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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 a Facilities Project Engineer - Electrician to join our site based Facilities Engineering team.
Day to day, you will be responsible for supporting our expanding site, focusing predominantly on electrical installation and ongoing planned and reactive maintenance activities. Ensuring full technical compliance at all times, you will coordinating improvements and alterations, and 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.
You will be required to work un-supervised and complete all work tasks in a timely manner, working safely with specific procedures for tasks and documenting all worked carried out an electronic PC based maintenance reporting system. You will also be required to attend site outside normal workings hours as part of an emergency call out rota.
To be successful you will have served a recognised apprentice within electrical engineering or building services, and also hold the 18th Edition qualifications. 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 employees 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!
