Quality Engineer 1

Abbott Laboratories; Witney; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in glucose monitoring systems seeks a Quality Engineer in Witney. You will ensure compliance and quality in product development and manufacturing. This role involves project management, collaboration with various departments, and a commitment to health and safety. Join a high-achieving team with opportunities for career development and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive Salaries

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Share Ownership Scheme

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Flexible Benefits Scheme

Qualifications

• Prior experience in regulated product development/manufacture is essential.
• Familiarity with cGMP and/or ISO Quality System requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Quality Management System remains robust and compliant.
• Oversee cross-functional team activities to agreed timelines.
• Support projects aimed at improving the quality management system.

Skills

Project Management

Risk Management

Quality Compliance

Education

Secondary Level Education including English and Maths

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Location: Witney, UK

Company: Abbott Diabetes Care

About Abbott Diabetes Care

Bring your passion, ideas, and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential. Known globally for the development of revolutionary technologies, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops, and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. Abbott has been around for 135+ years, developing solutions for the world's health issues and creating a workplace that enables employees to live full lives.

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 site has been instrumental in the research, development, and manufacture of the FreeStyle Libre Continuous Glucose Monitoring System as well as exciting developments in the Libre family including FreeStyle Libre 2, FreeStyle Libre 3, and the Libre Sense system.

The Role

We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people’s lives. As a result of strong business growth and industry-leading product development in the biosensor business, we have an opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our team. This is an opportunity to make a difference and bring your best self to Abbott.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of ensuring our Quality Management System remains robust and compliant. You will review, approve, and assess the impact of changes or corrections to documentation, processes, or systems. Your stances on product quality and compliance during development, validation, processing, manufacturing, testing, monitoring, and packaging will be crucial.

You will be responsible for maintaining your training records and performing functions in compliance with the quality training system. Ensuring that records are completed according to defined procedures and quality standards, and stored securely, will be part of your daily routine.

Project management will be a key aspect of your role, where you will oversee cross-functional team activities to agreed timelines, aligning with business and customer needs. You will use appropriate risk management tools to prioritize activities and define the level of effort required.

Building and maintaining successful relationships with departments such as R&D, Technical, Engineering, Operations, and Regulatory Affairs will be essential to achieving project goals.

You will support projects aimed at developing, implementing, and improving the ADC quality management system, ensuring effective and compliant processes and procedures that meet the needs of ADC and its customers. Your involvement in audits, cross-functional meetings, and projects at both site level and across the division will be vital.

Health and Safety within the working environment will be your responsibility, as well as supporting the team's safety. You will highlight opportunities for improvement to EHS performance. All communication, interpersonal interactions, and business behaviors must be consistent with the Abbott Code of Conduct.

Please note that this is a shift position, with a schedule of 4 days on and 4 off rotating shift pattern, nights.

About You

To be successful in this role, you should have secondary level education, including English and Maths or equivalent. Prior experience in the development and/or manufacture of regulated products is essential to ensure familiarity with cGMP and/or ISO Quality System requirements.

Why Abbott

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, high-achieving team that offers structured career development opportunities within a state-of-the-art manufacturing and development facility, working on a range of exciting and complex new products. Abbott offers a benefits platform that provides security to you and your family. As you’d expect from an innovative global healthcare company, we offer an excellent range of benefits including competitive salaries, a defined contribution pension scheme, share ownership scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme you can tailor to your own requirements.