Biomedical Equipment Tech II / Full Time / Days / Biomedical Engineering - Faulkner

Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

 

At Mass General Brigham, we know it takes a surprising range of talented professionals to advance our mission—from doctors, nurses, business people and tech experts, to dedicated researchers and systems analysts. As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community.  We place great value on being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve.

At Mass General Brigham, we believe a diverse set of backgrounds and lived experiences makes us stronger by challenging our assumptions with new perspectives that can drive revolutionary discoveries in medical innovations in research and patient care. Therefore, we invite and welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups in healthcare — people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ community, and/or gender expansive, first and second-generation immigrants, veterans, and people from different socioeconomic backgrounds – to apply.

 

 

Job Summary

General Summary:

Maintains and assists in management of medical equipment by installing, calibrating, repairing and inspecting medical equipment and solving the most complex technical problems in the field. Responsibilities include to perform duties related to system support and maintenance; provides technical support service, repairs and preventive maintenance as necessary to maintain the safe operation of BWH's biomed integrated Systems, and advanced patient care technologies.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Following departmental Medical Equipment Management Plan (MEMP) procedures, inspects newly acquired medical devices and systems for safety and function and attaches and assigns appropriate control numbers and labels to medical devices. Acquires the necessary information for accurate database inventory entry.

Conducts complete performance assurance and electrical safety testing. Performs preventive/scheduled maintenance on medical devices as required. May provide information for the development of testing protocols.

Responds to medical equipment problems in clinical areas or research areas; evaluates, troubleshoots, and solves problems up to and including those requiring rule-based troubleshooting and a moderate level of diagnostic skill and having a moderate to high level of acuity and complexity. Determines the need to remove and/or replace malfunctioning medical devices from service and implements accordingly.

Performs repairs and calibrations with a substantial degree of complexity or requiring expert diagnostic and repair skills.

Participates in installations and updates of medical devices when required, including those requiring software revision. Provides technical feedback for device evaluations.

Makes periodic rounds of assigned clinical areas to assess operation of medical devices. Notes trends and develops and implements solutions, validated by the Team Leader, to address recurring problems.

Instructs clinical, research, and technical staff and other support personnel on the operation, safe use, care and handling, and user maintenance procedures for medical equipment.

Instructs department and other equipment technical staff on testing, calibration, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of medical equipment and basic design and theory of the same. Serve as an informal technical resource to BMETs for difficult tasks.

Using a computer database, sets example in documentation of work performed in terms of quality, thoroughness, accuracy, and timeliness. Documents and maintains accurate and current inventory records of all replacement and repair parts.

Attends and satisfactorily completes training courses on operating, testing, maintaining, and repairing complex medical devices. Disseminates this newly acquired knowledge to team members, department, and clinical users as appropriate. Leverages this knowledge to improve our procedures and systems for managing and maintaining medical equipment.

May inspect the tasks of BMETs and coordinate implementation of projects.

Using data indicators, intuition, and/or other resources, identifies system, safety and quality problems, suggests solutions, and provides information that leads to change in department and on teams.

 Under supervision of an engineer or department leadership, may assist in and/or conduct investigations of clinical incidents involving medical equipment.

May serve on departmental committees.

Performs on-call function (schedule rotation) providing in-house repairs and assistance as needed.

Performs other related duties as required.

Ability to use hand and power tool