What are the responsibilities and job description for the Biomedical Engineer - Nuclear Medicine position at Kaiser Permanente?
The Biomedical Engineer plans, trains others, and installs, maintains and repairs sophisticated medical equipment and systems utilized in the diagnosis treatment and monitoring of patients.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Working under the supervision of a manager or designee, perform all phases of scheduled and corrective repairs of biomedical equipment and medical systems.
- Perform pre-issue and asset accounting, equipment installation and de-installation of related equipment as needed.
- Performs scheduled and unscheduled inspections, maintenance and electrical safety tests of biomedical equipment where applicable to maintain code compliance.
- Responsible for documenting the results of all inspections, maintenance and tests.
- Must work collaboratively with all other biomedical engineers specialties (Instrumentation, X-Ray, CT/MR, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Nuclear Med, Clinical Laboratory, RT/Anesthesia, Ophthalmology/Lasers, and Clinical Systems Integrations), KPIT, Business Partners, and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) representatives.
- Individual is required to complete applicable documentation of all work performed, in a timely manner.
- Frequent travel will be required for the Shared Services/Support biomed engineers to provide service support.
- Occasional travel will be required for the Stationary Service Area Support biomed engineers to provide service support to other sites.
- All biomed engineers will be required to travel to attend technical training.
- Afterhours work may be required on a scheduled and nonscheduled basis to complete required work.
- Will be assigned to weekday and weekend on-call schedule to perform emergency service.
- Communication devices will be supplied and will need to be kept ON during duty hours.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
Minimum four (4) years experience of formal and/or on the job training.
Must have a formal training from the industry leading OEMs, with minimum of four years of service experience and OJT training for the service/support of Siemens, GE or Philips Gamma Cameras, Spect CT and/or Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems.Education- High School Diploma or General Education Develompment (GED)
- Driver s License (California)
- Must have good driving record.
- Must have experience and working knowledge of the medical equipment and systems in general instrumentation or the specialty area assigned and identified above.
- Must be willing to work extended hours.
- Must be proficient operating PCs with Windows operating systems.
- Associates degree or equivalent in electronics, physics or related science degree preferred.
Primary Location: California-Antioch-Antioch Medical Center
Regular Scheduled Hours: 40
Shift: Day
WorkingDays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Start Time: 07:00 AM
End Time: 03:30 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type:
Employee Status: Regular
Job Level: Entry Level
Job Category: Facilities Services
Public Department Name: Berkeley Biomedical Engineerng - Biomed Eng Utrasound Maint - 0201
Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time
Employee Group: A09|IUOE|Local 39
Posting Salary Low:: 73.98
Posting Salary High:: 73.98