Senior STARS Technician (Quality Inspection Team Lead)

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare company in Witney is seeking a Senior STARS Technician to lead their Product Test team. The role involves ensuring quality and compliance in sensor testing, developing team members, and managing laboratory activities in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have a background in laboratory science, with leadership experience and strong communication skills. Benefits include a competitive salary and a tailored benefits package.

Benefits

Defined-contribution pension scheme

Share ownership scheme

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams and delivering results.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment, GLP and GMP preferred.
• Proactive leader with multitasking capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Product Test team in quality and compliant Sensor testing.
• Ensure quality, yield, and output deliverables.
• Coordinate between teams and support daily laboratory activities.

Skills

Team leadership

Quality assurance

Good communication skills

Time management

Education

Secondary education in English and Mathematics

Tools

Laboratory equipment

Analytical/testing instruments

Job description

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Senior STARS Technician (Quality Inspection Team Lead), Witney

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Client:

Abbott

Location:

Witney, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

07c196723733

Job Views:

15

Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

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, and we have recently launched a new system that will revolutionise 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 Senior STARS Technician to lead our Product Test team in providing quality and compliant Sensor testing.

Developing, leading and motivating your team, you will ensure quality, yield and output deliverables, maintain and champion EHS initiatives, and drive 6s and process improvements. On a day to day basis, you will take ownership for your area, acting as a representative at daily meetings, reporting on metrics, escalating issues effectively, and coordinating between teams. You will support the daily walk-around activities, interacting with quality, engineering, and other relevant support functions as required. Through visual inspection of sensors and undertaking a series of physical testing procedures, you will utilise laboratory equipment, machinery and instruments to perform sensor testing and batch record review and approval to support product release, on-market stability, complaints, and product development trials. In addition to this, you will support the control and scheduling of tests, and monitor and assist with daily laboratory activities, and maintain awareness of new/changed products and processes within the area.

To be successful, you will bring experience of and be passionate about leading teams and delivering results. You should be excited about working in a fast-paced environment within a hard-working and welcoming team. The ideal candidate will be a proactive leader who can effectively multi-task whilst working within the scope of procedures and protocols, and offer good communication and time management skills. This is a shift working role, on a rotating pattern of early and late shifts (0600 – 1400 and 1400 – 2200), on the following basis: Saturday to Wednesday.

You should have completed, as a minimum, secondary education in English and Mathematics. Previous experience of working in a laboratory (including experience of GLP and GMP) and use of a variety of analytical/testing instruments to provide a general knowledge of laboratory science is preferred.

In addition to a competitive salary, Abbott offers a highly attractive benefits package which includes a defined-contribution pension scheme, a share ownership scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme which you can tailor to your own requirements.