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Are you looking to take your career to new heights with a leader in healthcare? SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is one of the nation's leading metropolitan medical centers. As the only academic medical center in Brooklyn, we serve a large population that is among the most diverse in the world. We are also highly-ranked by Castle Connolly Medical, a healthcare rating company for consumers, among the top 5 leading U.S. medical schools for training doctors.

Bargaining Unit:

UUP

Job Summary:

The Department of Acute Dialysis at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Medical Instrumentation Tech Supervisor / TH Medical Instrumentation Senior Specialist. The successful candidate will:

• Develop work schedules for all staff technicians and make adjustments as needed to accommodate changing workloads.
• Evaluate staff productivity, efficiency, and other specific work quality performance indices.
• Audit work completed by in-house staff and take corrective actions where necessary.
• Perform staff performance evaluations and make decisions regarding merit increases or promotions.
• Interview potential new hire candidates and make hiring decisions.
• Initiate disciplinary actions and counsel employees when required.
• Ensure all resources are available to staff members as needed to allow them to perform maintenance and repair of medical equipment and systems as assigned.
• Provide training to biomedical technicians as appropriate.
• Verify process exists to ensure appropriate response to all service requests.
• Produce, review, and make assessments of various reports related to work completion, unfinished work, preventive maintenance completion rates, and repeat equipment failures.
• Monitor monthly expenditures and work with management staff in recommending how best to control equipment service related costs.
• Recommend equipment renovation, refurbishment, replacement, or re-deployment based on equipment age, failure rate, cost of service, and overall ability to support the clinical use for which it is intended.
• May be required to perform safety testing and preventive maintenance on clinical equipment.
• May be required to perform complex repairs involving extensive troubleshooting to the component level.
• Collaborate with other support entities (e.g., Information Services or Facilities Management) to develop support plans for devices or systems that require multi-disciplinary support.
• Function as a resource person to areas of responsibility. This may include providing instruction as to the safe and proper use of medical equipment or acting as a technical resource to assigned staff.
• Understand and comply with Joint Commission and other applicable standards and regulations.

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ year of experience as bio-med technician for dialysis.
• High School Diploma.

Preferred Qualifications:

• College degree preferred.

Work Schedule:

Variable Days; Variable Hours

Salary Grade/Rank:

Salary Range:

Commensurate with experience and qualifications

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement:

  An approved COVID-19 vaccination.

Executive Order:

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation.  If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu