Medical Engineering Technician - St Woolos Hospital in Newport

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Medical Engineering Technician to join our dynamic EBME (Electronic and Biomedical Engineering) team. This is an excellent opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring safe, effective, and reliable medical equipment across the Health Board. You will carry out a wide range of technical activities, including the repair, maintenance, calibration, and testing of patient‑connected medical devices. Working both independently and as part of a team, you will support clinical services by ensuring equipment is safe, compliant, and fully operational. If you are passionate about medical technology and want to make a real difference in healthcare, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job:

• Repair, service and calibrate a diverse range of electro‑medical devices
• Perform acceptance testing, commissioning, configuration, and electrical safety testing
• Deliver and maintain planned preventive maintenance (PPM) programmes
• Prioritise and organise daily workloads based on clinical need
• Maintain accurate records using equipment management systems
• Provide technical advice and guidance to clinical and non‑clinical staff
• Support clinical training for new medical devices
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives and departmental development

You will also be required to work both in the EBME workshop and across clinical sites, handling specialised equipment and tools.

Qualifications And Knowledge:

Essential criteria:

• BTEC HNC / HND or Degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent level of knowledge in a subject appropriate to the area of work.

Desirable criteria:

• Recognised Qualification in Medical Engineering.
• Knowledge acquired through attendance of manufacturer’s medical equipment training courses.
• Supplementary training courses specific to medical devices.

Experience:

Essential criteria:

• Relevant hands‑on experience in repair and maintenance of electro‑medical devices.
• Competent, capable and able to perform electro‑medical equipment servicing safely and effectively.
• Experience within the NHS.
• Good understanding and significant experience of servicing and maintaining a wide range of electro‑medical devices following a recognised period of training.
• Experience in electrical safety testing practices.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience in planning maintenance and repair of PPM (Planned Preventive Maintenance).
• Experience of Medical device/equipment management databases.

Skills and Attributes:

Essential criteria:

• Knowledge of electronic systems and fault‑finding on complex equipment to component level.
• Calibration techniques using specialised test equipment.
• A good knowledge of computer database and management systems.
• Ability to follow departmental and Trust procedures.
• Good organisational skills.

Desirable criteria:

• A broader knowledge of computer database and management systems.
• Ability to create, modify and distribute information using preferred software packages.
• Welsh language skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.

Other:

Essential criteria:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
• Ability to take direction and training.
• Plan own work with consideration to clinical needs.
• Flexible to meet the needs of the service.
• Ability to be independently mobile.

Desirable criteria:

• Willingness to undertake training and learn new skills.
• Ability to identify service demands and have the self‑motivation to complete the task.