Head Engineer (Re Advertisement) at M.P. Shah Hospital

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the overall purpose is to manage healthcare technologies to facilitate safe, effective, timely, patient-centered, efficient, and equitable delivery of care.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support for clinical equipment throughout the hospital including scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, maintaining part inventories, performing rounds in customer areas, participating in on-call rotation
• Act as a Trust expert for medical device issues including those related to regulation and risk by providing expert advice on all aspects of medical device management and development, including procurement, modification, use, and servicing
• Participate in the development of department and system-wide quality assurance indices or continuous quality improvement initiatives related to the proper use or maintenance and repair of patient care equipment
• Develop or review emergency and safety plans related to the use and operation of critical patient care equipment by reviewing patient care equipment safety alerts and recall notices and taking appropriate actions to ensure the affected equipment is tested or removed from service, where appropriate
• Develop preventive maintenance schedules and guidelines, train all technical staff on proper testing and other procedures to be followed when performing scheduled maintenance on devices maintained by the department
• Coordinate and/or participate in requests for special projects such as new equipment acquisition, purchase planning, development of bid specifications, analysis of vendor proposal, installation planning, acceptance testing, renovations, equipment upgrades, and equipment disposal
• Develop patient care equipment safety and device-specific programs for presentation to clinical staff throughout the hospital and develop evaluation criteria to compare patient equipment and devices under consideration for purchase
• Provides budgetary stewardship and oversight that includes contracts, consultants, procurement, and related processes by preparing and managing yearly budgets for the department to include recommendations for medical equipment replacement priorities
• Determine the training needs for staff technicians and engineers and recommend/ implement arrangements as needed to obtain the necessary training, test equipment, and tools needed to expand the areas of technical services provided by the department

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor of Electrical, Clinical, and Biomedical Engineering
• Master of Biomedical Engineering degree in any medical field from a recognized institution
• Minimum of 8 years working experience with 3 years at senior management level in the health care sector.