Associate Engineer R&D, Vision Systems (Graduate level role)

World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott's Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the design and manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes.

As a result of strong business growth and industry-leading product development in the biosensor business, R&D have an opportunity for an Associate Engineer to join our R&D Engineering team focusing on Vision System development.

The role of the Associate Engineer (Vision Systems) is to provide support and assistance with Engineering and Systems projects, with a focus on Vision systems. Work could include the development of inspection systems, including vision programming, running trials on manufacturing equipment, collecting and analysing data and writing reports. The main focus will be around the development and implementation of Vision Systems with our bespoke equipment, and manufacturing and test processes.

You will need to have completed a Degree level qualification in a relevant Engineering, Scientific or Technology discipline, and ideally bring engineering/technical experience, for example understanding technical drawings, problem solving, use of CAD systems, designing tests and experiments. Over time, Abbott will support your development in Vision Systems expertise, and we would therefore welcome applications from people keen to develop this specialist skill set.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly multi-skilled Development Engineering team working with brand new state-of-the-art equipment from benchtop protypes to full-scale production systems. Engineering skill is key to us, with members working in areas including Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Controls Engineering including Machine vision. We also have our own fully equipped workshop.

Abbott offers a benefits platform that provides security to you and your family. 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, subsidized 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 local community STEM outreach, couch to 5k campaigns, yoga and more!

YOUR OWN RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK

We welcome applications from candidates already eligible to work in the UK or those that can apply for a visa granting permission to work in the UK (e.g. dependent visas, ancestry etc.) that do not require sponsorship from Abbott. You will be asked to share proof of this prior to receiving any offer of employment. We would like to make you aware that if you are made an offer of employment with Abbott you will need to remain on your current visa / permit. If for any reason your visa status changes, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship in the future. In addition, the Company would not fund any subsequent non sponsored visa applications - you will be solely responsible for paying and maintaining your own right to work in the UK. In some instances we may not be able to offer you a permanent contract.

Any employment offer made by Abbott is contingent upon you obtaining and maintaining the right to work and reside legally in the UK. You are required to notify us immediately if your immigration status changes after you have submitted your application.

GRADUATES BASED IN THE UK

If you are on a Graduate visa, we cannot guarantee you sponsorship from within the UK upon its expiry. Abbott only has a set number of Certificate of Sponsorship applications that can be made each year, which are utilized for highly skilled workers transferring internally. If this limit is reached and other Home Office requirements cannot be met, it will prevent us from being able to sponsor and therefore employ you, unless you are able to secure your own right to work in the UK following the expiry of a Graduate visa.