Biomedical Technician

Fresenius Medical Care • Birmingham, AL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Biomedical Technician with Fresenius Medical Care, you will maintain and repair medical and water treatment equipment within our kidney care clinics. You will also train and educate colleagues on operational maintenance of our dialysis machines to ensure the safety of our dialysis patients, as well as manage the medical supplies required. Fresenius Medical Care believes in encouraging employees to achieve their full potential by offering opportunities for advancement, including a Biomedical Technician specific career ladder with three potential levels and a leadership path from Area Technical Operations Manager, Regional Technical Operations Manager, and Senior Director Technical Services, overseen by a Vice President of Technical Services and supported by Corporate Biomedical Support Managers. The company values, cares about, and supports its people, offering benefits like tuition reimbursement to support education goals, granting scholarships to family members, delivering relief when natural disasters strike, and providing financial support when personal hardship hits. Fresenius Medical Care fosters a nurturing environment that welcomes every age, race, gender, sexual orientation, background, and cultural tradition, with a diverse range of employee resource groups (ERGs) to encourage professional and personal development, discussion, activities, and peer support. The company is the world's leading provider of products and services for individuals with kidney disease, caring for around 292,000 dialysis patients globally and operating around 35 global production sites to provide products such as dialysis machines, dialyzers, and related disposables. The aim is to continuously improve patients’ quality of life by offering high-quality products as well as innovative technologies and treatment concepts.

Requirements

• High school diploma or G.E.D. required.
• Valid Driver's License issued in the employee’s state of residence required.
• Continued employment is dependent on 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.

Nice To Haves

• Associate Degree in electronics / biomedical technology, or equivalent
• Prior experience working in a mechanical, automotive, or construction industry, dialysis, or medical technical setting

Responsibilities

• Maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs dialysis equipment, ancillary equipment, and water treatment systems.
• Maintains the physical plant, as directed.
• Ensures outside vendor services are completed per contract.
• Purchases and retain an inventory of service parts.
• Performs, evaluates, and reports water/dialysate sample collection and any actions required.
• Conducts daily, weekly, and monthly trend analysis on the water system to assure system functions as designed.
• Documents all repairs and maintenance activity.
• Assists in planning and installing biomedical equipment to assure safe and effective operation of facility.
• Transports equipment as needed with supervisor consent.
• Participates in monthly technical and regulatory meetings.
• Collaborates with facility staff to ensure all regulatory and OSHA requirements are met.
• Manages inventory, including receiving and putting up deliveries, inventory counts, transporting goods between clinics as needed and assist clinical management with inventory costs.
• Performs 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.
• Completes all technical training programs required by state/federal regulations and company policy.
• Provides scheduled after hour technical on-call coverage for your clinics as needed.

Benefits

• Opportunities for advancement (Biomedical Technician specific career ladder with three potential levels, leadership path from Area Technical Operations Manager, Regional Technical Operations Manager, and Senior Director Technical Services, overseen by a Vice President of Technical Services and supported by Corporate Biomedical Support Managers).
• Tuition reimbursement to support your education goals.
• Granting scholarships to family members.
• Delivering relief when natural disasters strike.
• Providing financial support when personal hardship hits.
• Nurturing environment that welcomes every age, race, gender, sexual orientation, background, and cultural tradition.
• Diverse range of employee resource groups (ERGs) to encourage employees with similar interests, goals, social and cultural backgrounds, or experiences to come together for professional and personal development, discussion, activities, and peer support.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is provided by the company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees