Director of Biomedical Engineering

Overview

The Director of Biomedical Engineering serves as a trusted leader and steward of medical technology, ensuring our caregivers are equipped with safe, reliable, and high-quality equipment to serve patients with compassion and excellence. Guided by our mission to improve the health and lives of the communities we serve, this role partners with clinical, operational, and regional leaders to thoughtfully manage the full lifecycle of medical equipment—balancing innovation, regulatory integrity, and responsible resource stewardship.

The director of biomedical engineering and capital asset planning/management is responsible for
1) overseeing the procurement and contracting of the biomedical engineering outsourced services and original equipment manufacturer service contracts and
2) overseeing medical equipment capital lifecycle and spend aggregation for better value including medical equipment capital negotiations, medical equipment retirement recommendations, and category/sub-category standardization efforts.

Biomedical Engineering Services

• Provide oversight to outsourced biomedical engineering vendor as a functional expert
• Provide and keep abreast of the biomedical equipment management standards of The Joint Commission, CMS, and other applicable regulatory bodies
• Establishes key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure vendor performance. Prepares regular reports on vendor performance, customer feedback, and KPIs for senior management in FMOLHS markets
• Ensures timely start and end of service contracts when medical equipment is replaced
• Reviews invoices for appropriate charges per the contract
• Collaborate with hospital and clinic department leaders on the appropriate service level and vendor for both new and existing medical equipment
• Negotiate service contracts with outsourced biomedical engineering vendor and original equipment manufacturers for both installed base equipment and point of sale service contracts from original equipment manufacturers during capital acquisition

Medical Equipment Capital Asset Planning/Management

• Develop multi-year medical equipment capital acquisition & replacement plan
• Create multi-year medical capital equipment acquisition plan by partnering with the regional market leaders to aggregate regional plans and take advantage of our collective size when going to market for new medical capital equipment
• Collaborate and communicate with key regional stakeholders on an on-going basis to ensure coordination and support
• Implement total cost of ownership framework for medical equipment capital acquisitions
• Develop and implement total cost of ownership model to provide the basis for medical equipment acquisition decision making
• Develop and implement ongoing utilization and biomedical engineering cost dashboard for key medical capital equipment categories
• Partner with clinical team members to manage supply utilization related to the medical capital equipment
• Lead medical equipment capital negotiations
• Serves as system leader and chief negotiator for capital medical equipment
• Leverages GPO agreements and group buy opportunities for system benefit

• Minimum 10 years of leadership experience with a background in clinical engineering
• Bachelor  Degree required - Biomedical Engineering or related field
• Other
  
  Skills and Abilities
  
  - Advanced communication and interpersonal skills;
  In depth knowledge of standards established by the Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies;
  In-depth knowledge of many different types of patient care equipment