Clinical Engineer

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

General Summary

Under limited supervision, provide professional planning services for utilization assessments, programming, acquisition, installation, maintenance and replacement of major medical technology systems and components.  Develop and implement medical technology master plans, including budget programs, feasibility studies, and project cost/schedule estimates for new technologies, replacement planning, renovation and new construction, and computerized clinical applications.  Develop and implement custom medical technology solutions.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

1. 1. Priority Setting and Decision Management.  Responsible for forecasting, programming, and planning of major medical technology capital requirements for the University of Maryland Medical Center.
      1. Initiates and participates in meetings with executive management, clinical chiefs, physicians, department administrators and various departments/hospital staff to compile data for medical technology requirements.  Develop and implement complex communication and fact-finding techniques to maximize clinician input and asset utilization while minimizing associated time and monetary commitments of the hospital.
      2. Develops programmatic, multi-year technology requirements plans based upon clinical utilization, operational requirements and data (e.g., staffing needs, projected volumes, length and types of visits, maintenance, availability, reliability, etc.).
      3. Facilitates priority setting and programming (sources and uses), and documents requirements in multi-year technology plans.
   2. Project Planning. In concert with other disciplines develop detailed conceptual and feasibility studies for specific medical technology initiatives, including new and replacement equipment, medical equipment for construction projects, and computerized clinical applications.  Provide project management leadership to determine the viability, costs, benefits and timeline of projects, including:
      1. Determine at the conceptual and schematic levels the scope of projects, including required space, equipment, renovations, and required start and completion dates.  Identify new technology and installation alternatives.
      2. Prepare comprehensive conceptual project cost estimates including direct and indirect equipment, construction costs and relocation costs.  Requires coordination (and at times direct and indirect oversight) with other planning functions within UMMC, e.g., space planning, information technology, building systems, etc.
      3. Develops preliminary project schedules.  Develops and administers capital budgets for capital equipment projects, working with Facilities, ITG and other departments as needed.   Develops controls and initiatives that ensure cost effective management to budget.  Develops and maintains project expense reporting systems which accurately reflect anticipated expenditures and variances.
      4. Propose temporary and permanent installations and relocations, addressing the advantages and disadvantages of alternative solutions.
      5. Develop and present concise and comprehensive studies and recommendations to UMMC leadership.
   3. Planning Coordination.  Perform planning in coordination with clinical leadership and all UMMC planning functions, including strategic, clinical, space, infrastructure/building systems, telecommunications, information technology, purchasing, finance, and medical equipment replacement planning.  Coordinate planning with key decision management committees.