Controls and Instrumentation Engineer
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Job Location:
Oxfordshire - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Pursue a career an Controls/Automation Engineering and do work that matters at Abbott.
Abbotts 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 peoples lives.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Control & Instrumentation Engineer to join our Development Engineering group.
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.
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 youd 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.
YOUR OWN RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK
We welcome applications from candidates already eligible to work in the UK or those that can apply for a visa granting permission to work in the UK (e.g. dependent visas ancestry etc.) that do not require sponsorship from Abbott. You will be asked to share proof of this prior to receiving any offer of employment. We would like to make you aware that if you are made an offer of employment with Abbott you will need to remain on your current visa / permit. If for any reason your visa status changes we will be unable to offer you sponsorship in the addition the Company would not fund any subsequent non sponsored visa applications - you will be solely responsible for paying and maintaining your own right to work in the some instances we may not be able to offer you a permanent contract.
Any employment offer made by Abbott is contingent upon you obtaining and maintaining the right to work and reside legally in the UK. You are required to notify us immediately if your immigration status changes after you have submitted your application.
GRADUATES BASED IN THE UK
If you are on a Graduate visa we cannot guarantee you sponsorship from within the UK upon its only has a set number of Certificate of Sponsorship applications that can be made each year which are utilized for highly skilled workers transferring internally. If this limit is reached and other Home Office requirements cannot be met it will prevent us from being able to sponsor and therefore employ you unless you are able to secure your own right to work in the UK following the expiry of a Graduate visa
We politely request that agencies do not make contact in relation to this opportunity.
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn 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
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Controlling Experience
- E & I
- Electrical Engineering
- System Design
- Distributed Control Systems
- Calibration
- NEC
- LabView
- Wastewater
- Sensors
- Autocad
- Programmable Logic Controllers
About Company
WHO WE ARE CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s ... View more
