Biomedical Specialist 3, Hoxworth Blood Center
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Job Overview
Hoxworth Blood Center (HBC), University of Cincinnati, was founded in 1938 and serves more than 30 hospitals in 18 counties in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana. Annually, Hoxworth collects more than 100,000 units of blood from local donors to help save the lives of patients in area hospitals. Hoxworth Blood Center: Saving Lives Close to Home. HBC is located within the College of Medicine and is the only Regional Blood Center owned and operated by a University in United States.
The University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Hoxworth Blood Center, is recruiting a Biomedical Specialist 3 to ensure that organizational processes, procedures, and quality control activities are compliant with accreditation and regulatory standards.
Saving lives is no easy task, but at Hoxworth Blood Center, it's what we do every day and we're looking for positive, professional individuals to join our team and help advance our lifesaving mission. If you're a detail-oriented individual with a passion for making a difference in the lives of others, then we invite you to apply for a position at Hoxworth Blood Center.
Essential Functions
- Perform organizational equipment validation, requalification, and quality control in accordance with accepted standards and regulations for major critical storage and non-storage equipment.
- Provide organizational support for preventive maintenance and calibrations on storage equipment and devices.
- Support management with equipment related investigations of advance complexity, repairs, installations, validations, requalifications, documentation, and record management and retention.
- Assist with organizational quality and variance programs. Adhere to good manufacturing practices (GMP) guidelines.
- Maintain technical competency to cover equipment quality control as needed. Develop new technologies, training and maintenance processes.
- Assist Manager with recognizing, monitoring and evaluating technical, instrumental or physical conditions or problems.
- Assist with monitoring and evaluating QC related procedures. Establish and maintain equipment SOPs as needed.
- Responsible for the centralized equipment management program ensuring compliance with current standards and regulations.
- Support Hoxworth Blood Center’s safety, cGMP and Quality Plan.
- May provide direct and/or indirect supervision to exempt and non-exempt staff (i.e., hiring/firing, performance evaluations, disciplinary action, approve time off, etc.).
- Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.
Required Education
- Associate’s Degree.
- Nine (9) years of relevant work experience and/or other specialized training can be used in lieu of education requirement.
Required Experience
- Seven (7) years of equipment repair, preventive maintenance and quality control.
- Donor center or blood bank equipment functionality/use experience.
- Advanced troubleshooting and equipment management.
- Working knowledge of Metrology (pipette, weight, scale QC).
Additional Qualifications Considered
Licenses or certifications relevant to job requirements.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
- Sitting - Continuously
- Repetitive hand motion (such as typing) - Continuously
- Hearing, listening - Continuously
- Talking - Continuously
- Standing - Often
- Walking - Often
- Bending - Seldom
- Stooping - Seldom
- Climbing stairs/ladders - Seldom
- Kneeling, squatting - Seldom
- Crouching - Seldom
- Crawling - Seldom
- Reaching overhead - Seldom
- Pulling, pushing - Seldom
- Lifting - up to 20 pounds - Seldom
Compensation and Benefits
UC offers an exceptional benefits package designed to support your well-being, financial security, and work-life balance. (UC Benefits Link) Highlights include:
Comprehensive Tuition Remission
UC provides tuition remission for you and your eligible dependents, covering tuition costs for nearly all undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the university.
Robust Retirement Plans
As a UC employee, you won’t contribute to Social Security (except Medicare). Instead, you’ll choose between state pension plans (OPERS, STRS) or an Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP), with UC contributing 14–18% of your salary based on position.
Real Work-Life Balance
UC prioritizes work-life balance with a generous time-off policy, including:
Vacation and sick time
11 paid holidays and additional end-of-year paid time off (Winter Season Days)
6 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents
Additional Benefits Include:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Flexible spending accounts & wellness programs
- Professional development & mentorship opportunities
To learn more about why UC is a great place to work, please visit our careers page at https://www.uc.edu/careers.html
UC is an E-Verify employer. If hired into this position, you will be required to provide satisfactory proof of employment eligibility by providing acceptable, original forms of identification for employment verification via the Federal I-9 employment verification process. A list of acceptable documents can be seen here: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents
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Biomedical Specialist 3, Hoxworth Blood Center
Cincinnati, OH, US
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