Sr Engineer / Engineer, Biomedical Engineering

NHG Health; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore seeks a Biomedical Equipment Engineer to perform preventive maintenance and repairs on biomedical systems. You will liaise with user departments, vendors, and service contractors to ensure timely completion and uptime of critical equipment.

Responsibilities include coordinating IT integration issues, drafting technical specifications, and preparing equipment reports to support clinical engineering decisions.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or Diploma in Biomedical Engineering with relevant experience.
• Experience in preventive maintenance and breakdown repair of biomedical equipment.
• Strong liaison with user departments and vendors; ability to prepare technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Perform scheduled preventive maintenance and complete tasks per manufacturer instructions.
• Troubleshoot and repair breakdowns for biomedical systems following checklists.
• Liaise with user departments and vendors to ensure timely completion of service contracts.
• Assist with IT integration issues related to biomedical equipment and draft technical specs.
• Prepare reports by collecting and summarizing data and trends on equipment.

Skills

Preventive maintenance

Troubleshooting

Vendor liaison

IT integration

Technical reporting

Education

Degree in Engineering

Diploma in Biomedical Engineering

NITEC in Engineering

Fresh degree holder considered

Tools

EMR integration

Cybersecurity basics

Job description

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Institution: Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Family Group: Ancillary

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

SPECIFIC

• Perform and complete the scheduled preventive maintenance jobs for biomedical system by following manufacturer's instructions and checklist.
• Troubleshoot and repair breakdown jobs for biomedical system by following manufacturer's instructions and checklist.
• Liaise with user department and vendors to ensure preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance jobs for biomedical system equipment under service contract are completed within the required timeframe.
• Liaising with biomedical equipment vendors on commissioning jobs and ensuring newly purchased biomedical equipment are functioning according and within manufacturer's specifications.
• Troubleshooting and assisting user department on IT integration related issues for biomedical equipment.
• Placing and expediting parts orders for breakdowns jobs.
• Ensuring scheduled preventive maintenance and breakdowns jobs for team are completed within the required timeframe.
• Liaising with user department, biomedical equipment vendors ensuring impact to user’s operations are minimized.
• Assisting user department on their biomedical equipment inventory.
• Preparing reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends on biomedical equipment for user department.
• Participating and providing technical inputs from BME department’s perspective in projects, meetings, discussions with various user departments.
• Liaising with users and purchasing department on the requirements and drafting of technical specifications for procurement of new biomedical equipment.
• Participating and providing technical inputs from BME department’s perspective in evaluation and procurement of biomedical equipment.
• Providing support and technical decision guidance to technical officers on communications skill, issues resolutions and customer services.
• Attending technical training on biomedical equipment arranged by the department.
• Knowledge in IT, Cybersecurity and EMR Integration related matters for biomedical equipment.

GENERAL

• Be a team player to accomplish a win-win situation between BME department and user department.
• Help promote a working environment of collegiality and effective teamwork.
• Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Performs liaison functions between various department as to facilitate information flow and services support to the user department.
• Maintains safe and healthy working environment
• Any other duties / projects as assigned by the Supervisor / Head of Department.

EDUCATION

• Degree in Engineering with a minimum of 2 years relevant working experience; or
• Diploma in Biomedical Engineering with a minimum of 8 years relevant working experience; or
• NITEC in Engineering NITEC with a minimum of 14 years relevant working experience.
• Fresh graduate with a Degree in Engineering may also be considered for the role.

EXPERIENCE

• Self-driven and highly independent, with a proven ability to lead maintenance activities and technical projects effectively.
• Possesses a strong understanding of clinical engineering principles and their practical application in a healthcare environment.
• Demonstrates advanced technical expertise and strong analytical skills to diagnose and resolve complex engineering and equipment-related issues.
• Prior experience in a hospital or healthcare setting will be highly advantageous.

Knowledge of IT integration for biomedical systems.

Experience in drafting technical specifications; evaluation and assessment of biomedical systems are preferred.