Equipment Planner

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $46.37 - $66.66 / hour

Job Summary

Position Highlights

Bring your demonstrated planning and collaboration skills to this exciting opportunity as an Equipment Planner within Fraser Health's Facilities Planning and Real Estate team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, reviewing, and coordinating clinical equipment needs throughout the planning process including the development of specifications details and inventory assessment of all clinical equipment requirements.

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Work with the project planning teams to develop strategies and processes to manage and minimize FH contractual and technical risk associated with budget planning, design integration, equipment specifications, selection and installation of all project related equipment; develops strategies and processes for collecting, tracking, reviewing, and maintaining all clinical equipment data

Establish a process with the user group of a capital project for the development and review of the equipment list that responds to a desired and documented operational plan

Prepare business cases around equipment budget planning and forecasting including project requirements

Conduct research to ensure evidence-based information is provided throughout the project planning processes to identify and resolve critical path issues and to develop appropriate means to resolve these path issues

Develop project schedules and ensures activities and cost targets are adhered to by working with user groups to complete assigned to target dates

Identify and report equipment and equipment-related problems or deviations from the approved plan

Prepared justification reports as needed to accompany any requested equipment changes

Consult with Clinical and Facilities Planners in establishing and reviewing clinical equipment lists ensuring that appropriate specifications are established and design reflects user requirements and needs

Are you passionate about joining our team? We will be looking for you to have:

A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, clinical engineering, biomedical technology, or health technology, supplemented

Five (5) to seven (7) years’ recent, related experience with complex medical equipment.

An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be acceptable.

This is a Full Time position based at Central City in Surrey, BC.

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Responsible for developing, reviewing and coordinating clinical equipment needs throughout the planning process including the development of specifications details and inventory assessment of all clinical equipment requirements for various projects at Fraser Health (FH); works with a project planning team to establish, review and incorporate equipment lists into the planning and implementation phase of capital projects; assists with the developing the equipment budget and the installation of clinical equipment; maintains a project equipment database for FH.

Responsibilities

Works with the project planning teams to develop strategies and processes to manage and minimize FH contractual and technical risk associated with budget planning, design integration, equipment specifications, selection and installation of all project related equipment; develops strategies and processes for collecting, tracking, reviewing and maintaining all clinical equipment data.

Establishes a process with the user group of a capital project for the development and review of the equipment list that responds to a desired and documented operational plan; prepares business cases around equipment budget planning and forecasting including project requirements.

Conducts research to ensure evidence-based information is provided throughout the project planning processes to identify and resolve critical path issues and to develop appropriate means to resolve these path issues.

Develops project schedules and ensures activities and cost targets are adhered to by working with user groups to complete assigned to target dates; identifies and report equipment and equipment-related problems or deviations from the approved plan; prepared justification reports as needed to accompany any requested equipment changes

Consults with Clinical and Facilities Planners in establishing and reviewing clinical equipment lists ensuring that appropriate specifications are established and design reflects user requirements and needs; prepares equipment lists and associated budget and funding source; develops a procurement strategy including organizing equipment based on dollar value in consultation with the Procurement Department; confirms that adequate funding is in place.

Works with the other team members to ensure that facility design accommodates equipment space and functional requirements including utilization needs; reviews proposed equipment lists and facility plans with user groups to ensure architectural, electrical and/or plumbing plan support such equipment; performs site inspections to ensure proper dimensional specifications and services have been provided for equipment installations.

Works with external consultants to identify specific manufacturers and equipment models to ensure established standard, user needs and safety protocols are maintains during equipment selection, installation and user training; integrates existing equipment inventory into room standards and tailors equipment requirements to the specific department