Application Engineer – Personal Safety Division

• Drive growth through customer collaboration, new application development, and new product commercialization
• Develop value propositions for effective commercialization
• Coordinate and lead customer field trials and evaluate local competition and marketing practices
• Develop and replicate product and market applications using e-tools
• Provide customer-facing technical and application engineering support across the Personal Safety Division portfolio in New Zealand
• Conduct customer visits, workplace assessments, and application evaluations
• Understand workplace hazards and customer requirements and provide product selection and technical recommendations
• Support product demonstrations, field trials, performance evaluations, troubleshooting, and product implementation
• Partner with Sales and Marketing on strategic customer opportunities and major account conversions
• Support distributor and channel partner development
• Capture customer insights, market intelligence, unmet needs, and application feedback
• Support customer trials, field evaluations, product validation, product transitions, product changes, and launch readiness
• Deliver customer, distributor, and internal sales training, technical seminars, and application workshops
• Support technical complaint investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and customer communication
• Support product certification and compliance activities and provide technical input on applicable standards

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science or a related technical discipline
• Relevant experience in Application Engineering, Technical Service, Industrial Safety, PPE or a related technical field
• Experience in customer-facing technical roles and working with distributors/channel partners
• Exposure to product evaluations, NPI, technical training and complaint resolution
• Knowledge of relevant PPE standards and regulatory requirements is desirable
• Strong application engineering and technical problem-solving capability
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to understand workplace hazards and recommend appropriate technical solutions
• Broad understanding of PPE and Personal Safety applications
• Ability to influence and collaborate across Sales, Marketing, R&D, Quality and Regulatory teams
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently across a geographically diverse customer base
• Regular business travel, primarily to Auckland, with occasional travel to other regional locations as needed

• Remote work arrangement
• Permanent employment
• Regular business travel primarily to Auckland, with occasional travel to other regional locations
• Opportunity to contribute to 3M’s innovation-focused work
• Employee participation in Environmental Health and Safety culture and continuous improvement