Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer

Abbott; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in diabetes care, Abbott is seeking a Control & Instrumentation Engineer to join their R&D team in Oxford. The role involves utilizing engineering expertise to contribute to innovative projects, focusing on control systems and instrumentation for advanced glucose monitoring technologies. The position offers an excellent salary and diverse benefits, supporting employee well-being and development.

Benefits

Defined contribution pension scheme

Share ownership scheme

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Flexible benefits scheme

Local community STEM outreach

Couch to 5k campaigns

Yoga sessions

Qualifications

• Strong experience in PLC, HMI, Motion Control, Vision Systems.
• Practical experience in Electrical systems is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide Controls & Instrumentation Engineering expertise to a multi-disciplinary team.
• Contribute to R&D projects from initiation to manufacture.

Skills

PLC (Siemens S7)

HMI

Motion Control

Vision Systems

Instrumentation

PID control systems

Database skills

Practical Electrical systems

Education

HNC or higher in Electrical, Electronic or Control Engineering

Job description

Pursue a career an Controls/Automation Engineering, and do work that matters at Abbott.

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 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 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.

We politely request that agencies do not make contact in relation to this opportunity.