Lead Equipment Tech - evening shifts

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Evening - 08 Hour (United States of America)

When hospital teams need equipment fast-and need it right-you're the one they rely on. As a Lead Equipment Tech, you set the pace, guide the team, and ensure patient care never slows down due to missing, delayed, or unsafe equipment.

In this onsite, Palo Alto-based role at Stanford Health Care, you serve as the day-to-day lead for Equipment Techs, overseeing equipment flow, cleanliness, and readiness across inpatient units, ICUs, and the Emergency Department. You organize daily workflows, triage equipment issues, and model standard work while supporting transport and operational needs in a fast-paced clinical environment.

This is a lead role without direct people management, ideal for someone who leads through example, accountability, and collaboration.

• Coordinate and prioritize daily equipment distribution, cleaning, and staging activities
• Serve as a goto resource for Equipment Techs, supporting workflow organization and problem-solving
• Identify nonfunctional equipment, initiate work orders, and coordinate repairs
• Ensure accurate documentation, chain of custody, and use of approved systems
• Communicate professionally with clinical teams, patients, and visitors

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Patient Equipment Management Services (PEMS) plays a vital role in ensuring the seamless flow of patient equipment throughout the hospital, providing reliable, well-maintained resources. Through expert cleaning, maintenance, repair, and timely distribution, this team upholds the highest standards of safety, readiness, and support for efficient, high-quality patient care across all departments.

Under the direction of the Supervisor and/or the Manager of the Patient Transport and Patient Equipment Management Systems (PEMS), the Lead Equipment Tech supports the department by overseeing unit-to-unit provision, cleaning and disinfection, distribution, and basic triage of patient care equipment across inpatient units, intensive care units (ICU), the Emergency Department (ED), and other areas. Serves as a lead for PEMS technicians, organizing workflow, transporting specimens, ensuring adherence to standard work, and upholding SHC safety, quality, and C-I-CARE standards.

This role adheres to Stanford Health Care (SHC) policies, the Joint Commission (TJC), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), infection-prevention standards, and C-I-CARE to ensure safe operations, patient care delivery and service excellence.

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• Adhere to SHC safety guidelines, dress code, badge policies, HIPAA, and C-I-CARE.
• Follow standard work documents including manufacturer-recommended cleaning procedures using approved disinfectants.
• Maintain and organize equipment storage and PEMS work areas.
• Ensure daily job flows, standards work and required documentation.
• Clean, pick up, distribute, and store routine inventory items per guidelines.
• Maintain department equipment per SHC guidelines.
• Remove non-functional equipment, apply red tags, initiate work orders, and coordinate repair.
• Search units/hospital for missing unit-specific equipment.
• Organize soiled utility rooms and coordinate pickups via FSRC.
• Lead daily activities of PEMS technicians and set priorities.
• Ensure SHC approved software, hardware workflows and timelines are met.
• Communicate clearly and professionally with staff, patients, and visitors.
• Solve customer service complaints and issues promptly or elevate to department management.
• Contribute to unit, department, and hospital goals.
• Represent the department at huddles/briefings when requested.
• Enforce appropriate use of breaks and limits on personal device use per policy; maintain confidentiality and data integrity in all s