Master Mechanic

Rhode Island Hospital; United States; On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhode Island Hospital is seeking a skilled maintenance technician to perform routine and complex repair work on hospital machinery and equipment, including patient stretchers, wheelchairs, laundry gear, and power doors. The role involves fabricating parts, welding, and conducting electronic repairs while adhering to safety standards and regulatory codes.

The position requires reading blueprints, coordinating repairs, and performing preventive maintenance on a variety of devices within the

Qualifications

• Equivalent to completion of four years of high school plus 1-2 years of trade schooling.
• Ability to read blueprints and design fabricated parts.
• Knowledge of standard maintenance tools and electrical diagnostic tools.

Responsibilities

• Observe mechanical devices to determine cause of trouble and coordinate repairs.
• Perform inspections and routine maintenance on laundry machinery, doors, and related hospital equipment.
• Dismantle devices to access parts, replace defective components, and test performance after repair.
• Weld, braze, solder, and operate hand and power tools; fabricate parts as needed.
• Monitor facilities, perform work on evening/night/weekend shifts, and manage inventory and work orders.

Skills

Analytical planning

Computer literacy

Education

High school + 1–2 years trade schooling

Tools

Multimeter (digital/analog)

Metalworking tools

Blueprint reading

Job description

SUMMARY:

Under the general supervision of the Facilities Supervisor, repairs and performs routine maintenance to hospital machinery and equipment, such as patient stretchers, wheel chairs, wheeled carts and equipment, laundry equipment, motor vehicles, and power operated doors. Repairs and fabricates machinery and equipment parts. Performs a variety of duties to temporarily replace or assist trades and craft personnel in maintenance, repair and construction work; monitor physical plant and perform maintenance functions alone on evening, night and weekend shifts and perform duties relating to tool and materials management as assigned. Is part of the snow team; removes snow using a shovel, snow blower, snow plow, and small engine powered pushers and loaders.

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.

In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:

Instill Trust and Value Differences

Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

RESPONSIBILITIES:

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Observes mechanical devices such as pumps, motors, systems, equipment, 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 powered tools. Operates sheet metal shear and lathe.
• Performs electronic repairs by troubleshooting control circuits on personnel/object sensors at power operated doors, etc., ensuring compliance with TJC 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, automatic doors throughout the complex, wheelchairs, stretcher tables, carts of all types and sizes, vehicles, ground equipment, and snow plow equipment. Assembles, cleans, inspects, tests mechanical and electrical repairs in stretcher shop, garage and also out in the field. Perform a variety of trade tasks temporarily replacing or assisting carpenters, electricians, plumbers, plasterers and other trade personnel.
• Monitor physical plant and perform maintenance while alone on evening, night, weekend and holiday shifts. Maintain the capacity of recognizing problems and of operating the mechanical and building systems, and maintain the knowledge and capability to perform all departmental standard operating procedures. Independently evaluate problems and either correct them or initiate appropriate action to correct them.
• Perform clean up duties on work sites; replace light bulbs and patient call cords; move materials, furniture and equipment; free clogged toilets and sinks by non-powered means; remove snow; change filters; service vacuum, oxygen, air and nitrous oxide patient outlets; lay floor tiles; paint and perform a variety of other duties as required by work order, emergency calls or direct assignment.
• Answer telephone calls, prepare work request forms, log request and track time required to perform jobs (person hours) for quality and productivity tracking.
• Maintain inventory of frequently used materials and equipment (tools) and issues same to workers upon request and presentation of request tag.
• Prepare purchase orders for materials required to perform a task for supervisor's signature.
• Maintain established hospital/department policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental and infection control.
• Perform other related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Analytical ability to plan, schedule and coordinate work projects.
• Basic computer skills with ability to navigate the Microsoft Office Suite of programs, the internet, and maintenance management software.

BASIC KNOWLEDGE:

• Equivalent to completion of four years of high school plus 1-2 years of trade schooling 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 multi-meter), their proper use and care. Familiar with trade requirements of carpenters, electricians, plumbers, plasterers and