Together with the ICRC Water and Habitat maintenance responsible, and the hospital maintenance team, to ensure a comprehensive evaluation of the current situation concerning the functioning and maintenance of biomedical equipments.

Work
• Fixing broken equipment:
• Transformer on incubator (Air Shields Vickers)
• Fans on incubators (MediPrema)
• Lab centrifuge door switch
• 2x baby dopplers
• Surgical cauterizers (Japanese)
• Various O2 concentrators
• Visit Kabul repair workshops where medical equipment is sent for repair and assess their capabilities and make a recommendation on whether it is useful/worthwhile to continue to send equipment for repair there. Find workshops where equipment can/should be sent.
• Design work with OT design team on sterilization equipment
  
  Stock Ordering
• Order voltage stabilizers for all equipment sensitive to voltage fluctuations
• Order spares and consumables for the present equipment in Mirwais such as Oxygen concentrators, pulse oxymeters, suction machines and other essential equipment in the hospital (X-Rays, Sterilizers, OT equipment etc.).
  
  Training
• Training hospital maintenance staff on performing complex medical equipment maintenance and repair.
• Prepare the documentation that the WatHab maintenance technician can use for training.
  
  Scheduling
• Building a maintenance schedule for complex medical equipment which the maintenance team can then follow
• Building a record keeping system for the maintenance system
  
  Selection requirements

• Biomedical Engineer, with sound technical expertise in selecting, installing and managing medical equipment at hospital level
• Technical skills in maintenance repair of bio medical equipment
• Experienced in teaching and training
• Ability to put forward in a clear and objective way the options proposed
• Excellent command of English both oral and written
• Driving licence (manual – automatic is not sufficient)

• Good coordination and communication skills
• Flexible, diplomatic and able to work as part of a team
• Ability and willingness to adapt to Afghan culture, security constraints and security/living restrictions imposed
• Motivated by humanitarian action
• Computer skills

Departure: 15.10.2009

Application deadline: 31.10.2009