Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Cedars-Sinai’s Clinical Engineering department manages, maintains, and integrates medical technology across the health system. Key functions include device lifecycle support, preventive maintenance, and regulatory compliance.

The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed “CHIME Digital Health Most Wired“ recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10—the most prestigious level of certification—among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

Why work here?

Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing in this role:

The Senior BMET (Biomedical Equipment Technician) performs complex level troubleshooting, repair, and periodic maintenance of medical instrumentation and clinical networked systems; demonstrates the use of medical equipment systems to Clinical Engineering staff and clinicians; acts as a technical resource for the evaluation and interfacing of medical equipment systems; assists staff members in troubleshooting situations; serves in on-call rotation.

• Adjusts, calibrates, lubricates, performs operational verification, tests electrical safety, and other tasks to ensure efficient performance and safety of complex medical equipment.
• Maintains an accurate and complete inventory of medical devices and systems in assigned areas.
• Communicates clearly with users in patient care areas during rounds or while investigating reported malfunctions; provides impromptu technical in-services to clinical staff when needed.
• Participates in pre-purchase of equipment and technology evaluations, and provides recommendations on equipment replacement.
• Analyzes serviceability, reliability, and technical aspects of equipment.
• Makes recommendations for maintenance and training protocols.
• Using engineering methodology, transfers working knowledge and understanding of electronic circuitry and medical applications from one type of instrumentation to another.
• Schedules and documents work performed as directed by the department.
• Reviews and/or orders parts and materials so as to insure right items are ordered at right time from the most effective source and that prudent stock levels are maintained.
• Helps with reviewing service options for major clinical systems with system owners to determine optimum service plan (i.e., in-house, vendor contract, vendor time and materials).

Note: this is a 10-Hour Evening Shift (1pm - 1130pm), 4-days week and will require on-call rotation

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

Four (4) plus year experience as biomedical electronics technician and familiarity with a limited but growing range of patient care and/or laboratory equipment, 5+ years experience preferred.

Knowledge of wired and wireless networks related to the medical devices.

Demonstrates the ability to understand and use basic biomedical test equipment.

Demonstrates a basic level of electronics knowledge and troubleshooting skills.

Demonstrates an understanding of the operation and service routines for basic clinical electronic equipment.

Educational/Certification Requirements:

High School Diploma/GED Required.

Biomedical Technology Diploma from accredited program required and/or Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering preferred.

C.B.E.T. Certification and/or specialty biomedical skill such as Imaging or Anesthesia equipment preferred.

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