Project Engineer II
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Occupation TypeEngineering project managers and project engineers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£51,900
(£26.62 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.
As a result of strong business growth, industry-leading product development in the biosensor business and a long-term commitment to high volume manufacturing in our Witney Centre of Excellence, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operations Engineering team.
About The Role
As a Project Engineer, you’ll have opportunity to introduce significant bespoke automated machines and play an initial step in the validation of them. The role is essential to our business as we bring on board more machines, and look to make improvements to existing ones. Your work starts through being connected with many on site cross-functional teams, where you will be a key voice in owning of the validation strategy that you and the team will undertake. Day to day, you will :
Why This Role Is Exciting
As a result of strong business growth, industry-leading product development in the biosensor business and a long-term commitment to high volume manufacturing in our Witney Centre of Excellence, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operations Engineering team.
About The Role
As a Project Engineer, you’ll have opportunity to introduce significant bespoke automated machines and play an initial step in the validation of them. The role is essential to our business as we bring on board more machines, and look to make improvements to existing ones. Your work starts through being connected with many on site cross-functional teams, where you will be a key voice in owning of the validation strategy that you and the team will undertake. Day to day, you will :
- create a project plan in order to deliver the work to the business, taking into consideration timelines, assessment and minimisation of risks, communication to stakeholders
- be connected to and very much aware of what the changes your project is introducing to the business, and aware of the benefits it will be delivering on
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 d
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 d
esigns, 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 stringent quality standards demanded by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems.