BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN (BMET)

Summary

Installs, inspects, repairs, calibrates, and modifies biomedical equipment and support systems. Advises staff and other agencies on operation theory, underlying physiological principles, and safe clinical application of biomedical equipment. Provides technology management and equipment repair/calibration support for the medical treatment facility. The position assesses and evaluates the condition of in-use medical equipment for maintenance, upgrade, or replace recommendations.

Requirements

• Mandatory knowledge and skills: Effective communication, establishing and maintaining effective working relationships, ability to apply specialized methods, principles, and techniques of electronics and complex medical system failures, recovery of systems, adjusting, modifying, and improving systems to include hardware and software components, knowledge of electronic principles and practices, interpreting technical data, analyzing problems in integrated/interfacing systems involving numerous complex circuits, using complex electronic and electromechanical test and measuring equipment using integrated test functions for different purposes, ability to maintain, repair, and test biomedical equipment in accordance with strict OEM technical compliance, ability to solve technical and performance problems for highly complex electronic systems, ability to trace electronics logic from one system to another, ability to use standard computers and software to enter and extract data to maintain records and document actions.
• Education: An associate degree in biomedical equipment technology or engineering required.
• Experience: At least two years of biomedical equipment technician experience is required.
• Work Environment/Physical Requirements: Work will be accomplished in various departments of the medical treatment facility or logical extension of the facility (i.e., satellite clinic, health and wellness centers). Work areas may include isolated wards and in contaminated areas where personal protected equipment is required. Occasionally work on live electrical wires, switches and transformers of various voltage levels, exposing the worker to the possibility of shock, cuts, bruises, scrapes and serious burns. Exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation is possible, the contractor shall use appropriate safety procedures and devices as required by the Government. Physical Requirements: The nature of the work requires moderate physical effort. The biomedicalequipment technician frequently is required to lift, carry or otherwise, handle, items weighing up to 18kilograms (40 pounds) with occasional encounters involving items greater than 18 kilograms. Frequent standing, walking, bending, crouching, reaching, stooping and working in cramped and awkward positions for prolonged periods is required. In addition to health requirements in the contract, the individual must pass color vision test. Per the main contract, health requirement expenses will not be covered by the Government.