Why This Role Is Exciting
This is more than a job — it’s a chance to grow. You’ll work with state‑of‑the‑art automation technologies alongside an incredibly skilled engineering community spanning projects, process, production, systems, software, R&D, and machine vision. Your work will directly shape the future of healthcare by supporting our expanding biosensor manufacturing capabilities.
The role offers opportunity to progress through development to senior engineering level – this might be line managing for some, or technical expertise for others.
What We’re Looking For
We’d love to hear from you if you bring
✔️ A minimum of HNC in Engineering discipline, with preference given to degree level education
✔️ Proven experience in Project Engineering, with preference to Automated Machinery
✔️ Technical project management of your projects
✔️ A passion for problem‑solving
✔️ Curiosity, technical rigour, and an eye for continuous improvement
✔️ Strong documentation discipline
✔️ A collaborative mindset and willingness to mentor others
✔️ An awareness and understanding of regulated environments
As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, 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 like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including onsite allotments, couch to 5k campaigns, bee keeping, yoga and more!
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 high quality standards required by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems.
- 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 : Production Facility
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS
WORK SHIFT
Standard
TRAVEL
Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES
Not Applicable
