JOB DESCRIPTION:
Make an impact through your work, every day.
Abbott's Diabetes Care businedesigns, develops and manufactures leading-edge glucose monitoring systems and test strips for use in both home and hospital settings. We have launched a monitoring system that revolutionises 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.
To support our continued site expansion, we currently have an opportunity within the R&D team for an experience scientist to join us. This team provide product R&D support activities through scientific experimentation and concept development.
This position is at the heart of the R&D team within the Sterility Assurance and product Integrity development team and your input and delivery of results will be instrumental in the achievement of key product and process innovations in the UK, Ireland and the US. In this role, you will have a key focus on the technical writing and documentation aspects of sterility assurance within our processes – you will support the assessment of our existing practices and methods in ensuring ongoing compliance through development changes and innovation lifecycles. The role will also play a key role with sterilization validations activities and support novel modality projects.
You should be excited about working in a fast-paced environment within a hard-working and welcoming team. The position offers a wide-range of opportunities to grow your technical and scientific knowledge, as well as analysing data, evaluating results and forming conclusions, and using your technical writing skills to produce reports and documents.
To be successful, you will ideally be degree qualified in a scientific discipline, bring experience of working with sterility assurance compliance, and have a strong desire to learn and develop professionally.
The ideal candidates will be a proactive individual who takes initiative and is able to work within a team. You will need to have good communication, analytical and time management skills, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment. There will be opportunity to collaborate within R&D, and with quality, operations and engineering functions in the UK, Ireland and the US.
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. 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!
The base pay for this position is
N/A
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:Research and Discovery
DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:United Kingdom > Witney : Production Facility
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Not Applicable
