Overview
Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.
As a result of strong business growth, industry-leading product development in the biosensor business and a long-term commitment to high volume manufacturing in our Witney Centre of Excellence, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operations Engineering team.
The role of the Project Engineer will focus on managing, developing and performing process equipment validations for our bespoke machines used to manufacture and test our medical devices. You will provide technical project management input, and become an engineering point of contact working in wider project teams. You will be able to own project tasks and deliverables, responsible and committed to ensure that agreed project deliverables meet the requirements. You will manage complex capital projects with suppliers and subcontractors (including occasional site visits), collaborating with different stakeholders across the business in an inclusive and dynamic work environment.
This role will offer plenty of opportunity to grow and build your engineering career whilst helping to shape the future of healthcare.
Responsibilities
* Manage, develop and perform process equipment validations for bespoke machines used to manufacture and test medical devices.
* Provide technical project management input and act as an engineering point of contact within wider project teams.
* Own project tasks and deliverables, ensuring they meet requirements.
* Manage complex capital projects with suppliers and subcontractors, including occasional site visits.
* Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the business in an inclusive and dynamic environment.
Qualifications
* Degree level education in an Engineering discipline.
* Proven experience in Project Engineering.
* Thirst for problem solving, interest in automated machinery, and an inquisitive mind to explore technical opportunities.
* Ability to follow procedures and create accurate documents and records of work in a highly regulated industry.
* Willingness to share experience with other team members and act as a role model/mentor.
Benefits
This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly skilled Engineering team working with brand new state-of-the-art automation in a fast growing area of our business.
We offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidised canteen and a flexible benefits scheme. Here at Witney, we also offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including onsite allotments, couch to 5k campaigns, beekeeping, yoga and more!
About Abbott
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.
With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.
World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott's Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. The Operations group is the largest team in the Witney facility, producing high volumes of test strips and biosensors each year to the stringent quality standards demanded by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems.
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