Medical & Dental Equipment Servicing Technician - Plymouth, United Kingdom - Defence Electronics and Components Agency (DECA)

Description

Short summary
The main tasks and responsibilities of the post are:

• Inspection, installation, servicing and repair of various types of Medical, Dental & Veterinary equipment held by MoD customer units.
• Plan scheduled equipment programs for the Medical & Dental Servicing Section (MDSS) team including liaison with customer.
• Diagnosis of faults to major component level and specification testing of all Medical & Dental equipment (both Mechanical and Electronic) using MoD publications and Manufacturers manuals.

Responsibilities
Respond to breakdowns and emergency call-outs as soon as reasonably practical, taking into account priorities and customer target dates.

• Monitor MDSS performance against customer contractual targets.
• To ensure that all Medical and Dental equipment under the responsibility of DECA is maintained to the correct standard i.a.w. JSP 47
• Maintaining and raising all the necessary maintenance and performance records as required in accordance with MoD publications. These consist of both manual and computer records for all work carried out on Medical & Dental equipment; including spares & defectreporting.
• Coordinate the provision of spares with MDSS customer and equipment OEM's.
• Ensure MDSS monthly data is completed and Work in Progress is minimised.
• To ensure compliance with all relevant DECA policies, health, safety and environmental legislation.
• Be responsible for the investigation, completion and maintenance of all associated assessments, inspections and checks.
• To promptly report serious problems and issues that will prevent any maintenance from being completed at the required time to the MDSS Production Manager.
• Create and maintain a positive culture by raising the profile of DECA (Med & Dent) to other DECA employees, customers and contractors.
• Feeding of information back into the Medical & Dental Management Information System
• You will be required to make on the spot engineering decisions on equipment's, including withdrawal from use where patient or user safety is concerned.
• Scrutiny of relevant safety bulletins and hazard warnings.
• Safety is a primary consideration and work of high integrity is paramount
• Most work is carried out at the customer's site, so you will be required to hold a full UK driving licence and maintain a high level of driving competence at all times when driving a DECA vehicle

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. Monday - Thursday 8:00 - 16:30, Friday 8:00 - 13:00.


Essential Criteria:

Recognised and relevant training/qaulifications in an Electrical & Electronic Engineering capacity or Military equivalent.

Full Clean UK driving licence

MoD biomedical engineering certificate as required by JSP 473 or will confirm agreement to attend a 12 week residential course (currently MoD Lyneham) prior to starting in the post.

Desirable Criteria:

A working knowledge of the full suite of Microsoft Office Applications.