OR Equipment Coordinator

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 49,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health seeks an OR Equipment Coordinator to manage surgical equipment in the operating room suite at Alta View Hospital. The role requires scrubbing into cases as needed for staffing and lunch breaks, plus frontline equipment troubleshooting and inventory control.

You’ll work a 40-hour week (Mon-Fri, 6:00 AM–2:30 PM) with no mandatory on-call. Strong collaboration with Supply Chain and clinical engineering is essential for successful asset management and case readiness.

Qualifications

• Current National OR Tech Certification (active)
• BLS Certification for healthcare providers
• Experience in a surgical setting and knowledge of surgical equipment
• Ability to assist with equipment issues
• Competent in General Surgery and 2 specialty areas or all department procedures

Responsibilities

• Maintains complete and accurate inventory of current equipment.
• Maintains annual asset inventory.
• Ensures annual checks of protective imaging attire are completed.
• Provides onsite troubleshooting of equipment in the OR suite.
• Maintains vendor and Supply Chain relationships and ensures equipment is available for cases.
• Identifies potential equipment scheduling conflicts and assists management in resolving conflicts.
• Assists in capital budget process by providing quotes with Supply Chain.
• Assists in training staff on proper use of equipment.
• Maintains inventory of equipment sent for repair and coordinates with clinical engineering for repair and validation.
• Ensures borrowed equipment is delivered and returned timely.

Skills

Inventory management

Vendor relations

Troubleshooting

Staff training

Scrub in cases

Laser Safety Officer (optional)

Education

National OR Tech Certification

BLS Certification

Surgical experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

PeopleSoft

Capital budgeting software

Job description

Job Description: The OR Equipment Coordinator provides expert knowledge and coordination of surgical equipment in the operating room suite.

About this Position

This position is full time at 40 hours per week at Alta View Hospital. The shift for this position is Monday-Friday, 6AM- 2:30PM. No Call required. You will be asked to scrub into cases as needed for lunch breaks or other staffing needs.

Job Essentials

• Maintains a complete and accurate inventory of current equipment.
• Maintains annual asset inventory.
• Ensures that annual checks of protective imaging attire are completed.
• Provides onsite troubleshooting of equipment in the operating room suite.
• Maintains vendor and Supply Chain relationships and ensures equipment is available for cases.
• Identifies potential equipment scheduling conflicts and assists management in resolving conflicts.
• Assists management in the capital budget process by providing quotes in collaboration with the Supply Chain organization for equipment and recommendations of equipment needed for operating rooms.
• Assists in the training of staff on proper use of new and current operating room equipment.
• Maintains of inventory of equipment sent for repair and works with clinical engineering to ensure that equipment is repaired and validated correctly and in a timely manner.
• Ensures that borrowed equipment is delivered and returned in a timely manner consistent with guidelines and expectations.
• Scrubs assigned cases as needed.
• May act as a Laser Safety Officer.
• Completes other site specific duties as delegated.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current National OR Tech Certification (an active certification must be maintained).
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
• Experience in a surgical setting and knowledge of surgical equipment.
• Ability to assist with equipment issues.
• Must be competent and proficient in either General Surgery and 2 specialty areas or All surgical procedures performed in the department.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification as a Laser Safety Officer (as applicable).
• Knowledge of Microsoft word, excel, power point, PeopleSoft, and capital budgeting software.
• Ability to multi task and meet assigned deadlines.
• Critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills and experience.

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, sterile indicator tags, colors, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment and instruments with precision and accuracy. This includes computer use and typing for documentation, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc). May be expected to stand in a stationary position with personal protective equipment for an extended period of time.

Location: Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital Work City: Sandy Work State: Utah Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $35.60 - $54.93

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