Senior Calibration Technician

Sa Health - Statewide Clinical Support Services; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Annual leave

Health benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Statewide Clinical Support Services (SCSS) is seeking a Senior Calibration Engineering Technician in Adelaide to support SA Pathology. You will ensure biomedical, electromechanical, and other equipment is safe, accurate, reliable, and fit for purpose through calibration, maintenance, and repairs, while documenting results to engineering standards.

Join a small, multidisciplinary team and provide practical technical advice to laboratory staff, external agencies and contractors, with opportunities

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications and extensive experience in maintaining, repairing, calibrating and acquiring complex biomedical and electromechanical equipment to strict engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, repair and calibrate complex biomedical and electromechanical equipment.
• Document results in line with relevant engineering standards.
• Provide technical advice and support to laboratory staff, external agencies and contractors.

Skills

Biomedical equipment maintenance

Calibration expertise

Electrical engineering knowledge

Technical documentation

Tools

Calibration tools

Job description

$90,371 - $95,410 + Super & Salary Sacrifice

• Salary: TGO3 - $90,371 - $95,410 p.a. + Superannuation & Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Full Time, Permanent Role

About the role

As a Senior Calibration Engineering Technician, you’ll play a vital hands-on role in supporting SA Pathology and its customers by ensuring biomedical, electromechanical and other specialised equipment is safe, accurate, reliable and fit for purpose. Working across calibration, planned and remedial maintenance, you’ll apply your technical expertise to diagnose issues, undertake repairs and calibrations, and accurately document results in line with relevant engineering standards. You’ll also work closely with laboratory staff, external agencies and contractors, providing practical technical advice and responsive support.

Joining a small, multi-discipline team, you’ll bring strong technical capability, sound judgement and a commitment to delivering high-quality service. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to continuous improvement, apply best-practice principles and stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry developments. This is a role where your expertise will make a tangible difference, supporting the technology and equipment that enable SA Pathology to deliver essential healthcare services to the South Australian community.

About You

You’re a technically skilled and solutions-focused professional who thrives on variety, takes pride in quality workmanship and can confidently manage complex technical challenges. To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Relevant qualifications and extensive experience in maintaining, repairing, calibrating and acquiring complex biomedical and electromechanical equipment to strict engineering standards.
• Strong technical knowledge, including engineering principles, techniques and relevant Australian and International Standards and Codes.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prepare complex technical reports, specifications and tender evaluations, interpret customer requirements and develop logical solutions.
• A self-motivated, adaptable and safety-focused approach, with the ability to work independently or as part of a self-managed team, deliver quality outcomes under pressure and embrace continuous technological change.

About us

Statewide Clinical Support Services (SCSS) is a unique public healthcare organisation that serves health consumers and provides specialist clinical services to the health system in South Australia. SCSS encompasses BreastScreen SA, SA Dental, SA Medical Imaging, SA Pathology, and SA Pharmacy. Come and work with us to improve the health and well‑being of South Australians, across all age groups and at any time of their life or health need.

What we offer

• Salary Benefits: Enjoy flexible salary packaging options , including up to $9,010 each FBT year for living expenses (such as mortgage, rent, utilities and groceries) plus an additional $2,650 for meal and entertainment expenses.
• Annual Leave: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation, with leave loading applied.
• Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program for you and your family, plus an annual voluntary flu vaccination to support your wellbeing.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counselling and support services for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program.

Diversity and inclusion:

Statewide supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

A health career with SA Health is all about ensuring healthier, longer and better lives for all South Australians.

SA Health works to achieve these aims by strengthening primary health care, enhancing hospital care, reforming mental health care and improving the health of Aboriginal people.

When people think of SA Health, they probably think of doctors and nurses. However we employ IT staff, scientists, finance and allied health professionals and administrative staff just to name a few.

Pursuing a career in health is one of the most effective ways any of us can contribute to general wellbeing in our community. Every day over 30,000 individuals work together in our hospitals and health services to improve the wellbeing of South Australians.

We warmly invite you to join the dedicated, inspirational, and professional people in SA Health who are using their individual skills and strengths to contribute to the wellbeing of South Australians everyday.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website

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