Abbott
Project Engineer 2 - Production Equipment Validation
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Project Engineer – Operations Engineering
Witney Centre of Excellence, Abbott
Bring your passion, ingenuity, and performance-focused mindset to a company where your potential drives impact—join Abbott, the global leader in health innovation, to shape the future of biosensor manufacturing.
About the Role
We are growing fast in biomedical automation, expanding our high-volume manufacturing at our Witney Centre of Excellence, and need an ambitious Project Engineer to lead the design, validation, and integration of bespoke automated machinery. You’ll:
- Play a critical role in transitioning new validated production machines into industry-leading manufacturing, directly impacting the inspection and production of medical-grade biosensors.
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams to own the validation strategy, from project planning, risk mitigation, to technical test development.
- Develop expertise as a subject matter expert in automated equipment, driving continuous improvement with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Day-to-day execution
- Create detailed project plans (timelines, risk assessments, stakeholder communication).
- Tie company-wide operational changes to their business impact, validating systems that ensure optimised manufacturing end-to-end.
- Assemble and validate capital equipment projects, enhancing production capacity for biochemical devices.
Technical leadership
- Take full ownership of technical equipment validations, designing real-world tests to verify machine capabilities under medical device standards.
- Work closely with suppliers, including site visits to monitor development progress.
- Document processes impeccably for regulated environments, ensuring compliance with stringent quality controls.
Growth mindset and contribution
- Expand into influential technical and management roles (senior engineering, mentorship, line management).
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Why This Role Is Exciting
Impact
Your work will drive healthcare advancements, powering diagnostic systems for thousands suffering from diabetesand chronic conditions. Your expertise on automation, machine vision, and pharmaceutical-grade production standards reshapes Abbott’s biosensors business, scaling solutions for global patient needs.
Career
- A stepping stone to senior engineering via project leadership, managerial growth, or deepening technical expertise (engineering, integration, or automation).
- Collaborate within a dynamic engineering community: partners in R&D, systems, process improvement, software development, and machine vision.
Culture
At Witney, talent thrives in creative collaboration. Innovate alongside teammates who pair cutting-edge skills with a culture fostering ‘lifelong learning’. From weekly hackathons to in-house skills-sharing, your development is unwaveringly supported.
Requirements
Experience & Background
You have the appetite to define the future of medical automation within regulated environments. To thrive, you should:
- Hold a minimum HNC in an Engineering discipline (degree preferred).
- Deliver high-visibility automated machinery projects in a manufacturing/assembly context—minimise defects, document procedure and compliance protocols, and manage cross-functional teams.
- Favour structured problem-solving over ambiguity, focusing on quantifiable outcomes (e.g. by driving cost reduction, optimising turnaround times).
- Commit to high quality, including maintaining trackable, complex documentation for audits.
Key Traits
Collaborative spirit • Passion for automated system intuition champions • Hunger to mentee engineers and suppliers • Thrive in a lean environment, challenging status quo while upholding EU/US authority quality standards.
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Benefits at Abbott
In Witney and beyond, all employees earn:
Clinical Rewards
- Competitive salaries with market-leading profit-sharing & defined contribution pensions (matched contributions up to 8% of salary).
- Direct annual contributions (prorated) towards enhanced healthcare packages—covering a broad scope of vision, dental, prescriptions, and world-class medical coverage.
Trade-offs for Wellbeing
- Flexible childcare support, life assurance, and alert pay subsidy for medical emergencies.
Work-life balance
- Off-site allotments, yoga, subsidised canteens, cycle-to-work schemes
- Regular events from ‘Couch-to-5K’ to bee-keeping workshops
Employee Growth
- Lifelong learning budgets, mentorship opportunities, and junior candidates welcomed into leadership training.
About Abbott
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“Your better health future evolves because we take hearts and minds into every healthcare story.”
As World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott’s Witney site produces 1.7 billion biosensors annually—essential devices for patient care. As part of result-centric manufacturing, you’d contribute to meeting quality benchmarks that EU & US regulatory authorities respect.
At Abbott, your purpose connects potential. Explore yours. The Project Engineer role in Witney, Operating Engineering team, invites you to elevate—be bold.
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