Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer

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 ributing 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.

You will be working in an R&D environment, so will need to be able to demonstrate a creative and innovative approach to problem solving.

To be successful, you will be qualified to HNC level or higher in an Electrical, Electronic or Control Engineering discipline. You will bring strong experience in PLC (Siemens S7), HMI, Motion Control, Vision Systems, Instrumentation and PID control systems, and additional skills in databases would be beneficial. Practical experience of Electrical systems will be required.  

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 local community STEM outreach, couch to 5k campaigns, yoga and more!

As you’d expect from 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 which you can tailor to your own requirements.

An equal opportunity employer - Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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