Supervisor Clinical Engineering - Northwest

Trimedx • Springfield, OR

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About The Position

The Supervisor, Clinical Engineering leads clinical engineering initiatives to provide superior customer service and operational efficiency by managing the execution of the TRIMEDX Medical Equipment Management Plan (MEMP). This position assists the Clinical Engineering Manager with all aspects of program management, including work history data analysis, staffing allocation, budget control, equipment acquisition planning and outside vendor management. The Supervisor manages operations on a day-to-day basis, collaborates and maintains positive relationships with customers, works to develop colleagues, and provides a communication channel between hospital executives and TRIMEDX. The Clinical Engineering Supervisor also directs Joint Commission inspections and ensures that TRIMEDX services are in compliance with regulatory standards. This position may include a hands-on service component.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years' experience working with biomedical equipment in a clinical engineering environment or other equivalent experience.
• Experience leading/managing in a clinical engineering environment preferred but not required.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications required.
• Ability to manage day-to-day and long-term site operations.
• Possess strong leadership, organizational, and time management skills in effort to make effective decisions.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and develop others.
• Ability to perform basic financial analysis and calculate budgets, revenue, and costs.
• Knowledge of state and federal inspection agencies (TJC, CAP, DNV, and other accrediting bodies).
• Strong written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to integrate information from a variety of sources.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Must lead others, execute company policies, procedures, and strategies, build relationships across one customer base, and mentor Technicians.
• The preferred path includes prior experience as a Manager Assistant Site Manager (ASM) or Senior Technician.

Nice To Haves

• Education and Qualifications: Associate degree or equivalent experience required. Electronics related technical discipline or equivalent military training preferred. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Technical certification such as A+, CBET, CRES, CLES or CCE preferred.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge and experience of technology and/or equipment to oversee site operations and provide direction to others.
• Motivate others through praise, recognition, and rewards.
• Manage personnel by staffing and scheduling technicians in a manner that assures the best service possible.
• Conduct semi-annual and annual technician performance evaluations.
• Coach and mentor technicians by providing feedback on performance including corrective action of team members.
• Develop others to continuously achieve long and short-term business results.
• Participate in the hiring process of new employees.
• Build and maintain relationships with customers by employing interpersonal and conflict management skills.
• Influence change through recommendations.
• Manage service operations functions, such as service contracts and resources.
• Document the demand labor, demand parts, contracts, in-house labor, and in-house parts.
• Use policies as guides and apply sound judgement in day-to-day activities.
• Answer questions and meet with others to discern the root cause of technological/process problems.
• Manage inventory of shop supplies and database stockroom for accuracy to include an annual inventory.
• Develop service strategies with an outlook of continuous process improvement and provide metrics to TriMedx Central/Corporate Office (CO).
• Participate in Quarterly Value Reviews (QVR's) and/or system-level reports or meetings.
• Manage Joint Commission inspections and make sure open work orders are made a priority and that performance assurance inspections are documented.
• Manage site KPI's (PM's, WOT's, Alerts and Regulatory).
• Assist with the work order approval process.
• Support and make recommendations on continuous improvement initiatives and work with leadership to implement identified corrective actions.
• Effectively collaborate with customers and vendors to develop win-win solutions.
• Monitor each modality after setting financial and performance benchmark.
• Participate in customers departmental meetings such as: Imaging, Lab and OR Directors.
• Fill in for Site Manager or Senior Site Manager as needed.
• Advise users of equipment status and ensure all service and documentation is complete, timely and accurate.
• Responsible for contract recommendations; evaluating, adding, and removing when fit.
• Serve on hospital committees such as: Environment of Care (EOC) and Capital Planning Committees.
• Schedule workload, schedule maintenance leveling and improve daily operations.
• Identify department problems/trends and implement long term solutions.
• Manage on-call functions/rotations within the database.
• Evaluate and approve parts request and on-site/off-site vendor service requests.
• Define and recommend solutions to satisfy a customer subset.
• Interact with external customers.
• Resolve customer issues and ensure customer satisfaction for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Use policies as a guide and apply sound judgment in day-to-day activities.
• Influence change through recommendations.
• Support and make recommendations on continuous improvement initiatives; work with leadership to implement identified corrective actions.
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI) performance management, Expense Management, Customer Satisfaction, and Associate Engagement.
• Contribute to EOC performance.
• May be over site(s) with less than $3M in revenue.
• Budget and expense management.
• Supports upper management from a tactical standpoint; spends 25% of time doing the work of a technician.
• Support single or multiple sites.
• May have additional time and material (T&M) sites and/or other small profit and loss (P&L) sites that are affiliated with assigned customers or in close geographic proximity.

Benefits

• Commitment to cultivating a workplace culture where every associate feels valued, supported, and empowered to thrive.
• Recognition and opportunities for growth.
• Embrace people's differences including age, race, color, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, education, genetics, veteran status, disability, religion, beliefs, opinions and life experiences.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees