Smilow Cancer Hospital ยท 1 month ago
Biomedical Equipment Technician II
New London, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expSmilow Cancer Hospital is part of the Yale New Haven Health System, dedicated to providing high-quality healthcare. The Biomedical Equipment Technician II will perform maintenance, troubleshooting, and training on advanced medical equipment to ensure safety and functionality in clinical settings.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Performs inspection, testing and preventative maintenance according to the Joint Commission, OSHA, other accrediting bodies and departmental standards of all equipment assigned to insure that it functions in a safe and proper manner. For a normal working year the technician will have quantifiable goals to achieve in total number of scheduled maintenance work orders to be completed per year
Works from drawings, technical manuals, and other specifications to troubleshoot and repair medical and related equipment. The work will be measured for efficiency through turnaround time. In the realm of scheduled maintenance all work orders are to be completed within 60 days of assignment
Troubleshoots equipment in a logical sequence which results in the proper identification and correction of malfunctions in a timely manner. Reactive maintenance requires the technician to communicate with all relevant resources for timely repair of equipment, work orders should take no longer than 5 business days to complete and return equipment to service
Serves as a subject matter expert on a few medical technologies for the Clinical Engineering, front line patient care areas and contracting departments. To ensure timeliness of response to customers there will be measurement and scoring of the response timing to service requests assigned to the technician
Responsible for keeping an accurate inventory of equipment and associated modules/probes, parts, test equipment and tools needed for proper maintenance for the fleet of equipment. As equipment is received into the hospital the incoming inspection of the equipment and documentation needs to be completed/in-processed to the inventory system within 48 hours
Works with administrators, associated IT personnel, vendors and others to ensure proper flow of information through the electronic health record
Contributes to the training and on the job training of less experienced personnel in the department
Personal goals and team building success factors will also be part of the performance assessment of the position by the discretion of management
Qualification
Required
Certification and/or proven record of training in the maintenance of technologically advanced medical equipment required
An associate's degree in a technical field through mechanical, electrical, biomedical or other proven comparable education level required
Thorough knowledge of technologically advanced equipment with a minimum of five (5) years experience and proof of cost savings through personal maintenance efforts
OR Thorough knowledge of technologically advanced medical equipment with a minimum of two (2) years experience, bachelor's degree in related field, and proof of cost savings through personal maintenance efforts
Demonstrated capability and success in customer communication
Must be proficient use electronic schematics, blueprints, troubleshooting manuals, and direction provided via phone
Must be available to have flexibility in scheduling based on the needs of the hospital to minimize impact on patient care activities
Knowledge and daily use of safety policies, procedures, personal protective equipment, safety data sheets, and universal precautions
Ability to effectively lead the work of others
Ability to prioritize and handle high pressure situations
Preferred
Bachelor's level degree in electrical, mechanical, or biomedical technical training is preferable
Company
Smilow Cancer Hospital
At Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven, hundreds of specialists are changing the face of cancer treatment.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Jeremy Kortmansky
Associate CMO for Network Medical Services, Chief Network Officer
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