Head - Biomedical Engineering

- B.Sc/M.Sc/PG in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other suitable engineering graduate degree from an accredited institute

- The Biomedical Engineering Department is fully responsible for the management and in-house maintenance of clinical and laboratory biomedical technologies,

- Ensure that it has an effective biomedical technology management program for all laboratory and clinical equipment at all field stations and project sites.

- Lead capacity development of biomedical technology management and maintenance programs with approved West African research partners.

- Maintain and improve current biomedical engineering services for the Unit's clinical service, research platform and external projects:

- Consult and plan pre-technology purchase for the laboratory, clinic, projects, and Grants Office as well as provide support to the Capital Equipment Committee towards implementation of the Unit's equipment programme.

- Manage service contracts and service support agreements.

- Manage service and training relationships with vendors and consultants.

- Manage the program's technical services (incoming inspection, installation and commissioning, preventive and corrective maintenance, inventory and inspection, decommissioning, retirement and donation)

- Supervise the program's technologists to deliver technical services and manage workshop and facilities themselves.

- Plan and manage technical and non-technical training for the program's technologists to ensure future sustainability.

- Supervise use of the equipment management database

- Improve communication between the biomedical engineering program and service users.

- Manage the biomedical engineering program budget.

- Work with senior laboratory and clinical staff to further standardize laboratory and clinical technologies. Improve biomedical engineering process quality:

- Ensure biomedical engineering policy and standard operating procedures (SOPs) are fully implemented and reviewed annually.

- Write and implement any additional biomedical engineering documentation as required.

- Develop and implement quality control activities for the equipment management database.

- Supervise senior technologists to develop competency assessments for all supported biomedical technologies.

- Assist in any audits, monitoring visits and assessments as required.