Biomedical Engineer ERT
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International Medical Corps is hiring a senior Biomedical Engineer for its Emergency Response Team in Uganda. The role involves setting up, maintaining, and ensuring quality assurance of critical medical equipment in the field, assessing health facilities, and training local staff. The position requires a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
- Senior-level role with 8+ years experience required
- Focus on emergency response medical equipment management
- Involves field assessments and staff training
- Full-time position based in Uganda
- Requires in-depth engineering and biomedical knowledge
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- Required8+ years of relevant experienceThe job post includes a minimum experience signal.
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Experience
- Level:
- Senior level
- Length:
- 8 years
- Language Requirement:
- English
- Working Hours:
- Full Time - 8 to 5
- Applicant
- Location:
- Uganda
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- may be substituted as appropriate.
- Typically, 8+ years of relevant and progressive
- as a biomedical or electronic technician/engineer.
- In-depth knowledge of engineering technology
- In-depth understanding of physics, biology, and human biochemistry
- Creativity and design skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Research and analytical skills
- Demonstrable technical skills and understanding
- Pedagogical skills are an asset
- of installation and maintenance of ventilators
- People Management
- Commitment to Humanitarian Principles
- Behavioral Flexibility
- Result and Quality Orientation
- Teamwork and Cooperation
- Computer Literacy
- Fluent in English
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Job Summary
The Biomedical Engineer, ERT is a critical part of the Emergency Response Team responsible for the setup, quality assurance, and maintenance of critical medical equipment in the field. As part of the team, they will also conduct assessments of the designated health facilities, contribute to outlining needs and resources, and carry out necessary on-the-job training for the staff working in these facilities.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.
Main Tasks And
Responsibilities
Participating in the definition of the objectives and planning of the biomedical activities
Monitoring and ensuring the implementation of the biomed activities in the identified healthcare facilities; ensuring compliance to international standards, protocols and procedure; and reporting to the team leader on the development of the ongoing biomedical and maintenance activities.
They will be responsible for creating a system that includes:
Monitoring and ensuring the implementation of biomed equipment management procedures in the facilities (installation, disposal/renewal, correct use, and maintenance) and ensuring a good follow up of the different maintenance contracts.
Ensuring that the preventive and curative maintenance, fault diagnosis, interval diagnosis and certification are performed for those items of equipment for which specialized training has been received.
Ensuring adequate equipment/support exchange (repair returns, installation, and replacement) to help ensure that as few items are out of service in the hospital at any given time.
Organizing, planning, and ensuring appropriate stock management including inventories of spare parts and back up equipment; and
Contributing to and ensuring adequate monitoring and quality assessment of the procurement process for biomedical equipment in the field
Managing any biomed technicians to complete needed tasks.
In collaboration with the Response Lead and the Medical Coordinator, participating in the planning and implementation of HR associated processes (recruitment, training, briefing/debriefing, evaluation, detection of potential, development and communication) of the staff under their responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required to correctly perform all logistics activities pertaining to his area.
Providing technical support and training to staff on the use, control, preventive maintenance, and basic repair of most common equipment. Managing the training of medical staff about hygiene on biomed equipment following the result of a regular assessment of medical services on these question
Participating in the end of mission report to outline recommendations for the hospitals.
Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and
listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.
Minimum Qualifications
Typically, a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering. An equivalent combination of relevant
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