Hospital Equipment Mechanic

Rhode Island Hospital; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 47,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Union: International Brotherhood Team—

Job summary

Rhode Island Hospital is seeking a Maintenance Technician to repair and maintain hospital machinery and equipment, including conveyors, beds, laundry systems, and lab equipment. You will read blueprints, fabricate parts, and perform electronic repairs, ensuring safety and compliance with Joint Commission standards.

Three to four years of related experience are required; the role involves inspecting and repairing a wide range of hospital systems and equipment in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Completion of High School or Trade School with courses in welding, electricity and mechanics.
• Ability to read blueprints, design parts to be fabricated and to investigate cause and resolve equipment malfunctioning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of standard maintenance and metal working tools, electronic diagnostic tools (i.e. digital and analog multimeter, leakage meter, signal traces or logic probe), their proper use and care.
• Thorough understanding of electronic controls as well as pneumatic principles to maintain the tube system.
• Must have a good driving record, meet and maintain the appropriate and valid driver's licenses in order to operate motor vehicles as required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, and in accordance with Brown University Health's Fleet Risk Control Policy.

Responsibilities

• Observes mechanical devices such as pumps, motors, conveyors, systems, etc. in operation to determine cause of trouble.
• Repairs malfunctioning equipment or machinery by dismantling devices, replacing parts, and testing performance after repair.
• Welds, brazes, solders; burns, and operates hand and drill presses; uses sheet metal tools and engine timing light.
• Performs electronic repairs by troubleshooting control circuits on beds, pneumatic tube systems, doors, etc., ensuring compliance with Joint Commission regulations and safety codes.
• Repairs or fabricates machinery and equipment parts using metalworking tools; designs parts as needed.
• Inspects and maintains laundry machinery, trayveyor systems, automatic doors, beds, wheelchairs, stretcher tables, carts, vehicles, and snow plow equipment; performs field repairs as needed.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Troubleshooting

Metalworking tools

Electronic diagnostics

Driving license

Education

High School/Trade School diploma

Tools

Digital multimeter

Analog multimeter

Leakage meter

Logic probe

Job description

SUMMARY:

Under general supervision, repairs and performs routine maintenance to hospital machinery and equipment, such as conveyors, patient stretchers and beds, laundry equipment, laboratory equipment and motor vehicles. Repairs and fabricates machinery and equipment parts.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another.

The core Success Factors include:

• Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Observes mechanical devices such as pumps, motors, conveyors, systems, etc. in operation to determine cause of trouble. Coordinates time of repair with affected personnel and requisitions materials needed.
• Repairs malfunctioning equipment or machinery by; dismantling devices to gain access to, and removing and replacing defective parts and adjusting parts of devices and control instruments. Installing special functional and structural parts or modifications. Tests performance after repair is completed.
• Welds, brazes, solders; burns, and operates hand and drill presses. Operates sheet metal shears, lathes and benders, all mechanics tools and engine timing light.
• Performs electronic repairs by troubleshooting control circuits on beds, pneumatic tube system personnel/objects sensors at automatic doors, etc, ensuring compliance with Joint Commission regulations as well as local safety codes.
• Repairs or fabricates machinery and equipment parts, using metalworking tools, duplicates or designs parts based on need, use, size, and frequency of use.
• Performs inspections, routine maintenance, major and minor repairs on all laundry machinery, all types of trayveyor systems, automatic doors throughout the complex, beds, wheelchairs, stretcher tables, carts of all types and sizes, vehicles and snow plow equipment. Assembles, cleans, inspects, tests mechanical and electrical repairs in bed shop, garage and also out in the field. Some repairs must be made while machinery is still running at heat ranges of 300F and over.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

BASIC KNOWLEDGE:

• Completion of High School or Trade School with courses in welding, basic electricity and mechanics.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints, design parts to be fabricated and to investigate cause and resolve equipment malfunctioning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of standard maintenance and metal working tools, electronic diagnostic tools (i.e. digital and analog multimeter, leakage meter, signal traces or logic probe), their proper use and care.
• Thorough understanding of electronic controls as well as pneumatic principles to maintain the tube system.
• Must have a good driving record, meet and maintain the appropriate and valid driver's licenses in order to operate motor vehicles as required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, and in accordance with Brown University Health's Fleet Risk Control Policy.

EXPERIENCE:

Three to four years of related experience required.

WORK ENVIRONEMNT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Physical ability to carry tools and lift moderately heavy items.
• Manual dexterity to take machinery apart.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

None

Pay Range:

$34.06-$43.48

Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Location:

Rhode Island Hospital - 593 Eddy Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903

Work Type:

1430-2300

Work Shift:

Evening

Driving Required:

Yes

• Union: International Brotherhood Teamsters