and written) and presenter and having good verbal and written communication skills in Korean and English.
• Strong customer relations and interpersonal skills. Presenting results to technical and non-technical stakeholders/customers in a data-driven and convincing manner.
• Be a pathfinder to the team in driving new application opportunities and demonstrate eagerness to be involved alike.
• Passion for Automobile engineering, new age technology- learning and upskilling will be an added advantage.
• Solution seeker – ability to critically evaluate different solutions to address the needs of the market.
• Commercial intensity- track record to drive products to commercial successes.
• Ability to manage risk and creativity to solve unusually hard problems with deep reasoning ability, both analytic and strategic - without being unipolar all the time.
• Leadership and networking skills and demonstrated ability to work in a cross functional team environment.
• Leadership and networking skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
• Remain as a motivator to peers in driving excellence and business performance and continually enhance self-credibility to command respect amongst peers, partners, suppliers, customers, and stakeholders (internal or external).

Condition

• Type: 정규직 (수습기간 3개월)
• Location: 한국3M 동탄 기술연구소 (경기 화성시 삼성1로5길 7 )

Application Guidelines (입사 지원 시 주의사항)

• Click ‘Apply ’ button
• Fill in basic information such as employment and education
• Upload your both of Korean/English Resume (merge your files into one file )(이력서 내 경력기술서 및 자기소개서 포함)

Others

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