Biomedical Equipment Technician II

Responsibilities

• Undergoes troubleshooting, repair, maintenance, and calibration of various clinical, laboratory, and medical research equipment.
• Performs preventative maintenance tasks such as cleaning, lubricating, adjusting, calibrating, and verifying performance and electrical safety testing.
• Documents equipment inspections, repairs, and failures in a database.
• Communicates with faculty, staff, healthcare providers, laboratory staff, vendors, and management to resolve equipment issues.
• Drives Fred Hutch-owned vehicles to service equipment at community sites.
• Evaluates and approves devices for use on human subjects.
• Reviews outcomes of preventive maintenance actions and makes recommendations for process or procedure improvements.
• Assesses malfunctioning patient care life support equipment.
• Investigates unusual incidents involving medical equipment and prepares reports and documentation.
• Mentors other technicians.

Requirements

• Associates' Degree in Biomedical Technology -OR- Equivalent education and experience -OR- A candidate certified by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
• Three years of relevant experience maintaining and repairing biomedical equipment.
• Basic troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of specialized test equipment such as electrical safety analyzers, patient simulators, and device-specific test instruments.
• Ability to use basic hand and power tools.
• Telephone operation and courtesy skills.
• Customer service skills.

Qualifications

• Preferred: Associates' Degree in Biomedical Technology.
• Preferred: Three years of experience in a hospital or outpatient clinical engineering environment.
• Preferred: Knowledge of software applications including manufacturer's service tools, computerized maintenance management systems, databases, dashboards, spreadsheets, and other metrics-based monitoring systems including asset management systems.

Benefits

• Medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts.
• Life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic.
• Tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).