What are the responsibilities and job description for the Future Opening: Biomedical Service Technician position at Minnesota Medical Specialists?
Summary: Biomedical service technicians install, service, maintain and repair biomedical systems and equipment. Emphasis on deployable medical equipment, i.e., laboratory, clinical, dental, therapeutic, pneumatic, hydraulic, general, surgical, diagnostic and treatment equipment at the module or circuit board level. Technicians maintain, repair and install equipment of the following types: mechanical, electrical, diagnostic, controlling, monitoring and recording.
Duties & Requirements:
Duties & Requirements:
- Assemble, maintain, troubleshoot, align, and calibrate medical equipment.
- Able to work with steam & water systems, soldering, plumbing, and welding.
- Able to read circuit diagrams and wiring schematics, working knowledge of electrical systems.
- Supervise and conduct preventive maintenance programs.
- Manage repair parts, maintain inventories, order replacement parts and equipment.
- Render technical advice and assistance as required.
- Provide customers and end users with product and technical support.
- Provide technical service/mechanical troubleshooting of equipment.
- Accurately document work conducted, and log times and materials for services.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- Must be able to work with and communicate with technical experts, healthcare professionals/managers, and OEM representatives.
- Must be willing to travel to perform on-site repairs, occasional overnight/multiday visits possible.
- Must be self-directed and able to exercise sound judgment and problem solving with minimal guidance, oversight or direct management. Able to promptly respond to customer inquiries and needs, both on-the-job and remotely.
- Communicates with customers to help them understand how to use, maintain and troubleshoot their products and devices properly. Completes, maintains, and processes pertinent paperwork and records.
- Solve problems, document procedures and formulate repair plans and maintenance strategies.
- Operate, control and maintain various biomedical test and calibration equipment.
Education and Experience: Certificate(s) from trade/technical school or similar programs (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, biomedical, etc.). 3-4 years of work experience in biomedical/home health care/clinical/laboratory/dental technical fields preferred. CBET, CABT, CISS-MH and/or any other biomedical device repair and service certifications preferred.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Current drivers license valid for the state of residence is required. CBET, CABT, CISS-MH and/or any other biomedical device repair and service certifications preferred.
Specific Work-in-Focus Concentrations: Any experience servicing, repairing, maintaining, installing or otherwise performing work on industrial grade steam sterilization or bulk washer systems is preferred.
Additional Expectations & Factors:
Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Current drivers license valid for the state of residence is required. CBET, CABT, CISS-MH and/or any other biomedical device repair and service certifications preferred.
Specific Work-in-Focus Concentrations: Any experience servicing, repairing, maintaining, installing or otherwise performing work on industrial grade steam sterilization or bulk washer systems is preferred.
Additional Expectations & Factors:
- Initial on-the-job training period of no less than 6 weeks to be provided by the hiring company. Employees will be fully salaried during this training period.
- Company will provide computer and field service tablet for remote work.
- Company will provide monthly stiped to offset cell phone bill for work-related calls.
- Company will provide a full set of necessary tools and equipment.
- Company will provide job-by-job mileage payments for use of personally owned vehicle.
- Company paid training opportunities, certification classes, testing and recertification dues.
Compensation: $65,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
About Minnesota Medical
For over 30 years Minnesota Medical has built an unsurpassed reputation of highly affordable, fast and friendly service. From routine maintenance and sales, to high tech calibrations and free safety inspections, our experienced service technicians will diagnose your problem quickly—over the phone, in the field or at our drop-off location—to get you back up and running as soon as possible.
Small Business, Big Goals
Incorporated in 1991 with the focus and intent of servicing tabletop autoclaves and other small-scale clinical devices, Minnesota Medical Specialists, Inc. quickly branched out into servicing a litany of other biomedical devices and products throughout late 1990s and early 2000s. Soon enough, what began as a two-technician operation servicing a limited scope of devices in the Twin Cities metro-area of Minnesota, grew into over a dozen employees providing services and equipment sales to thousands of customers comprising a huge array of device types and brands across the upper Midwestern United States.
Throughout the 2010s, Minnesota Medical Specialists continued to add on more customers, equipment, service regions, and other businesses. In 2017-2018, MN MED started up its biomedical refrigeration service arm, Minnesota Medical Refrigeration (formerly known as Harasyn’s Refrigeration Service, Inc.), and began providing maintenance and repair services for biomedical, pharmaceutical and laboratory refrigeration devices. Today, Minnesota Medical Refrigeration specializes in the repair, maintenance, and rebuilding of ultra-low freezers, vaccine storage units, environmental chambers, incubators, and freeze-dryers. Our on-site repair facility allows customers to ship and courier their devices straight to us.
Additionally in the mid 2010s, Minnesota Medical Specialists began its first service contracts in the realm of bulk sterilization and large scale autoclaves. MN MED now manages the service and maintenance of over 100 of these devices across the upper Midwest, with customers ranging from large public universities and massive research and development plants to small, private pharmaceutical start up enterprises. Since making the leap to bulk sterilizer service, Minnesota Medical has also branched out to servicing other large sterile-processing devices, such as biomedical glassware, cage and rack washers.
In 2020, Minnesota Medical Specialists began providing services in the Kansas City metro area by way of its inaugural remote technician branch. Finally in 2021, Minnesota Medical brought on additional clinical and biomedical service business growth through the acquisition of long-time upper Midwest therapeutic and dental clinic imaging service provider Pro Select Services, Inc.
Salary : $65,000 - $80,000