What are the responsibilities and job description for the Control Engineer position at UPMC?
The Control Engineer assists the professional staff in operating, inspecting, maintaining, and conducting basic and/or running repairs on all hospital stationary equipment. This position will also install new equipment under the supervision of the Chief Operating Engineer. The Control Engineer is responsible for ensuring the continuous safe operation of all stationary equipment in Washington Health System and its properties.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures the continuous safe operation of all stationary equipment in Washington Health System and its properties.
- Inspects, maintains, diagnoses, and makes repairs to Stationary Equipment pertaining to heating, air conditioning, steam, refrigeration, and distribution systems in the varied Washington Health System buildings.
- Verifies, corrects, and documents conditions pertaining to the above-mentioned equipment.
- Maintains prescribed feed water control levels and controls house temperatures.
- Maintains integrity of medical gases such as: Clinical Air, Vacuum, Oxygen, and Nitrous Oxide.
- Observes on a regular basis meter and gauges and takes appropriate action for safe operation and documents discrepancies in readings.
- Performs periodic inspection of mechanical rooms throughout the hospital to ensure proper operation of heating, air-conditioning, ventilation, chiller water, and medical support equipment (i.e., vacuum pumps, medical air compressors).
- Records and documents temperatures and humidity readings.
- Services and maintains filter assemblies.
- Answers Maintenance phone calls in the absence of other maintenance personnel.
- Operates cooling tower, checks refrigerants for proper levels, and cleans cooling tower when necessary.
- Regenerates water softener and introduces chemicals to the cooling tower system as prescribed.
- Performs various pipe, valve, and accessory repairs.
- Maintains boiler, cooling tower, and closed loop water chemistry levels.
- Performs preventive, urgent, corrective, routine, and requisitioned maintenance on plant equipment.
- Maintains and records ventilation and humidity temperatures within environmental and infection control limits.
- Visits and records temperatures in such critical areas as: Kitchen Refrigeration, Blood Bank and Morgue.
- Repairs and maintains Pneumatic Tube System.
- Notifies Department Manager or Vice President Information & Ancillary Services, immediately of any involvement in motor vehicle incidents that could impact the employee's ability to be included on Washington Health Systems automobile insurance policy. Such incidents are on the attached list and are known as Tier D Violations.
