MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FABRICATOR - 01212025-64705

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITY AND AGING, SEATING AND POSITIONING CLINICS, DAVIDSON COUNTY

Background checks and fingerprinting will be required prior to employment.

Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

Overview

Responsibilities

1. Receives paperwork from clinician in order to repair, modify, and fabricate custom alternative equipment to meet positioning needs of consumer.
2. Obtains material lists for specific projects from inventory/manufacturing system to document materials used for inventory control.

Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings:

1. Visually inspects and monitors inventory/non-inventory item quantities during material issues and follows facility notification protocol to minimize delay in daily operations and to prevent shortages.

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People:

1. Assess the quality of materials to ensure safety and durability according to set equipment standards.

Processing Information:

1. Reviews and verifies plans with clinician prior to construction of custom equipment.
2. Perform calculations to determine the amount of materials used for a project.

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:

1. Evaluates work orders to ensure compliance with facility policy and procedures.

Thinking Creatively:

1. Develops designs or creates new systems or products to meet the needs of the consumer and improves daily operations within the facility.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:

1. Sets priorities on the work to be done so that the more urgent and important tasks are given immediate attention.

Performing General Physical Activities:

1. Moves and lifts materials while performing daily work tasks.

Handling and Moving Objects:

1. Moves and lifts materials while performing daily work tasks following safe body mechanics.

Controlling Machines and Processes:

1. Safely operates general shop tools and equipment during the fabrication, modification, and repair of custom equipment.

Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:

1. Operate a variety of motorized vehicles according to state policy.

Interacting with Computers:

1. Use computers and computer systems to enter data and process information.

Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment:

1. Services, maintains, repairs and adjusts assistive technology equipment to ensure safe and proper operation for the consumer.
2. Services, maintains, repairs and adjusts general shop tools and equipment to ensure safe and proper operations.

Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment:

1. Services, maintains, repairs and adjusts general shop tools and equipment to ensure safe and proper operations.
2. Services, maintains, repairs and adjusts assistive technology equipment to ensure safe and proper operations.

Documenting/Recording Information:

1. Documents time and materials according to facility and departmental policy and procedures.

Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:

1. Provide information to supervisors and co-workers to ensure effective and efficient communication.

Communicating with Persons outside Organization:

1. Communicates with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, and other external sources to ensure questions are directed to appropriate individuals and services rendered are customer focused.

Coaching and Developing Others:

1. Mentors assigned peers by providing feedback and information on organizational culture, policies and procedures, workflow and chain of command, task prioritization, proper documentation, use of systems and available functionality, and how to most effectively perform assigned tasks.

Performing Administrative Activities:

1. Enter personal time and leave/overtime requests into the appropriate databases as required; responds to email, phone calls, and other correspondence as required.

Competencies (KSA's)

1. Creativity
2. Learning on the Fly
3. Priority Setting
4. Action Oriented
5. Perseverance
6. Boss Relationships
7. Customer Focus
8. Patience
9. Self-Development
10. Self-Knowledge

Knowledge:

1. Building and Construction
2. Mathematics
3. Mechanical

Skills:

1. Active Learning
2. Active Listening
3. Critical Thinking
4. Learning Strategies
5. Reading Comprehension
6. Writing
7. Instructing
8. Service Orientation
9. Equipment Maintenance
10. Equipment Selection
11. Operation and Control
12. Operation Monitoring
13. Repairing
14. Technology Design
15. Troubleshooting
16. Management of Resources

Abilities:

1. Fluency of Ideas
2. Mathematical Reasoning
3. Number Facility
4. Originality
5. Problem Sensitivity
6. Selective Attention
7. Visualization
8. Written Comprehension
9. Written Expression
10. Arm-Hand Steadiness
11. Control Precision
12. Finger Dexterity
13. Manual Dexterity
14. Multi-limb Coordination
15. Rate Control
16. Reaction Time
17. Response Orientation
18. Extent Flexibility
19. Gross Body Coordination
20. Gross Body Equilibrium
21. Depth Perception
22. Near Vision

Tools & Equipment

1. Basic Shop Tools (saws, drills, sanders, routers)
2. Basic Hand Tools
3. Sewing Machine
4. Air Tools
5. Staple Gun