Senior Technical Support Engineer – Mechanical

Job summary

The Medical Device Service support users of medical equipment across all of our hospital sites within the Northern Care Alliance.

Main duties:

You will have a key role in supporting the mechanical teams responsibility for the manufacture, maintenance, repair and sub-contractor management of medical equipment. This will Include first line support to users of medical equipment to optimise systems up time to gain maximum use of medical equipment.

Ideally, you will possess a minimum of HNC in mechanical engineering and have relevant experience since qualifying in the field of Mechanical Engineering. Ideally having knowledge in the application and repair on a wide range of mechanical equipment used in a hospital and community is essential although some specific training will be provided.

Training and opportunities to develop will be offered at a band 5 for an appropriate candidate who does not meet all the essential criteria.

**Please note that, for this post, you will be required to have obtained a full UK Driving Licence**

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist mechanical knowledge for the implementation and delivery of a long-term operational plan for cost effective and efficient management and deployment of safe medical devices across the care organisations. They will be working towards achieving compliance levels for medical device repair and maintenance including down time and ensure that systems are available to enable clinical teams to have insight into progress with maintenance and repair of their devices.

The ideal candidate will have experience in design, using CAD ideally and to produce products using mechanical workshop machinery such as milling machines, lathes, grinders, drills and other mechanical fabrication tools .

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values – care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.