Scientific Equipment Tech

Responsibilities

• Installation work associated with implementation of new equipment/systems. Assembly and installation of new equipment items includes hardware and software installation. Includes systems integration and connectivity testing.
• Initial inspections and acceptance inspections to validate specifications and performance levels of new equipment, including owned, rental, loaner, and demo equipment. Includes safety inspection prior to first clinical use.
• This includes functional testing, user acceptance testing, and formal acceptance actions (per contract). Includes design and assignment of operations and maintenance strategy, developing O&M plan and maintenance standard operating procedures. Establishing inventory record(s) and assigning maintenance schedule(s) for new equipment.
• Routine support and planned maintenance of medical devices and medical systems (including medical servers and other computer-based systems), including hardware, software, or communications networks.
• Typically performed according to defined procedures and on a scheduled basis, to minimize a device or system’s risk of failure and/or to ensure continued operation, safety, and data security. Includes tasks such as adjusting, calibrating, lubricating, cleaning, and replacing parts. Includes electrical safety inspection and testing. Includes testing the resiliency of medical systems infrastructure and fault tolerance testing. Includes visual inspection. Includes overhauls that are extensive replacing or rebuilding of system components (separate from upgrades).
• Performance of electrical safety evaluations and applicable electrical measurements per VA, NFPA 99, and manufacturer specified requirements.
• Verify device or system (includes medical servers and other computer-based hardware/software systems) to be operating according to manufacturer and other specifications, separate from restorative repairs. Inspection to verify that the physical integrity, safety, and performance of a device/system meets necessary functional requirements.
• Work performed on equipment to restore to clinical operation. Generally, hardware related. Restore physical integrity, safety, and/or performance of a device/system after a failure. This work typically includes troubleshooting and determination of the actions to complete the necessary repair(s); researching and determining necessary replacement parts; routine purchasing procedures; receipt of parts; completion of repair; and any intra-facility travel associated with pickup or return of equipment.
• Includes problem identification and resolution of medical systems servers that is primarily hardware related (may include incidental running of software routines, reloading software, or connectivity assessment that is incidental to the hardware resolution).
• Actual corrective action and/or coordination of corrective actions for affected or recalled medical devices and associated items.
• Physical de-installation of a medical device/system. Decommissioning activities include sanitation of stored sensitive information as appropriate (e.g., physical destruction), reviewing maintenance history for completeness, assisting logistics with condition coding, removing from maintenance schedule, and other associated turn-in activities (abiding with Decommissioning standard operating procedures).
• Work associated with relocation of a medical device or system.
• Providing training on the operation of medical equipment and technology systems. Includes training on operator-level maintenance and system administration. Includes time spent facilitating training with clinical educators, vendors, and other 3rd parties. Includes general training provided regarding medical equipment management, HTM services, equipment safety, new employee orientation, nurse staff meetings, etc., and mentoring of non-Biomedical Engineering personnel.
• Perform on-site support services for designing, fabricating, and maintaining custom built apparatus for measuring experimental parameters in tissue and live-animal experiments.

Qualifications

• Experience within a medical center and Biomedical Engineering department, working in or with the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Biomedical Engineering department operations
• A two-year associate degree or higher in an applied science or equivalent military training
• Demonstrated competency to perform operational verification procedures, planned
• maintenance, and repair service on various medical equipment
• Understanding of regulatory agencies’ requirements, industry regulatory requirements and International Standard Organization standards
• Familiarity with the setup and application of test equipment
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical literature, schematics, and drawings
• Level III Experience - A minimum of five years of hospital or healthcare experience performing medical equipment maintenance

Education

Location

• Baltimore: Onsite

Clearance

Pay Range

• The pay for this position ranges from $65,205 to $134,375.
• The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses.
• TISTA associates are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits plan! More information can be found here: https://tistatech.com/working-at-tista
• TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, a CMMI Maturity Level 3 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. TISTA is recognized in 2019 by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. TISTA is also a recipient of 2019 Top Veteran-Owned Companies by the Washington Business Journal. TISTA also received a 2018 Moxie Award in the GovCon category.