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COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-uhp-hourly
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
- Specifies, evaluates, installs, troubleshoots, repairs, calibrates, and maintains a wide variety of equipment and instrumentation
- Service responsibilities include repairing, testing, and calibrating medical devices that are used in life support situations such as ventilators and defibrillators
- Conducts performance assurance testing
- Researches and locates parts for repairs; maintains parts inventory
- May fabricate, modify, and repair experimental equipment to meet design requirements
- May provide in-service education to hospital personnel on operation of equipment and safety issues; may train clinical engineering interns and biomedical engineering students
- Documents all repairs and performance assurance testing
- Assists in equipment evaluations and incident investigations
- May install or oversee installation of new equipment
- Develops performance assurance inspection procedures
- May evaluate new procedures/equipment
- Maintains preventive maintenance records
- Troubleshoots equipment problems that are related to patient/device interfaces such as transducers, leads, probes and electrodes
- Performs related duties as required
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of standard laboratory practices, scientific terminology, and equipment
- Knowledge of the basic principles of electronics and mechanics as it applies to testing, repair, and maintenance of laboratory instrumentation
- Interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Some computer skills
- Some ability to fabricate experimental apparatus or modify existing equipment to need
- Ability to use a variety of hand and power tools
- Ability to work independently
- Must be knowledgeable and have experience using a variety of calibration and test equipment for medical devices
- Knowledge of current codes and standards pertaining to the safe use of medical devices in a hospital setting including medical gases and other utilities
- Ability to interact with clinical personnel in troubleshooting equipment problems
- Knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, and medical application devices critical to resolving problems
- Three (3) years of experience in the maintenance, testing and repair of clinical instrumentation and medical electronics equipment in a hospital setting
- College training in biomedical equipment technology, electronics or a closely related field may substitute for the general experience based on fifteen (15) semester hours equaling six (6) months of experience up to a maximum of three (3) years.
SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday- Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., on call rotations, weekends, holidays, and other shifts as assigned to accommodate departmental needs, 30 minute unpaid meal break.
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
