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Operations Systems Engineer, Blood Operations, Hoxworth Blood Center

Cincinnati, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Feb 2025

About the role

Current UC employees must apply internally via SuccessFactors

Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to 53,235 students, more than 11,000 faculty and staff and 350,000+ living alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious campus design program in the country.”

With the launch of Next Lives Here, the Cincinnati Innovation District, a $100 million JobsOhio investment, three straight years of record enrollment, worldwide leadership in cooperative education, a dynamic academic health center and entry into the Big 12 Conference, UC’s momentum has never been stronger. UC’s annual budget stands at $1.85 billion, and its endowment totals nearly $1.8 billion.

Job Overview

Hoxworth Blood Center (HBC) was founded in 1938 and serves more than 30 hospitals in 18 counties in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana. Annually, HBC collects more than 100,000 units of blood from local donors to help save the lives of patients in area hospitals. HBC is located within the University of Cincinnati (UC), College of Medicine (COM). UC COM has a reputation for training best-in-class health care professionals and developing cutting-edge procedures and research that improves the health and clinical care of patients. In partnership with the UC Health academic healthcare system and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, UC COM's faculty and staff are transforming the world of medicine every day.

Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati, is seeking a full-time Operations Systems Engineer, to manage, maintain and operate all systems and support related blood operations.

Saving lives is no easy task, but at Hoxworth Blood Center, it's what we do every day and we're looking for positive, professional individuals to join our team and help advance our lifesaving mission. If you're a detail-oriented individual with a passion for making a difference in the lives of others, then we invite you to apply for a position at Hoxworth Blood Center.

Essential Functions

Ensure all donor services systems are properly installed, tested and ensure their availability, integrity and reliability. Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve system hardware and software issues.
Develop and maintain system-specific standard operating procedures and policies for donor services and interdepartmental end-users.
Assist in the development and implementation of plans for new donor services’ systems and peripheral devices.
Assist in evaluating hardware and software; assess the impact of new software on existing systems and users and develop modification plans as needed. Recommend hardware and software procurement.
Plan and implement upgrades and modifications to system configurations to improve utilization based on analysis of application and production requirements.
Collaborate with the end-user community to assess, correct, manage and understand data access and integration needs.
Act as a liaison between Hoxworth staff, field management, quality assurance, IT and medical direction to provide continual process improvement of donor services systems and content.
Analyze release notes for system upgrades, write validation plans and test scripts for upgrades and perform validation testing.
Identify and implement changes to ensure conformance to requirements established by FDA, AABB, CDC and other regulating bodies.
May provide direct supervision to exempt and non-exempt staff (i.e., hiring/firing, performance evaluations, disciplinary action, approve time off, etc.).
Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.