Summary
Job Description:
BioMed Tech II
Full-Time, Days
Biomedical Engineering
The Biomedical Engineering Department at Baptist Health is dedicated to ensuring the safety, reliability, and optimal performance of all medical equipment used in patient care.
Under direct supervision, the BioMed Tech II installs, test, repairs, maintains, and calibrates clinical medical devices following established policies and procedures and according to manufacturer guidelines and recommendations. The BioMed Tech II ensures adherence to hospital and departmental policies and regulatory standards and guidelines. Demonstrates commitment to the mission, quality, philosophy, and values of the Baptist Health System. Other duties as may be assigned.
Job Description:
- Demonstrates basic knowledge of the medical device preventative maintenance program, including PM work orders generated through the TMS software application.
- Completes Preventative Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance work orders on a daily basis.
- Demonstrates procedure for generating a work order, including retrieving a generated work order via computer or approved mobile device.
- Reviews priority status and obtains necessary materials for completion of work order.
- Communicates with customer or requester work order status and, when completed, notifies customer or requester that the device is ready for use.
- Receives, assembles, installs, and delivers new medical devices to end users.
- Conducts initial performance inspection and validation.
- Verifies that new equipment is ready for input to the CMMS system, has appropriate paperwork, warranty, and purchase order information, and is labeled and tagged with the current PM label per BHS policy.
- Performs initial acceptance of new equipment and adds assets into the database.
- Establishes PM interval for equipment and conducts electrical safety and basic performance checks.
- Files copy of purchase order, vendor information, and length of warranty for reference.
Job Requirements:
- Associates Degree in BioMed ET, IT, EE, ET
- Two Years related experience
- In lieu of degree a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering or Information Technology OR Military Biomedical Experience.
Preferred Requirements:
- AAMI CBET certification, Networking A+, IT Project, Cybersecurity desirable.
Benefits:
- Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
- Retirement with Company Match
Skills Required
- Associate degree in Biomedical Engineering Technology, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, or Engineering Technology
- Two years of related experience
- Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering or Information Technology may substitute for the associate degree
- Military biomedical experience may substitute for the associate degree
- AAMI CBET certification
- Networking A+ certification or knowledge
- IT project experience
- Cybersecurity knowledge or experience
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
