OR Equipment Coordinator

The OR Equipment Coordinator provides expert knowledge and coordination of surgical equipment in the operating room suite at Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital.

This is a full-time position with 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 6 AM - 2:30 PM, with no call required. You will be asked to scrub into cases as needed for lunch breaks or other staffing needs.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains a complete and accurate inventory of current equipment
• Maintains annual asset inventory
• Ensures that annual checks of protective imaging attire are completed
• Provides onsite troubleshooting of equipment in the operating room suite
• Maintains vendor and Supply Chain relationships and ensures equipment is available for cases
• Identifies potential equipment scheduling conflicts and assists management in resolving conflicts
• Assists management in the capital budget process by providing quotes in collaboration with the Supply Chain organisation for equipment and recommendations of equipment needed for operating rooms
• Assists in the training of staff on proper use of new and current operating room equipment
• Maintains inventory of equipment sent for repair and works with clinical engineering to ensure that equipment is repaired and validated correctly and in a timely manner
• Ensures that borrowed equipment is delivered and returned in a timely manner consistent with guidelines and expectations
• Scrubs assigned cases as needed
• May act as a Laser Safety Officer
• Completes other site-specific duties as delegated

Requirements:

• Current National OR Tech Certification (an active certification must be maintained)
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers
• Experience in a surgical setting and knowledge of surgical equipment
• Ability to assist with equipment issues
• Must be competent and proficient in either General Surgery and 2 specialty areas or All surgical procedures performed in the department

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification as a Laser Safety Officer (as applicable)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PeopleSoft, and capital budgeting software
• Ability to multitask and meet assigned deadlines
• Critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills and experience

Physical Demands:

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, sterile indicator tags, colours, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment and instruments with precision and accuracy
• Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment

Benefits: Our caregivers receive a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Salary: $35.60 - $54.93 per hour