3M

Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Job Description

Posted on: 
October 9, 2025

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

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.

Work Location:  Alexandria, MN On-Site

Travel: May include up to 15% Domestic

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

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

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Responsibilities

As an Environmental, Health and Safety Manager, 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:

  • Providing environment, health and safety leadership and direction, in consultation with the EHS Staff and site leadership teams for the 3M Alexandria, MN location.
  • Setting short and long-term strategic direction, site EHS priorities, and assign resources.
  • Maintaining full responsibility for functional EHS results.
  • Ensuring operational Environmental, Health and Safety performance through comprehensive delineation of health and safety requirements, active and visible leadership, and effective coaching with site leaders to assure employee engagement.
  • Ensuring compliance to all applicable standards and regulations, and conformance to all 3M environmental, health and safety expectations.
  • Actively supporting EHS Cultural Excellence through personal responsibility for safety, health, and environment, promoting an improvement culture to address incidents, near-misses and potential hazards.

Job Requirements

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 or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
  • Ten (10) years with EHS programs and procedures within a private, public, government or military environment

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

  • Five (5) combined years’ experience in a leadership and/or supervisory role.
  • Master’s degree or higher in a science, engineering, or environmental health and safety (EHS) discipline from an accredited institution
  • Demonstrated ability to lead change and drive improvement.
  • Self-directed, detail oriented, good interpersonal, communication, coaching, prioritization, and organizational skills.
  • Analytical, strategic planning, program development and deployment skills including leading cross-functional teams
  • Applicable EHS certification(s) (CSP, CIH, QEP, CHMM)

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