Biomedical Equipment Technician - Michigan Ave

University of California - Los Angeles Health
United States, California, Santa Monica
Nov 18, 2024
Description Serving at UCLA Health will give you the opportunity to use your specialized abilities to help improve the lives of our patients, their families, and your fellow UCLA Health team members. You'll provide critical support that makes healing happen. We'd love to have you join us. Responsible for approximately900workload units of general and various types of medical/patient care equipment, including life saving/support devices. Repair, service, calibrate, and maintain a wide variety of patient care/medical equipment. The maintenance of these devices includes troubleshooting to component level and routine periodic inspections. Perform initial acceptance inspections on medical equipment . Provide technical support to the Nursing staff and equipment operators. Perform other related duties as required. Assignment areas include critical care. Salary Range: $44.26 - $58.39 / hour Qualifications 3 years as BMET I or minimum 5 years Biomedical experience. Skills in the use and operation of various electronic test equipment including analog and digital electrical safety test analyzers, analog and digital voltmeters, function generators, power supplies, oscilloscopes, various pressure and vacuum gauges. Skills in the use and operation of various types of medical technology test equipment including ECG (electrocardiograph), respiration and temperature simulators, and ventilators' calibration analyzers and testers. Ability to use hand tools. Skills in soldering/desoldering techniques. Ability to read, interpret and analyze electrical schematics, block diagrams and test procedures for a multitude of patient care/ medical equipment. Knowledge of analog and digital electronic circuitries. Ability to complete various types of technical reports in clear writing. Basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology. Knowledge and ability to operate P.C. (personal computers) to open and close work orders and complete technical documentation and reporting. Skills in oral communications with medical, nursing staff, various levels of hospital personnel and vendors. Skills in efficient troubleshooting techniques. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and professional working relationships with other members of Clinical Engineering, Nursing and other staff of the hospital at different levels. Conducts incident evaluations on medical devices involved in events. Preferred * AAMI certification.