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Kaiser Permanente · 2 days ago

Automation Engineer III - Southern California

Downey, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

4+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is a leading healthcare organization, and they are seeking an Automation Engineer III. The role involves enacting healthcare technology strategies, consulting on clinical systems, and ensuring compliance with regulations while managing technology plans across multiple care delivery settings.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome

Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team

Contributes to clinical systems by: consulting with user groups and strategic partners to develop equipment configurations, review facility construction plans and equipment lists, and provide technical or environment requirements for deployment for moderately complex projects for multiple service areas; and collaborating within a team and providing technical expertise and information support on incident investigations and equipment performance analysis to determine root causes of issues and recommend solutions

Acts in compliance with enterprise requirements by: supporting senior team members and operational leaders to ensure systems and processes are used and maintained in a manner that ensure compliance with all relevant government regulations, accreditation, and industry standards; and assisting with the review of FDA and nonregulatory Hazard Alerts to understand the appropriate level of response in collaboration with the National Product Recall Management team

Provides technical expertise for clinical systems by: troubleshooting and testing on several clinical systems and associated equipment and technology; identifying, monitoring, and recommending solutions to clinical systems and healthcare technology issues that present a risk to the enterprise; recording and maintaining documentation for design specifications, testing, and validating of new and innovative technology to be incorporated into the market in alignment with standards and requirements; providing technical expertise and consult for operational impacts of existing and new systems and technologies, and working within established timeframes; and monitoring cyber security trends independently in healthcare and ensure implementation in accordance with industry and company standards for healthcare technology

Enacts strategies for clinical systems by: performing healthcare technology assessments, needs analysis, and site planning to identify appropriate and relevant healthcare technologies that can be effectively implemented; working with the team to implement systems that support networking, integration, and interoperability of healthcare technologies within multiple care delivery settings; conducting cost-benefit analyses and providing recommendations independently; and leading the development and production of healthcare technology strategic plans and forecasts, procurement programs and service contracts for multiple care delivery settings

Contributes to innovative planning related to healthcare technologies by: monitoring and assessing new health care related technologies, strategies, and concepts and disseminating this information as appropriate within the team; and conducting research to stay abreast of cutting-edge technology and products (e.g., attending conferences or tradeshows, vendor product events)

Develops, analyzes, and manages technology plans by: ensuring strategy and scope identification, managing schedules, evaluating inter-dependencies, and resource forecasts; and monitoring performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan and provides input and justification for costs and budget impact

Qualification

Healthcare Technology ExpertiseClinical Systems TestingProject ManagementCompliance ManagementCommunicationProblem SolvingTeamworkCritical ThinkingDecision Making

Required

Bachelors degree in engineering (Biomedical, Clinical, Mechanical, Electrical), engineering technology, or related field AND minimum one (1) year of experience in engineering or a directly related field OR Minimum four (4) years of experience in engineering, engineering technology, or a directly related field

Preferred

One (1) year of experience in project management

One (1) year of experience managing operational or project budgets

One (1) year of experience in health care

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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