What you’ll do:

• Operates braiding machines in accordance with company SOP’s and Work Instructions for applicable machines.
• Manufactures products to Secant Internal specifications to meet final product customer specifications by operating and monitoring equipment; observing varying conditions; adjusting equipment control.
• Sets up braiding equipment by threading yarn through guides and tensions as defined in SOP’s and Work Instructions.
• Follows internal specifications and work instructions to manufactures braids according to the customer requirements.
• Monitors and ensures good quality production as defined in specifications and work instructions.
• Documents production by completing production records, forms, and logbooks.
• Performs general maintenance on machines, including cleaning and preventive maintenance.
• Works with supervisor to ensure machines are correctly calibrated and all preventative maintenance complete and up to date prior to use.
• Works with fine denier multifilament, mono filament, and wire.
• Sets up and runs winding machines in accordance with SOP’s and Work Instructions.
• Measures braider specifications including outer diameter, braid angle, pore size and diamond length using the optical comparator, pick glass or caliper.
• May design or modify appropriate mandrels or operating techniques as allowable within all product specifications and work instructions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Who you are:

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional time management.
• Ability to manage a technical project.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to get along well with others and work in a team environment.
• Excellent dependability and reliability.
• Ability to independently prioritize and execute projects and responsibilities.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to work in a high paced environment with limited direction.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to compute and measure in metric.

Why join us:

We promote a collaborative, high energy, and fast-paced environment. Using fact-based data, our team members strive to constantly improve our processes and products. We nurture an environment where employees can creatively innovate solutions that drive impactful results both for the business and themselves.

What we offer:

• Health Insurance: Medical with Rx plan / Dental / Vision
• 401k (retirement savings) with excellent company match
• Profit Sharing Plan
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Year-End Incentive Plans
• Paid Time off
• Holiday Pay

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.

Secant Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a commitment to providing equal access to employment. We value diversity and encourage applications from all genders, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, veterans, and disabled individuals.

Secant Group is a drug-free workplace. All offers of employment are contingent on passing a drug screen as well as a background investigation (including a criminal courts history, driving record report if applicable, and social security name and number verification). The company provides reasonable accommodations for disabilities.