Operations Project Engineering Internship - Summer 2025 intake - Year in Industry

Witney, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

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The Opportunity

Our Diabetes Care business have an exciting opportunity for 2 Project Engineering Interns to join our Operations Engineering team for an approximately 13-month internship (starting Summer 2025) at our Manufacturing Centre of Excellence site in Witney, Oxfordshire. 

The Main Purpose Of The Role

• To be a part of a highly-skilled team delivering innovative solutions to complex challenges in an automated manufacturing process.
• To provide support and assistance with Engineering and systems projects, documentation and other activities in compliance with site, Corporate and external regulatory requirements.
• To assist Engineering and Scientific personnel in executions of Engineering and Validation activities.
• Examples of this include machine specification, testing/characterisation of process and equipment, designing experiments/protocols to prove machine/product functions as required.
• Work could include running trials on manufacturing equipment, creating models, collecting and analysing data and writing reports.
• Exposure and insight to our Validation procedures for qualifying production equipment that is used for manufacturing components for medical devices.
  
  

The Main Responsibilities Are As Follows

• Responsible for working within the Operations Engineering team providing support to Senior Engineers on projects and tasks within agreed constraints of time, cost and quality.
• Contribute to the development and validations of our production equipment proposing solutions to issues as they arise, implementing and documenting under supervision.
• To ensure that changes are introduced according to the required standards and change control processes.
• All documentation must be completed in compliance with site, Corporate and external regulatory requirements
  
  

One of our current students says “Abbott has provided me with a broad range of opportunities to develop and expand on my engineering skills in my operations engineering role. You will get to work on a wide variety of machines in manufacturing, giving valuable insight into the gold standard of medical device manufacturing. The exposure to the manufacturing aspect of medical devices is invaluable, along with the support and friendship of the amazing Operations Engineering team!”

What are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will be a proactive, well organised individual studying towards an engineering degree (including Biomedical, System engineering, Electrical, Mechanical or similar, Bachelors or Integrated Masters), and bring a passion and interest for delivering on engineering projects in a fast paced and automated manufacturing environment. This role would suit a person with good communication skills who enjoys working on a variety of different projects simultaneously.

To be successful in this role, you will be able to work independently, as well as part of a team, and enjoy problem solving through collaboration.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate around STEM, and keen to pursue their career in the Medical Devices sector. You should be excited about working in a fast-paced environment within a hard-working and welcoming team.

Career growth and future opportunities are pillars of our program. Students who continuously excel in our early career programs are encouraged to apply for Abbott’s Professional Development Programs or other full-time positions.

To Apply

To apply, submit your CV (including grades) and cover letter.

  

The closing date is 13th January and interviews will be conducted in late-January 2025.

 

By submitting your application, you consent for your details to be shared with Randstad, our Third-Party Labour supplier, who are working on behalf of Abbott on this position.

 

For University courses requiring submissions, for example reports, the intent of NDA agreement with yourselves and your universities will be sought before interview, please discuss this with your supervisors before submitting your application.

Our Diabetes Care Business

With a track record of innovation and development, Abbott’s Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures leading-edge glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and professional healthcare settings. We have a Global Centre of Excellence for Medical Devices based in Witney, Oxfordshire. The site has been instrumental in the research, development and manufacture of the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System as well as exciting developments in the Libre family including FreeStyle Libre 2, FreeStyle Libre 3 and the Libre Sense system. We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people’s lives.

At our Centre of Excellence site in Witney we also support our employees to live life to the fullest – whether it’s joining our Schools program, or supporting Wellness, Charity or STEM teams, there is plenty going for you to engage with as and when you wish.

Abbott is proud to see a number of our students return to us for permanent roles post-graduation, and our internship opportunities are a stepping-stone to a longer-term career with us. To be eligible therefore to apply, it is a requirement that candidates can demonstrate the assured on-going right to work, without the need for sponsorship now or in the future, thus must be already eligible to work in the UK, or able to apply for a visa granting permission to work in the UK (e.g. dependent visas, ancestry etc.) that do not require future sponsorship.

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