Associate/Junior Facilities Project Engineer

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Bring your passion, ideas, and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.

World Leader in Glucose Monitoring, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops, and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. Our Witney site is positioned at the centre of both Manufacturing Excellence and Innovation in the development and manufacture of our test strip and biosensor products used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people’s lives.

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 an Apprentice trained or Degree qualified Engineer to join our site-based Facilities Engineering team, with a particular focus on CCTV, Fire alarms and Security Systems.

Day to day, you will be responsible for supporting our expanding site, focusing predominantly on the field of CCTV, Fire alarms, Security Systems, and Access Control, but also aiding with equipment used to control the manufacturing and support area environments of the facility to close temperature and humidity specifications. Joining an established team, you will assist in the coordination of projects, improvements, and alterations, and you will work closely with both internal teams and external contractors to ensure all activities are carried out within the safe working conditions required by the factory inspectorate and other statutory and regulatory bodies and comply with all relevant local codes and practices and the Abbott engineering Standards.

We’re keen to hear from someone who is looking to develop their engineering exposures into this new area, and we can offer an environment to support your continued growth and development. You will be required to complete all work tasks in a timely manner, working safely with specific procedures for tasks and documenting all worked carried out on an electronic PC based maintenance reporting system, for which training will be provided. You will also be required to attend site outside normal workings hours as part of an emergency call out rota.

This role would suit a graduate in an engineering discipline, or someone who has recently completed a recognised apprenticeship within electrical engineering or building services, and holds the relevant City& Guilds, BTEC or National Diploma qualifications. You will have an interest in developing experience and knowledge of CCTV and Security Systems, as well as supporting capabilities in wider HVAC systems, plant, and components, and building services mechanical systems. We are looking for someone who is ambitious, highly organised and excited about joining a team at the forefront of Diabetes Care innovation. The ideal candidate will be a proactive individual who takes initiative and is able to work within a small team, but interactive on a wider business scale. You will need to have excellent communication and time management skills, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment.

In addition to a competitive salary, Abbott offers a highly attractive benefits package which includes a defined-contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme which you can tailor to your own requirements. Here at Witney, we also like to help our employee’s 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!