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Serving at UCLA Health will give you the opportunity to use your specialized abilities to help improve the lives of our patients, their families, and your fellow UCLA Health team members. You’ll provide critical support that makes healing happen. We’d love to have you join us.
Responsible for approximately 770 workload units of general and various types of medical/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 care equipment. The maintenance of these devices includes troubleshooting to component level and routine periodic inspections. Complete acceptance inspections on new equipment and provide technical support to the Nursing staff and equipment operators. Follow the departmental and Medical Center policies and procedures. Assignment areas include Critical Care and Intensive Care units. Conduct pre-purchase evaluations and installations of medical equipment. Provide on-call coverage. Prioritize and delegate the non assigned service calls for the department’s technical staff. Assist other technicians with complex repairs. Process the distribution/collection of hazard/recall notifications and the corresponding responses/reports amongst technicians. Prepares and distributes related follow up reports to management and other departments. Perform other related duties as required.
Salary Range: $54.68 – $72.11 / hour
- Minimum 4 years experience as BMET III or 14 years total biomedical experience.
- AAMI Certification.
- Skills in the use and operation of various electronic test equipment including analog and digital electrical safety test analyzers, analog and 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 medical technology test equipment including ECG (electrocardiograph), respiration, temperature simulators, line isolation monitor testers, infusion pump analyzers, defibrillator, and electrosurgical unit tester.
- Ability to use hand tools.
- Skills in soldering/desoldering techniques.
- Ability to read, interpret and analyze electrical schematics, block diagrams and test procedures for a multitude of patient care/ medical equipment.
- Knowledge of analog and digital electronic circuitry’s digital pressure tester.
- Ability to complete various types of technical reports in clear 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 and reporting.
- 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 cooperative and professional working relationships with other members of this department, Nursing and other staff of the hospital at different levels.
- Knowledge of Critical Care environments and ability to provide immediate response to various types of service requests from Critical Care areas and Intensive Care Units.
- Skills and knowledge to conduct effective telephone troubleshooting.
- Ability to provide immediate telephone response to emergency after-hours service calls and prompt on-site response as required while on-call status.
- Skills in prioritization and coordination of unassigned service calls in absence of a Supervisor.
- Skills in mentoring other Biomedical Equipment Technicians.
- Ability to coordinate and manage projects.
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