Biomed Equipment Tech III - Maimonides Medical Center : Job Details

About Us We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clincal progams rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Overview Performs repairs and preventive maintenance on biomedical electronic equipment. Responsibilities

• Services and repairs biomedical equipment (e.g., breast pumps, slit lights, high intensity exam lights, cast cutters, respirators, sphygmomanometers) and electronic equipment (e.g., temporary pacemaker units, controllers, IV pumps, electronic thermometers, etc.); notifies manufacturer if repair cannot be made and reports unusual problems to Associate Director of Biomed.
• Uses available test equipment to test functioning of medical equipment.
• Responds to repair and service calls at equipment location; services equipment on site if possible, removes equipment to the Biomedical shop for servicing/repair if necessary.
• Carries out regularly scheduled preventive maintenance work on all equipment for which technician is responsible according to schedule and in compliance with departmental policies and procedures for such work; documents preventive maintenance data as required by departmental policies and procedures.
• Assists in monitoring parts inventory levels by recording parts used for the equipment being serviced; notifies supervisor when stock of spare parts is approaching minimum levels.
• Recommends purchase of biomedical equipment.
• Maintains department records, reports, and files as required, including maintaining accurate records of inventory, repairs, equipment down time.
• Repairs non-biomedical equipment or systems as assigned.
• Instructs hospital personnel as to proper use and safe handling of equipment.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.

QualificationsEducation: Associate's degree in Electronics preferred. Bachelor's degree with credits in Biomedical Engineering preferred. Experience: 5 years of experience in Biomedical Electronics service as a technician or field engineer required. Skills: Mechanical and troubleshooting skills. Good oral and written communication skills. Good interpersonal skills. Speaks, reads and writes English to the extent required by the position. Pay Range USD $43.45 - USD $45.36 /Hr. Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer . All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.