Sr. Product Development Engineer, Biomaterials

Job Description

Job Description

What we are looking for :

The Sr. Product Development Engineer, Biomaterials drives the development, validation, and commercialization of custom biomaterial components supporting the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, with activities including new designs, material conversion, process optimization, process qualification and quality compliance. This position works intimately with the R&D team and regularly interfaces with business development, clients, contract manufacturers, operations, and quality engineering to deliver tasks and quality documents in accordance with the integrated product development process (IPDP).

What you will do :

• Lead and manage multiple projects for Research and Development in various stages of the product lifecycle in line with agreed commitments to respective clients.
• Collaborate with Research and Development team to gain fundamental understanding of materials and processes to effectively ready technology for transition to New Product Development.
• Partner with scientists to develop processes such as coating, formulation, mixing, dispensing, foaming, thermal processing, cross-linking, API handling, polymer synthesis to develop scalable processing techniques as needed for client’s end application.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to facilitate projects through development cycle with ultimate transition of manufacturing process to Operations per IPDP.
• Design processes that are scalable to a production environment based on client inputs and volume requirements.
• Communicate manufacturing and process development status, expectations, and constraints to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Documents all project phases per IPDP and quality compliance. Compile, maintain, review and interpret product development data.
• Authors SOPs, Work Instructions, Batch Records, Product Specifications, Process Performance Qualification, Process Operational Qualification protocol plans and reports critical to Product development.
• Support Business managers with technical inputs to customers for early development programs and support Quality Assurance team with any non-conformance investigations as a subject matter expert.
• Other duties as assigned.

Who you are :

What we offer :

Who we are :

The Secant Group is an advanced technology biomaterials company headquartered in Telford, Pennsylvania, with manufacturing facilities in Quakertown and Perkasie, Pennsylvania. Secant provides innovative solutions through next-generation materials, structures, textile designs, and process technologies for the medical device, pharmaceutical, aerospace and energy markets.