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Job Description
Seeking a Clinical Engineer to provide professional clinical engineering support to a 112-bed private hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
The Clinical Engineer will be responsible for the provision of a quality service of clinical systems, ensuring equipment performance and safety, and contributing to the development of Department/Hospital policies and services.
The Role
The Clinical Engineer will be responsible for:
- Establishing and implementing a medical equipment programme to ensure quality service of clinical systems.
- Providing comprehensive maintenance on all clinical equipment, ensuring it is inspected and tested in line with manufacturers' recommendations.
- Maintaining an inventory of all clinical equipment.
- Contributing to clinical justification and system specification prior to purchase.
- Maintaining close cooperation with internal stakeholders and staff of commercial companies.
- Maintaining good communications throughout the hospital where equipment issues impact on the provision of a service.
- Contributing to the development of Department/Hospital policies and services.
- Providing Systems Administration of all clinical network systems.
- Providing a proactively managed programme that lowers annual maintenance cost, increases equipment uptime, and provides the highest level of customer service.
- Assisting and overseeing technology assessment, capital purchasing, capital replacement projections, and medical equipment management that meets or exceeds Hospital needs.
- Providing maintenance services for all clinical equipment in respect of its functional, electronic, optical, electrical, and mechanical aspects to a standard of safety, accuracy, and reliability consistent with its function and with professional standards.
- Performing routine QA checking and measurements on all clinical equipment.
- Contributing to the construction, testing, service, and repair of auxiliary equipment.
- Assisting with the coordination and implementation of preventative maintenance schedules and safety programmes.
- Performing quality assurance on the hospital's electronic infrastructure.
- Performing quality control of items manufactured within the hospital and used in support of services delivered.
- Contributing to the processes for specification, purchase, installation, acceptance testing, and commissioning of equipment and services by the hospital.
- Ensuring the hospital has a system for monitoring and acting on clinical equipment and implantable device hazard notices, recalls, reportable incidents, problems, and failures.
- Contributing to the development and use of the department's equipment management database.
- Supporting the nursing, medical, and technical staff in the implementation of patient care involving technology.
- Participating in the maintenance and inventory of proper stock levels of spare parts and accessories as required to ensure minimum equipment downtime.
- Contributing to the support of research activities of the various departments.
- Responsible for reporting abnormal or unusual results or measurements lying outside the tolerance limits to the relevant stakeholders.
Qualifications
- A recognised diploma in Electrical, Electronic, or Mechanical Engineering or Physics, or a recognised qualification to at least equivalent standard.
- A minimum of 3 years relevant experience in the medical device industry (with a focus on medical equipment).
- Experience operating in a complex, fast-paced environment.