Job Description
LOCATION: Benin City, Warri
Job Summary
The Biomedical Engineer will design, develop, and test all aspects of medical/surgical components, equipment, and instruments.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Diagnose defective medical equipment and implement repairs without direct supervision.
- Keep accurate records of all maintenance activities performed on assigned medical equipment and update the database of this record of service, completely and promptly.
- Perform and record preventive maintenance of assigned equipment through periodic performance checks and measurements based on Equipment Management Plan.
- Have a working knowledge of all applicable codes and standards for maintaining medical equipment including those issued by accrediting agencies.
- Maintain technical skills and be aware of emerging trends in Healthcare Technology Management.
- Operate sophisticated calibration and test equipment.
- Repair/calibrate life support and other critical medical equipment and systems.
- Ensure urgent device corrections, and equipment recalls are acted upon in a timely manner to ensure safety of patients, visitors, and staff.
- Maintain and configure servers and associated network equipment.
- Provide guidance to clinical users on proper use and care for diagnostic, treatment and monitoring equipment.
- Demonstrate correct setup, calibration, and operation of patient care equipment to clinical staff as required.
Requirements
- B.Sc or HND in Biomedical Engineering/Technology.
- 4 + years of relevant work experience.
- Registered member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria – COREN
- Remarkable understanding of the framework as well as the use of biomedical devices.
- Strong technological abilities as well as the capacity to fix equipment.
- Strong logical as well as analytical abilities.
- Strong communication abilities
- Capability to function well under pressure as well as grow in a busy clinical atmosphere.
- Efficiency in using a computer system, specifically Microsoft workplace Plans.
- Knowledge of hospital equipment is an advantage