Clinical Systems Engineer IV

Kaiser Permanente; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 112,200 - 145,200; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Harbor City, CA seeks a healthcare technology strategist to execute planning and support clinical systems across inpatient and outpatient settings.

The role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, conducting moderate testing, and guiding investments while ensuring regulatory compliance and robust cyber security practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field with 3+ years of engineering experience or 6+ years in related field.
• Minimum 1 year in a leadership role and 2+ years in project management.
• Experience in healthcare technology and clinical systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead healthcare technology planning and site assessment across care settings.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deploy clinical systems and resolve issues.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards and review hazard alerts.
• Drive cyber security practices and document testing and design specifications.

Skills

Ambiguity management

Attention to detail

Communication

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Influencing others

Problem solving

Teamwork

Health care industry

Education

Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering or related field

Job description

Job Summary

Executes healthcare technology strategy and planning for inpatient/outpatient healthcare delivery through moderately complex assessments, needs, and site planning, as well as implementing systems and through investment analyses. Serves as a trusted advisor for clinical systems deployment and collaborates on incident investigations as needed. Provides healthcare technology expertise for testing clinical systems and equipment, resolving moderately complex issues, and documenting overall process. Facilities planning for healthcare technology research and assesses new healthcare-related technologies across multiple care delivery settings. Provides oversight for compliance/regulatory requirements through coordinating relevant processes and reviewing FDA and non-regulatory hazard alerts in a healthcare delivery setting. Develops, analyzes, and manages multiple technology plans through a variety of program management methodologies.

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Supports clinical systems by: serving as a trusted consultant to user groups and strategic partners to develop equipment configurations, review facility construction plans, and equipment lists, and provide technical and environment requirements for deployment for moderately complex projects for a market; and collaborating with others on incident investigations and equipment performance analysis on moderately complex problems to determine root causes of issues and develop solutions.
• Provides oversight for compliance by: coordinating with stakeholders to ensure technical systems and processes are used and maintained in a manner that ensures compliance with all relevant government regulations, accreditation, and industry standards; and reviewing FDA and non‑regulatory Hazard Alerts to determine the appropriate level of response in collaboration with the National Product Recall Management team.
• Provides technical expertise for clinical systems by: independently performing moderately technical testing on various clinical systems and associated equipment and technology; identifying, monitoring, and resolving moderately complex issues related to clinical systems and healthcare technologies that present a risk to the enterprise; recording and maintaining documentation for design specifications, testing, and validating of new and innovative technology to be incorporated into multiple markets in alignment with standards and requirements; independently providing technical expertise and consult for operational impacts of existing and new systems and technologies and prioritizing assigned projects within established timeframes; and driving cyber security trends in healthcare and ensure implementation in accordance with industry and company standards for healthcare technology.
• Executes strategies for clinical systems by: performing moderately complex healthcare technology assessments, needs analysis, and site planning to identify appropriate and relevant healthcare technologies that can be effectively implemented; independently assessing and implementing moderately complex systems that support networking, integration, and interoperability of healthcare technologies within multiple care delivery settings; applying broad strategies when conducting cost-benefit analysis and providing recommendations; and consulting with leaders to gain buy‑in and alignment in support of the development and production of healthcare technology strategic plans and forecasts, procurement programs, and service contracts for multiple care delivery settings.
• Facilitates innovative planning related to healthcare technologies by: researching and assessing new healthcare‑related technologies, strategies, and concepts and disseminating this information as appropriate across the enterprise; and conducting research to stay abreast of cutting‑edge technology and products (e.g., attending conferences or tradeshows, vendor product events).
• Develops, analyzes, and manages technology plans by: ensuring strategy and scope identification, managing schedules, evaluating inter‑dependencies, and resource forecasting for multiple technology plans; and monitoring overall performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan, ensuring measurement of business benefits and outcomes, and making adjustments as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross‑Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short‑and Long‑term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic‑Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Business Acumen
• Compliance Management
• Computer Literacy
• Confidentiality
• Consulting
• Engineering
• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
• Project Management
• Vendor Management

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum one (1) year of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in project management.
• Bachelors degree in engineering (Biomedical, Clinical, Mechanical, Electrical), engineering technology, or related field AND minimum three (3) years of experience in engineering or a directly related field OR Minimum six (6) years of experience in engineering or a directly related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• One (1) year of experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Three (3) years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• Two (2) years of experience in health care.

Primary Location : California, Harbor City, South Bay Medical Center

Scheduled Weekly Hours : 40

Shift : Day

Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start : 08:00 AM

Working Hours End : 05:00 PM

Job Schedule : Full‑time

Job Type : Standard

Worker Location : Flexible

Employee Status : Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Department : Oakland Reg - 1800 Harrison - National Clinical Technology - 0308

Pay Range : $112200 - $145200 / year

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Work Setting : Flexible

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.