New Product Development - Technical Associate

Company: Milliken Healthcare Prod (1003)
Location: Spartanburg
Posted on: January 16, 2020

Job Description:

Headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Milliken & Company is a global, innovative, industrial diversified manufacturing company that has been exploring, discovering, and creating ways to enhance people s lives since 1865. With expertise across a breadth of disciplines including specialty chemical, floor covering, and performance materials, the company works around the world every day to add true value to people s lives, improve health and safety, and help make our world more sustainable. Milliken has long led the way for "knowledge-based" investment, employing over 100 PhDs, and has accumulated over 2,200 U.S. patents and more than 5,000 patents worldwide. Milliken is widely acknowledged as an international leader in research technology, innovation, and customer service. With over 35 manufacturing facilities located in the U.S., U.K., Belgium, France, China, India, Mexico, and Australia, and other sales and service operations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, Milliken's more than 7,000 associates work to deliver innovations that do good for the world, create new experiences, and build for the future.

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Job Description: Individual in this position will be part of a dynamic team with a proven track record of inventing, developing, and commercializing FDA registered medical devices, sports medicine systems and animal health products. In this role, the individual will routinely interact with the Sales, Marketing, Research/Development, and Quality functional areas. The associate will oversee the following:

* TS&D / Applications Engineer

* Collaborate with marketing team to gather understanding on how our products perform.

* Create tools to share technical insights to the marketing and sales functions

* Actively seek opportunities to develop tools which support revenue generation, e.g. posters, abstracts, clinical papers, photos, journal articles, presentations, product training tools, and competitive demos. Collaborate with Marketing to create technical literature

* Evaluation of competitive products

* Develop an understanding of product interactions, with a focus on how our products interact with others

* Develop in-vitro tests which can measure critical performance parameters.

* Benchmark in-vivo clinical work, publications, and evidence throughout the industry.

* Work with marketing to translate laboratory and clinical results into viable marketing tools (e.g. posters, published papers, evidence review articles)

* New Product Development

* Research literature to gather knowledge in the products and applications

* Develop, define, implement, communicate and manage new product development projects to defined timelines.

* Develop and execute test protocols, interpret results, and present / publish associated reports

* Apply a working knowledge of relevant manufacturing processes to optimize product design for manufacturability

* Lead and / or participate in design transfer activities

* Development of new methods and validation of the methods to test performance of prototypes or products.

REQUIREMENTS

* Bachelor Degree in Applied Science or equivalent technical degree

* Experience in medical devices, sports medicine or animal health preferred

* Limited travel

Milliken & Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability

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