Senior Textile Engineer

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Description:

This position will lead projects for medical textiles with process development and product design activities in mind and compliance to all quality and regulatory requirements. This is a full-time, on-site position. This role is an Independent Contributor role. There are no direct reports for this position. Interaction is potentially with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute process validations and design verification testing in coordination with project teams.
• Provide technical expertise to improve process efficiency and product quality for winding, warping, and knitting operations.
• Support design and development teams for new medical fibers and textiles.
• Interface with internal cross-functional team members to develop specifications, coordinate prototype fabrication of customer designed parts, and transition prototypes into manufactured components.
• Design experiments to provide data based conclusion about a process or product performance.
• Recommend and rationalize specifications for development products.
• Develop test methods for evaluation of new products.
• Assist with implementing corrective actions (CAPA) with Quality Assurance.
• Operate processing equipment in a specific process area.
• Conduct analytical techniques with the ability to interpret results for project recommendations.
• Provide input to risk assessment activities such as FMEA.
• Support patent filing and claims.
• Write technical reports detailing procedures, outcomes, and observations.

Required/Preferable Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must have experience with textile processing such as fiber extrusion, yarn formation, braiding, winding, warping, knitting, and heat treatment of fiber and textiles.
• Prior experience with medical fibers and textiles preferred, especially bioabsorbable/bioresorbable materials.
• Prior experience working in an ISO 9001, ISO 13485, or GMP facility.
• Ability to handle confidential business information.
• Understanding of statistical methods and associated statistical analysis software. Preferred experience with Minitab or other statistical software packages.
• Understanding of cause-effect relations between process inputs and product specifications.
• Understanding of the effect of a process on downstream steps or customer needs.
• Ability to design experiments and evaluate data using polymer and textile characterization techniques (tensile, burst, tear, porosity, DSC, GPC, viscosity, etc.).
• Ability to be a team player.
• Utilization of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) for project execution and internal communication purposes.

Education/Experience Requirements:

Required- Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years industry experience or Advanced Degree with 5+ years of industry experience.

Working Conditions at Poly-Med, Inc.:

At Poly-Med, Inc., the safety and health of every employee are of the utmost importance. The use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, hearing protection devices (ear plugs or earmuffs), and gloves may be required in various working areas.

Physical Requirements:

Employees are regularly required to talk and hear and are frequently required to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time. Employees are frequently required to walk with occasional requirements to climb stairs; use of hands for gross manipulation, reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, and/or crouch. Lifting as required with proper lifting techniques up to 50 pounds on occasion. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Poly-Med, Inc. offers a great selection of benefits including vacation time.

Poly-Med, Inc. employees are paid once a month.

Poly-Med, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Poly-Med, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

Company DescriptionAbout Us:
Poly-Med is the leading developer of bioresorbable polymers and fibers. We help innovative medical device companies focused on improving patient outcomes. Poly-Med designs, develops and manufactures superior materials to get customer products to market in the most efficient manner with the greatest improvement to quality of life. Located in Anderson, South Carolina, Poly-Med, Inc. has been recognized as a leader in the industry for over 20 years. Poly-Med continues to grow in a multitude of medical device modalities. Our novel materials are key in actively enabling products ranging from vascular stents, hernia meshes, dental delivery systems, dental hygiene, and a variety of wound closure applications in the worldwide medical device market.

For additional information, visit our website at www.poly-med.com.

Our Team:
We employ a widely diverse team comprised of experts from material science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, biology, business marketing, and project management to create a work environment focused on solving tough medically related problems. Our team is energetic, resourceful, and, above all, collaborative. We are searching for like-minded talent to build on our success and continue our quest to improve patient outcomes through novel polymeric and drug delivery systems.Company DescriptionAbout Us:\r
Poly-Med is the leading developer of bioresorbable polymers and fibers. We help innovative medical device companies focused on improving patient outcomes. Poly-Med designs, develops and manufactures superior materials to get customer products to market in the most efficient manner with the greatest improvement to quality of life. Located in Anderson, South Carolina, Poly-Med, Inc. has been recognized as a leader in the industry for over 20 years. Poly-Med continues to grow in a multitude of medical device modalities. Our novel materials are key in actively enabling products ranging from vascular stents, hernia meshes, dental delivery systems, dental hygiene, and a variety of wound closure applications in the worldwide medical device market.\r
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For additional information, visit our website at www.poly-med.com.\r
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Our Team:\r
We employ a widely diverse team comprised of experts from material science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, biology, business marketing, and project management to create a work environment focused on solving tough medically related problems. Our team is energetic, resourceful, and, above all, collaborative. We are searching for like-minded talent to build on our success and continue our quest to improve patient outcomes through novel polymeric and drug delivery systems.

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