Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
New York, New York
Braselton, Georgia
Los Angeles, California
Charleston, South Carolina, South Carolina
Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Posted: 09-Aug-24
Location: Los Angeles, California
Salary: Open
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Internal Number: 141102108
Serving at UCLAHealth will give you the opportunity to use your specialized abilities to helpimprove the lives of our patients, their families, and your fellow UCLA Healthteam members. You'll provide critical support that makes healing happen. We'dlove to have you join us.
In this position you will be responsible forapproximately 1100 workload units of general and various types ofmedical/patient care equipment. This includes monitoring, diagnostic,therapeutic and life saving/support devices. Repair, service, calibrate,install and perform preventive maintenance on a wide variety of patient careequipment. The maintenance of these devices includes troubleshooting tocomponent level and routine periodic inspections. Complete acceptanceinspections on new equipment and provide technical support to the Nursing staffand equipment operators. Follow the departmental and Medical Centerpolicies and procedures. Assignment areas include Critical Care andIntensive Care units. Conduct pre-purchase evaluations and installationsof medical equipment. Perform other related duties as required. Provideon-call coverage.
Salary Range: $50.06 - $66.05 / hour
- Minimum 4 years experienceas BMET II or 9 years total Biomedical experience
- Skills in the use and operation of various electronic testequipment including analog and digital electrical safety test analyzers, analogand digital voltmeters, function generators, power supplies, oscilloscopes,various pressure and vacuum gauges, polarity and tension testers.
- Skills in the use and operation of various types of medicaltechnology test equipment including ECG (electrocardiograph), respiration,temperature simulators, line isolation monitor testers, infusion pumpanalyzers, defibrillator, and electrosurgical unit tester.
- Ability to use hand tools.
- Skills in soldering/desoldering techniques.
- Ability to read, interpret and analyze electricalschematics, block diagrams and test procedures for a multitude of patient care/medical equipment.
- Knowledge of analog and digital electronic circuitry'sdigital pressure tester.
- Ability to complete various types of technical reports inclear writing.
- Basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.
- Knowledge and ability to operate P.C. (personal computers)to open and close work orders and complete technical documentation andreporting.
- Skills in oral communications with medical/ nursing staff,various levels of hospital personnel and vendors.
- Skills in efficient troubleshooting techniques.
- Skills and ability to establish and maintain cooperativeand professional working relationships with other members of this department,Nursing and other staff of the hospital at different levels.
- Conducts incident evaluations on medical devices involvedin events.
- Knowledge of Critical Care environments and ability toprovide immediate response to various types of service requests from CriticalCare areas and Intensive Care Units.
- Skills and knowledge to conduct effective telephonetroubleshooting.
- Ability to provide immediate telephone response toemergency after-hours service calls and prompt on-site response as requiredwhile on-call status.
- Specialist in at least one of the following equipmenttypes: anesthesia, clinical laboratory,ECMO, ICU, perfusion, ventilator, x-ray.
Preferred
- AAMI Certification
