Job Description:
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As an Application Engineer in the Personal Safety Division for the Netherlands and Belgium, you will have the opportunity to apply your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.
Here, you will make an impact by:
1. Providing customer-facing technical guidance, serving as the primary application engineer for consultancy on product performance, regulatory requirements, and applicable standards for 3M Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
2. Delivering tailored evaluations, demonstrations, and trials at customer sites to validate PPE application fit, optimize outcomes, and accelerate adoption.
3. Assessing customer use conditions, compliance needs, and hazard considerations to recommend the most suitable solution from our portfolio, including configurations, accessories and care and maintenance guidelines.
4. Supporting the sales cycle (pre- and post-sale) with technical proposals, compliance mappings (PPE Regulation), and risk-mitigation recommendations that enable confident product selection.
5. Collaborating with account managers, marketing, product development, and regulatory affairs to align on customer requirements, to deploy solutions efficiently and to drive safety culture development throughout all industries.
6. Advancing application-engineering best practices and worker health and safety through customer trainings, webinars, 3rd party engagement and technical content that reinforce our credibility with customers.
Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who meet following minimum requirements:
7. A bachelor’s or master’s degree in chemistry or related sciences.
8. Experience related to occupational health and safety.
9. Familiarity with general health and safety regulations in the Netherlands and Belgium and the willingness to elevate that knowledge.
10. Ability to interact as an effective intermediary between 3M and customers at all levels.
11. Fluent in Dutch English and ideally also French.
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
Job specifics:
Does this opportunity and our innovative 3M culture align with your career aspirations?
If so, we encourage you to apply and embark on a journey of creativity and growth with us.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Resources for You
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Safety is a core value at 3M. All employees are expected to contribute to a strong Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture by following safety policies, identifying hazards, and engaging in continuous improvement.At 3M, we believe diversity & inclusion are essential to innovation. We seek and value differences in people! This Job ad is addressed to all potential candidates. As an equal opportunity employer 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race/ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity-related matters, age or disability, or any other relevant characteristic protected under applicable local law.