Engineering Assistant, Group Biomedical Engineering

Alexandra Hospital, Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexandra Hospital, Singapore seeks an Electronics/Biomedical Engineering professional to provide end-to-end support for medical equipment across commissioning, operation, maintenance and decommissioning.

You will supervise vendors, handle maintenance activities, and work with hospital staff to ensure safety and reliability of devices. Strong troubleshooting and IT literacy are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Electronics or Biomedical Engineering or equivalent.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; basic IT knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for commissioning, operation, maintenance and de-commissioning of medical equipment.
• Supervise vendors and contractors on maintenance works to ensure quality and standards compliance.
• Update and collect user feedback on equipment performance, reliability and quality.
• Check, analyse and investigate faults/complaints/hazards and assist engineers with action plans.
• Ensure quality of works conform to hospital standards and quality initiatives.
• Manage stock and spares for frontline technical support and assist stock documentation.
• Coordinate services for equipment projects with vendors, contractors and consultants.
• Perform other duties as assigned by BME engineers.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

IT literacy

Independent worker

Team collaboration

Education

Diploma in Electronics / Biomedical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

The incumbent provides engineering support to the lifecycle of a medical equipment, which includes commissioning of new medical equipment, breakdown and preventive maintenance and de-commissioning of medical equipment.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to all hospital personnel in the commissioning, operation, maintenance and de-commissioning of medical equipment
• Supervise the specialist vendors and appointed contractors on medical equipment maintenance works to ensure quality of works and compliance to required standards
• Update and collect feedback from users regularly on the maintenance, performance, reliability and quality of medical equipment
• Check, analyse and investigate faults / complaints / hazards on medical equipment and assist BME engineers in mapping out and implementation of required action plans
• Ensure quality of works conform to standards and practices that the hospital subscribes to, including other quality initiatives driven by hospital and department
• Manage stock and spares for front line technical support and assist stock supervisor in documentations
• Assist BME engineers in coordinating services for medical equipment projects with vendors, contractors and appointed project consultants
• Perform any other duties and tasks as assigned by BME engineers

Requirements

• Preferably a Diploma in Electronics / Biomedical Engineering or equivalent engineering course
• Able to work independently with minimum supervision
• Positive work attitude and the ability to work with all levels of staff
• Possess good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Possess basic knowledge on IT, such as Microsoft Office. Microsoft Excel
• Advantageous to have basic understanding in Cybersecurity and IT network knowledge

Only Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents may apply.