Biomedical Equipment Technician III

Summary Job Description

Job Title: Biomedical Equipment Technician III FULL TIME - DAYS (1ST SHIFT) Job Summary: Under general supervision, the Biomedical Equipment Technician installs, tests, repairs, maintains, and calibrates clinical medical devices. Follows established policies and procedures and according to manufacturer guidelines and recommendations. The Biomedical Equipment Technician ensures adherence to hospital and departmental policies and regulatory standards and guidelines. Demonstrates commitment to the quality, philosophy, and values of Baptist Health by maintaining established policies and procedures, organizational objectives, process improvement, and safety standards. Demonstrates the Baptist Health standards in all interpersonal relations.

Job Description (General duties/responsibilities, but not limited to)

• Perform scheduled preventative maintenance on hospital equipment through work orders daily.
• Demonstrates knowledge of safe and approved troubleshooting techniques on medical devices.
• Reads schematics and service manuals, consults with vendors and service representatives to assist in troubleshooting.
• Utilizes basic test equipment and completes repairs in a time and cost-effective manner with patient safety as the primary concern.
• Assemble, install, and set up limited range of hospital equipment.
• Perform the initial acceptance of the new equipment and add assets into database.
• Performs PM interval for equipment and conducts electrical safety and basic performance check.
• Mentoring BMET I and BMET II.
• Files copy of purchase order and vendor information and length of warranty for reference.
• Order necessary parts and maintain required par levels.

Requirements

• Associates of Applied Science Degree in Electronic Engineering / Biomedical (BMET) / Information Technology.
• 8 years biomedical experience in lieu of Associate Degree Military Electronics / Military Biomedical Experience in lieu of Associate Degree Bachelors in Engineering can be substituted for 5 years work experience
• Masters Engineering Degree can be substituted for 6 years work experience

Benefits

• Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
• 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

About Baptist Health

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 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 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 two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 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 more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Accessibility

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call View phone number on click.appcast.io. For TDD to voice, call View phone number on click.appcast.io.