This role is for an OR equipment handler. Cleans, decontaminates, prepares for use, and provide maintenance and repair for equipment. Ensures that an adequate level of supplies and equipment is available and ready for patient use.
Responsibilities:
Disassembles, cleans, and decontaminates equipment.Reassembles, performs safety check and prepares equipment for use.Performs preventative maintenance on equipment and maintains a maintenance log.Performs diagnostic testing on equipment, including all types of standardized and specialty-use equipment. Assesses function, performs evaluations, and completes repairs.Monitors and maintains the sterilization processes of all reusable equipment.Orders supplies and stocks work areas to ensure adequate levels of supplies are available. Performs weekly inventory and orders supplies from outside vendors.Acts as an educational resource for clinical staff regarding the mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical function of equipment.Participates in the evaluation and ordering of capital equipment for the department.Meets with vendors as needed to evaluate supplies and equipment for purchase.Actively participates in Quality Assurance activities.Performs related duties as required or assigned.
How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
