What are the responsibilities and job description for the Biomedical Engineer position at Kaiser Permanente?
Job Summary:
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.
Qualifications:
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)
License, Certification, Registration
- Driver's License (California)
Additional Requirements:
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Associates degree or equivalent in electronics, physics or related science degree preferred.
Salary : $74