Biomedical Engineer - Maritime

Iqarus has a proud history, extending over 40 years, of delivering fully-integrated healthcare solutions in complex and demanding operating environments. We operate across the medical spectrum from primary care and occupational health, to advanced pre-hospital trauma care, through to full scale laboratory, radiological, diagnostic and surgical capabilities. Our approach projects the highest standards of clinical care into the environments in which we operate, through a combination of local knowledge, multinational medical staff, integrated global clinical governance, training and medical supply. Our highly-skilled operational teams deliver frontline and preventative services to mitigate health risk and help organisations keep their workforces safe, healthy, resilient and productive. By increasing the quality, simplicity and efficiency of health delivery we enhance our clients’ return on investment in health and in many instances, help elevate social and/or humanitarian objectives too. Our clients include multinationals and SMEs, governments, non-governmental organisations, supra-nationals, and non-governmental organisations.

The Biomedical Engineer is the responsible person for ensuring all medical equipment is maintained, calibrated, repaired and in good working condition at all times, during deployments and while in home base.

The key roles and responsibilities of the BMET Engineer is:

• Overall medical equipment maintenance and inspection
• Calibrate all equipment on deployment
• Preventative maintenance of all equipment on a regular basis
• Inspection of faulty equipment and on-site repairs or off-site OEM repairs
• Training of clinical staff in use of specific medical equipment and accessories
• Advise to clinical team on specific equipment requirements
• Set up and manage the BMET capability within the project, supporting BMET requirements.
• Preparing equipment status reports by gathering, analysing, and summarizing relevant information within the BME Smartcare cloud software application.
• Evaluate the requirements for BMET calibration equipment for each department as needed.
• Coordinating the evaluation, repair and final disposition of equipment Iqarus owned or client owned equipment as required to maintain capability within the various departments
• Evaluate, interview and make recommendations on hiring of new BMET technicians.
• Support, as required, the Procurement team in the sourcing of medical equipment.

• Qualifications & Experience:
  • Minimum of 5 years’ management or operations experience, preferably in a challenging geographical location
  • 10 Years’ experience as BioMedical Maintenance Technician
  • Experience of working in a busy healthcare system essential
  • Good knowledge of administrative processes
  • Good IT skills (Word, Excel and Outlook a minimum)
  • Good communication skills both written and verbal
  • Excellent planning and organising skills, and accuracy and attention to detail
  • Offshore BOSIET/HUET training mandatory entry requirements

IQ Head Office Report: BMET Coordinator, Procurement Manager, Director of Delivery

Phase 3 deployment: Deploy as at-sea BMET for mobilisation periods during deployments.