JOB DESCRIPTION
Pursue a career as a Controls/Automation Engineer and do work that matters at Abbott. Abbott's Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures leading‑edge glucose monitoring systems and test strips for use in both home and hospital settings. Our product portfolio includes Freestyle Libre, a recently launched system that is revolutionising how people with diabetes around the world monitor their glucose levels. We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people's lives.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Control & Instrumentation Engineer to join our Development Engineering group.
Responsibilities
Contributing to the research and investigation of technologies that may prove suitable for integration into future products and processes, your main responsibility will be to provide Controls & Instrumentation Engineering expertise to a multi‑disciplinary team of scientists and engineers on groundbreaking engineering projects. Whether you find yourself contributing to product development projects from initiation through to manufacture, designing control systems, sourcing and testing instrumentation to prove suitability for application, or characterising and optimising equipment, you will play a pivotal part in the R&D Engineering team.
Working in an R&D environment, you will need to demonstrate a creative and innovative approach to problem solving.
Qualifications
To be successful, you will be qualified at HNC level or higher in Electrical, Electronic or Control Engineering. You will bring strong experience in PLC (Siemens S7), HMI, Motion Control, Vision Systems, Instrumentation, and PID control systems. Additional skills in databases would be beneficial. Practical experience with electrical systems will be required.
Benefits
Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, so we offer a range of optional initiatives, including local community STEM outreach, couch to 5k campaigns, yoga, and more. As an innovative global healthcare company, we offer an excellent starting salary and a competitive range of benefits, including a defined contribution pension scheme, share ownership scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme you can tailor to your own requirements.
Compensation
The base pay for this position is N/A. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Job Family: Engineering
Division: ADC Diabetes Care
Location: United Kingdom > Witney : Range Road
Work Shift: Standard
Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
Requests to Agencies: We politely request that agencies do not make contact in relation to this opportunity.
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