Textile Development Professional - Automotive Airbag

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Date: Sep 22, 2026

Location: LaGrange, GA, US, 30240

Company: Milliken and Company

Milliken & Company is a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow’s breakthroughs today. From industry-leading molecules to sustainable innovations, Milliken creates products that enhance people’s lives and deliver solutions for its customers and communities. Drawing on thousands of patents and a portfolio with applications across the textile, flooring, chemical and healthcare businesses, the company harnesses a shared sense of integrity and excellence to positively impact the world for generations.

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POSITION TITLE

Textile Development Professional
- Automotive Airbag

POSITION OVERVIEW

Milliken Automotive Airbag develops and manufactures high-performance airbag fabrics and solutions for the global automotive market, helping protect vehicle occupants through advanced safety technologies. As automotive safety requirements continue to evolve, our business is focused on delivering innovative, high-quality products that meet the industry's rigorous performance standards while supporting the next generation of vehicle safety systems.

Innovation is a key driver of our growth strategy. By combining deep technical expertise with strong customer partnerships and market-focused business development, we continue to advance airbag fabric technologies that enhance vehicle safety, reliability, and performance. Our products support a wide range of airbag applications, including driver, passenger, side-impact, curtain, knee, and specialty restraint systems.

We are seeking an individual with unique talents and a passion for innovation to help advance our technical and business development initiatives. This position is located in LaGrange, GA, and reports to the Development Manager.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead the development, engineering, and commercialization of woven fabric products, including both One-Piece Woven (OPW) and flat-woven constructions, across coated and uncoated applications.

Develop and optimize fabric designs by evaluating yarn selection, weave construction, fabric architecture, finishing, coating, and processing parameters to meet customer, performance, quality, and manufacturing requirements.

Serve as the technical fabric expert throughout the product-development lifecycle, supporting products from initial concept and prototyping through manufacturing scale-up and commercialization.

Partner with Manufacturing and Quality to establish and optimize weaving, finishing, coating, and other fabric-processing parameters, ensuring new products are manufacturable, scalable, and capable of consistently meeting specifications.

Design and coordinate development trials, prototypes, testing, and sample production, using DOE, statistical analysis, FMEA, root-cause analysis, and other structured problem-solving tools to guide development decisions.

Troubleshoot fabric, process, quality, and product-performance issues, identify root causes, implement sustainable corrective actions, and drive improvements in quality, yield, process capability, efficiency, and cost.

Partner with customers and internal commercial teams to translate application and performance requirements into fabric constructions and technical specifications, while providing technical support for customer trials, concerns, and product qualification activities.

Maintain appropriate technical documentation and product-development records, support PPAPs and customer qualification requirements, and collaborate cross-functionally…