Biomedical Equipment Technician III
About the role
Provides advanced levels of equipment and/or departmental service and support. Performs preventive maintenance, quality assurance inspections, installation, testing, calibration, troubleshooting, repair, and general maintenance on biomedical, clinical data/network systems, and related technologies.
Responsibilities
- Complete the preventive maintenance (PM) workload to achieve a consistently high level of PM compliance over time.
- Review, modify, develop, and implement written preventive maintenance manuals and quality assurance testing procedures for medical equipment.
- Review incident reports related to equipment malfunction or misuse and take appropriate actions to ensure patient safety.
- Lead new equipment evaluations, acquisitions, and installations.
- Obtain quotes through current requisition processes and work with technical specifications related to bids and capital purchases.
- Exercise proper judgment in evaluating the extent/source of repairs on malfunctioning equipment and determine cost‑effective actions to maximize equipment uptime.
- Seek out best‑value products, labor, and parts sources to minimize total cost of service to the organization.
- Provide in‑service training to other clinical engineering service technicians.
- Lead continuous performance improvement initiatives related to medical equipment use.
- Prioritize scheduled maintenance in accordance with medical equipment maintenance management policy.
- Respond to requests for maintenance services from equipment users; perform initial assessment, problem verification, and troubleshooting.
- Review FDA, ECRI, manufacturer, and other device recall and problem notification sources to verify if covered equipment falls within problem equipment listings.
- Periodically conform to a flexible work schedule on an as‑needed basis.
- Participate in on‑call rotation and upgrade support.
Schedule
Work Shift: Workday Day (United States of America). Flexible as‑needed schedule and on‑call rotation.
Location
Thomas Jefferson University, 1200 Old York Road, Abington, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
About Jefferson Health
Nationally ranked Jefferson, principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson employs more than 65,000 people and provides high‑quality, compassionate clinical care, education, and research through its hospitals, campuses, and outpatient locations.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive benefits package for full‑time and part‑time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, and voluntary benefits that provide group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full‑time service or two years of part‑time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part‑time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.