Respiratory Equipment Technician

CareWell Health; East Orange (NJ); On-site; USD 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

CareWell Health Medical Center seeks a Respiratory Equipment Technician to manage medical gas infrastructure, cylinders, and delivery systems. This non-clinical role focuses on logistics, safety, and hardware, while supporting Respiratory Therapists with non-clinical tasks and maintaining equipment.

Responsibilities include stocking and tracking gas cylinders, documenting orders, performing safety checks, rounds across departments, maintaining PAR levels, and ensuring regulatory compliance with

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required; excellent communication skills.
• AHA BLS Healthcare Provider certification required.
• Experience with respiratory equipment and stock management preferred.
• Knowledge of regulatory standards and safety Practices (Joint Commission, OSHA).

Responsibilities

• Stock, track, and order respiratory supplies, including gas cylinders.
• Rounds on patient care departments and central distribution to ensure availability of cylinders.
• Maintain PAR levels of respiratory therapy supplies and place orders with supervision as needed.
• Document purchase orders and maintain equipment logs.
• Transport and distribute respiratory equipment to care areas and labs.
• Perform safety checks and routine maintenance on equipment to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Manage central gas systems safety and cylinder inventory integrity.
• Assist RTs with non-clinical tasks such as ventilator setup and oxygen management.

Skills

Medical gas handling

Inventory management

Safety compliance

Documentation

Non-clinical support

Education

High School Diploma or GED

AHA BLS-HCP Certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Suite

Job description

The Respiratory Equipment Technician manages medical gas infrastructure, cylinders, and delivery systems without providing patient treatment. This role focuses on logistics, safety, and hardware rather than clinical assessment. The RT tech maintains, cleans and assembles equipment at Carewell Health Medical Center. Respiratory Equipment Technician is responsible for ordering supplies, manages the cylinder inventory and services the central gas system.

Essential Functions:

• Stock, track, and order respiratory supplies, including medical gas cylinders, ensuring adequate par levels in departments.
• Rounds on all patient care departments and central distribution to ensure the availability of medical gas cylinders meeting regulatory standards and replaced as needed.
• Maintains PAR levels of Respiratory Therapy Supplies. Placing supply orders with direct leader approval when necessary.
• Maintains proper documentation on purchase orders.
• Manages the stock of supplies and ensures stocked areas are organized and well kept, where applicable
• Receives, documents and stores as per site protocol a diverse range of medical gasses.
• Completes and documents assigned oxygen safety rounds.
• Rounds, documents, changes cylinders on all assigned medical gas manifolds.
• Manages the stock medication inventory and services the remote medication carts, where applicable.
• Transport and distribute respiratory equipment and supplies to patient care areas, laboratories, or on-site locations.
• Provides observations to identify and evaluate the state of equipment in order to maintain patient and equipment safety.
• Perform safety checks, routine maintenance, and functional tests on equipment to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., Joint Commission, OSHA).
• Maintains infection control standards throughout the department and in satellite locations.
• Maintains the safety and security of the cylinder inventory and centralized medical gas supply systems.
• Recognizes and responds to medical gas supply system alarms.
• Maintains equipment in a state of readiness.
• Manages equipment par levels in order to prevent rentals. Coordinates rentals with direct leader approval when necessary.
• Maintains medical gas and therapeutic supply levels within the department
• Communicates and collaborates with all members of the patient care team including nursing, pharmacy, receiving and transport staff.
• Assist Respiratory Therapists (RTs) with non-clinical tasks, such as setting up ventilators or delivering specialty kits and oxygen management.
• Documents all data and findings in a consistent, comprehensive and legible manner.
• Documentation includes, but is not limited to equipment logs, receivers, environment of care logs, repair tags, service reports and all other medical records compliance where applicable.
• Consults with immediate supervisor or assigned personnel for the ordering of the required medical gasses for the medical center.
• Manages communications between equipment technicians, clinical and biomedical staff.
• Provides on-call hours as needed.

Other Duties

• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to Carewell Health Medical Center Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Minimum Education/Certifications

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite platforms.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider (HCP) Certification.

Minimum Work Experience and Qualifications

• One year experience as a Respiratory Therapy Equipment Technician-Preferred.
• Experience with high pressure oxygen cylinders and electrical devices- Preferred.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the use of the respiratory therapy equipment and supplies that are required for respiratory therapy procedures.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the care, cleaning, disposition and storage of respiratory therapy equipment and supplies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the management and security of stock medications

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

• 8am-4pm M-Fr and as needed

Physical Requirements

• Lifts a minimum of 10 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 5 lbs. and stands a minimum of 6 hour a day.

CareWell Health provides a salary/hourly rate range for all open positions to comply with New Jersey Law. The rates listed for each position is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member’s base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity). The salary range does not include bonuses/incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation which can be discussed in detail with your talent acquisition specialist.

The salary/hourly rate range for this position is: $21.00 - $24.00

Salary ranges shown on third-party job sites may not accurately reflect ranges provided by CareWell Health. Candidates should discuss salary/hourly compensation and details of our comprehensive benefits with our talent acquisition specialist if selected for an interview.

We offer an excellent benefit package including but not limited to the following benefit offerings:

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Basic Life and Disability Insurance
• Whole Life, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Assistance Program

• 401(k)
• Paid Holidays and a generous Paid Time Off Plan"