About This Role
This role involves maintaining and repairing medical and water treatment equipment in kidney care clinics. You will also train colleagues on the operational maintenance of dialysis machines to ensure patient safety and manage necessary medical supplies. The position suits a collaborative, independent, and analytical individual with mechanical aptitude.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair dialysis equipment, ancillary equipment, and water treatment systems
- Maintain the physical plant, as directed
- Ensure outside vendor services are completed per contract
- Purchase and retain an inventory of service parts
- Perform, evaluate, and report water/dialysate sample collection and any actions required
- Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly trend analysis on the water system to assure system functions as designed
- Document all repairs and maintenance activity
- Assist in planning and installing biomedical equipment to assure safe and effective operation of facility
- Transport equipment as needed with supervisor consent
- Participate in monthly technical and regulatory meetings
- Collaborate with facility staff to ensure all regulatory and OSHA requirements are met
- Manage inventory, including receiving and putting up deliveries, inventory counts, transporting goods between clinics as needed, and assisting clinical management with inventory costs
- Perform initial and annual verification and ongoing monitoring of patient care staff’s technique for testing water system, assuring tests and documentation comply with manufacturer’s specifications for the devices and test equipment used
- Complete all technical training programs required by state/federal regulations and company policy
- Provide scheduled after-hour technical on-call coverage for your clinics as needed
Requirements
- High school diploma or G.E.D. required
- Valid Driver's License issued in the employee’s state of residence required
- Successful completion of Fresenius Biomedical Technician training within the first 24 months of service from date of hire
- Less than 1-year related experience
- Manual dexterity required - ability to use common hand tools and small power equipment
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and safely move large/bulky equipment
- Ability to create a safe and efficient work environment, OSHA – 6S – Infection Control
- Employees are required to take the Ishihara's Color Blindness test as a condition of employment
Nice to have:
- Associate Degree in electronics / biomedical technology, or equivalent
