Clinical Engineer

Description

Job Summary: The Clinical Engineering Supervisor leads the safe and efficient management of the medical-hospital technological park, ensuring regulatory compliance, resource optimization, and team development. Key Highlights: 1. Technical leadership and management of clinical engineering operations 2. Supervises and guides technicians to ensure quality and efficiency 3. Ensures compliance and excellence in service delivery The **Clinical Engineering Supervisor** serves as the technical leader and operational manager for clinical engineering activities within their assigned unit, ensuring safe, efficient, and economically responsible management of the medical-hospital equipment technological park. They guarantee excellence in service delivery, regulatory compliance, resource optimization, and technical team development, acting as a fundamental pillar for customer satisfaction and service quality. * **Operational Management and Compliance:** Ensure implementation and continuous maintenance of processes defined in the unit's **Health Technology Management Plan (HTMP)**, using designated systems and tools. Guarantee full compliance of operations and documentation with applicable legislation, technical standards (e.g., NBR IEC 60601, ISO/IEC 17025 where applicable), and regulations (ANVISA, INMETRO). Review and ensure organization and control of all process-related documents within the management system (e.g., DOO), ensuring traceability and easy access. Prepare and organize documentation and processes related to the unit's **hospital accreditation**, assembling presentations for audits and leading the certification process to successful completion. * **Leadership and Team Development:** **Supervise and guide daily activities of clinical engineering technicians**, ensuring quality and efficiency in maintenance, calibration, and testing services. Monitor individual and team performance, providing constructive feedback and actively participating in staff technical development. Ensure team adoption and replication of company-provided training, while promoting technical knowledge sharing with both the team and the client's clinical staff. * **Maintenance Management and Technological Park Optimization:** **Ensure resolution of corrective maintenance requests**, supervising diagnosis, quotation of parts/accessories, and proposal of effective solutions. Supervise and monitor execution of **planned maintenance (preventive and predictive)** for equipment, ensuring adherence to schedules and issuance of reports and certificates. Ensure accurate completion and recording of all activities in the maintenance management system (MMS), from request initiation through service evaluation. Prepare **technical opinions** and equipment obsolescence reports, based on historical data and regulatory requirements, to support evaluation of the client's technological park. * **Vendor and Contract Management:** Supervise third-party services and contract execution within the unit by reviewing external service orders. Evaluate cost-effectiveness of third-party contracts and ad-hoc services, proposing optimizations or alternatives. Manage and track material, accessory, and replacement part orders to ensure efficiency and continuity of Medical-Hospital Equipment (MHE) operation, managing inventory in the MMS. * **Data Analysis and Reporting:** Prepare **detailed technical reports** for corrective and preventive maintenance, calibrations, and electrical safety tests. Conduct critical analyses to present equipment status to clients, recommending technically and economically viable solutions to optimize technological park management. Keep the immediate coordinator informed about work progress and challenges, seeking solutions and aligning strategies during daily meetings and communications. * **Client Relationship and Service Expansion:** Serve as the primary technical contact point with the client hospital’s team and management for clinical engineering matters. Perform equipment quotations and coordinate demonstrations, as required by the client, aiming to expand the scope of services and solutions offered. * **Asset and Resource Management:** Maintain proper care and organization of all equipment and tools assigned to the role, requesting replacements when necessary. Perform other duties pertinent to the position, as delegated by the Clinical Engineering Coordinator or immediate supervisor.