Deputy Manager - Biomedical Engineering

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Key Responsibilities

1. Team Handling & Department Management

• Lead and supervise the Biomedical Engineering team responsible for diagnostic laboratory equipment.
• Allocate daily work, preventive maintenance activities, breakdown calls, and service priorities to team members.
• Monitor team performance, productivity, attendance, and response time.
• Conduct regular team meetings, technical reviews, and performance assessments.
• Identify training requirements and provide/arrange technical training for engineers and technicians.
• Ensure adequate manpower coverage for critical laboratory operations and emergency breakdowns.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, preventive maintenance, and timely service.

2. Preventive Maintenance

• Develop, implement, and monitor preventive maintenance (PM) schedules for all diagnostic and laboratory equipment.
• Ensure timely completion of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual maintenance activities as applicable.
• Monitor PM compliance and ensure maintenance records are complete and properly documented.
• Identify recurring equipment failures and implement corrective/preventive actions.
• Coordinate calibration, validation, performance verification, and safety checks of equipment.
• Ensure critical equipment is maintained according to manufacturer recommendations and departmental SOPs.

3. Breakdown & Corrective Maintenance

• Supervise and coordinate timely resolution of equipment breakdowns.
• Establish response and resolution timelines based on equipment criticality.
• Troubleshoot equipment issues and support the team in identifying root causes.
• Escalate critical breakdowns to OEM/authorized service providers whenever required.
• Analyze breakdown trends and implement measures to minimize downtime and repeat failures.
• Maintain equipment downtime records and prepare periodic performance reports.

4. Diagnostic Laboratory Equipment Management

• Ensure availability and functionality of critical laboratory equipment such as:
• Biochemistry analyzers
• Hematology analyzers
• Immunoassay analyzers
• Microbiology equipment
• Molecular diagnostic/PCR systems
• Centrifuges
• Incubators
• Refrigerators/freezers
• Autoclaves
• Water purification systems
• UPS and other equipment supporting laboratory operations
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, acceptance testing, relocation, and decommissioning of equipment.
• Ensure equipment is available for clinical use with minimum operational downtime.

5. AMC / CMC & Vendor Management

• Coordinate AMC/CMC activities and ensure service visits are completed as per contractual terms.
• Monitor vendor performance, service response time, spare-parts availability, and equipment uptime.
• Verify service reports, quotations, invoices, and replacement of spare parts.
• Coordinate with OEMs and authorized service providers for critical equipment.
• Support contract renewal, technical evaluation, and vendor performance assessment.
• Ensure warranty and service-contract benefits are utilized effectively.

6. Calibration & Quality Compliance

• Maintain an updated asset register containing equipment details, serial numbers, installation dates, warranty/AMC/CMC status, and maintenance history.
• Ensure timely calibration and certification of applicable equipment.
• Maintain documentation required for NABL, ISO, and other applicable quality/accreditation requirements.
• Support internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of observations.
• Ensure equipment-related SOPs, checklists, service reports, calibration certificates, and maintenance records are properly maintained.

7. Equipment Lifecycle & Asset Management

• Assess equipment condition, age, utilization, repair history, and replacement requirements.
• Support preparation of annual CAPEX/OPEX proposals for equipment procurement and replacement.
• Participate in technical evaluation of new equipment and vendor demonstrations.
• Assist in installation qualification, operational qualification, performance verification, and user acceptance, as applicable.
• Recommend replacement of obsolete, unreliable, or high-maintenance equipment.

8. Safety & Risk Management

• Ensure biomedical equipment is operated and maintained safely.
• Identify equipment-related risks and implement appropriate mitigation measures.
• Ensure electrical safety, grounding, UPS/power-backup requirements, and environmental conditions are monitored for critical equipment.
• Support incident investigation related to equipment failure and patient/user safety.
• Ensure compliance with infection-control and laboratory safety requirements where applicable.

9. MIS & Performance Monitoring

• Prepare periodic reports on:
• Preventive maintenance compliance
• Breakdown frequency
• Equipment uptime/downtime
• Mean time to repair (MTTR)
• Mean time between failures (MTBF)
• AMC/CMC status
• Calibration status
• Critical equipment availability
• Spare-parts consumption
• Vendor performance
• Present equipment performance and maintenance status to management.
• Identify trends and implement continuous-improvement initiatives.