Sr Engineer

Institution:  Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Family Group:  Ancillary

JOB SUMMARY


- Responsible for managing projects, preventive maintenance, breakdown maintenance and daily operations activities biomedical engineering team.
- Performs duties for a broad scope and complexity of biomedical system relating to preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance.
- Ensuring patient safety and safe usage of biomedical system through proper maintenance, testing and calibration.


MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES


SPECIFIC
 Perform and complete the scheduled preventive maintenance jobs for biomedical system by following manufacturer's instructions and checklist.
 Troubleshoot and repair breakdown jobs for biomedical system by following manufacturer's instructions and checklist.
 Liaise with user department and vendors to ensure preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance jobs for biomedical system equipment under service contract are completed within the required timeframe.
 Liaising with biomedical equipment vendors on commissioning jobs and ensuring newly purchased biomedical equipment are functioning according and within manufacturer's specifications.
 Troubleshooting and assisting user department on IT integration related issues for biomedical equipment.
 Placing and expediting parts orders for breakdowns jobs.
 Ensuring scheduled preventive maintenance and breakdowns jobs for team are completed within the required timeframe.
 Liaising with user department, biomedical equipment vendors ensuring impact to user’s operations are minimized.
 Assisting user department on their biomedical equipment inventory.
 Preparing reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends on biomedical equipment for user department.
 Participating and providing technical inputs from BME department’s perspective in projects, meetings, discussions with various user departments.
 Liaising with users and purchasing department on the requirements and drafting of technical specifications for procurement of new biomedical equipment.
 Participating and providing technical inputs from BME department’s perspective in evaluation and procurement of biomedical equipment.
 Providing support and technical decision guidance to technical officers on communications skill, issues resolutions and customer services.
 Attending technical training on biomedical equipment arranged by the department.
 Knowledge in IT, Cybersecurity and EMR Integration related matters for biomedical equipment.

 

GENERAL
 Be a team player to accomplish a win-win situation between BME department and user department.
 Help promote a working environment of collegiality and effective teamwork.
 Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
 Performs liaison functions between various department as to facilitate information flow and services support to the user department.
 Maintains safe and healthy working environment
 Any other duties / projects as assigned by the Supervisor / Head of Department.



JOB REQUIREMENTS

 

EDUCATION
Engineering Degree + 5 years working experience or Biomedical Engineering Diploma + 8 years
working experience or Engineering NITEC (National Institute of Technical Education Certificate) +
14 years working experience. 


EXPERIENCE
Must be motivated and independent person to work on maintenance matters and projects.
Must be capable to understand the concept on clinical engineering principles.
Must possess a technical knowledge to handle complex technical problems.
Preference would be given for experience in a Hospital or Healthcare industry.
Knowledge in IT integration for biomedical system.
Knowledge in drafting technical specification for biomedical system (Preferred).
Knowledge in evaluation of biomedical system (Preferred).