Engineer for Transfusion Medicine, Academic Hospital

We are Akademiska sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother undergoes surgery, a colleague is hailed as a hero. With us, you will experience both tough trials and fantastic events, in a strong community with colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

Hemotherapy is part of the Academic Laboratory and the Section of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine. The Academic Laboratory is responsible for medical diagnostics, counseling, research, development, treatment, and education. Our customers are primarily located in Uppsala County and in our Central Swedish region. In total, we have approximately 500 employees with operations at Akademiska sjukhuset and the Hospital in Enköping, as well as in our blood donation trailer and blood bus.

The Department of Transfusion Medicine is responsible for ensuring the blood supply in the Uppsala region and for dispensing the right blood to the right patient. Through donations at Akademiska sjukhuset and via our blood bus and blood donation trailer at numerous collection sites in the region and neighboring regions, we ensure the blood supply. At the transfusion medicine department, blood components are also produced and patient treatments using apheresis technology are performed. We are also the reference blood center in Sweden and ensure that transfers between our donor registers work correctly nationwide.

Your Role

At the transfusion medicine department, you are responsible for our integrations between our main database system, ProSang, and our various instruments. You are also responsible for the integrations from ProSang to other database systems. This is done in collaboration with the hospital's IT department and object specialists at the department.

As an engineer, you are also responsible for parts of our instruments. This includes, among other things, verifying and validating in consultation with the process manager and the responsible physician. You will also have contact with companies, IT, operations, and Medical Technology to ensure everything functions as it should.

You will act as the technical coordinator with our suppliers regarding technical questions relevant to the area of responsibility. This includes, among other things, being responsible for troubleshooting if needed.
Your role also includes extracting statistics from our programs.

You will participate in tenders and purchases, as well as the planning of new instruments for the operations.
Together with the responsible physician and process manager, you ensure that necessary documentation is established in our documentation system, Centuri, during new acquisitions or changes before instruments and methods are put into operation.

You also ensure that information and training regarding new working methods are communicated to relevant employees.

As we are an accredited operation, quality and safety are of utmost importance.

Your Qualifications

• An engineering degree or relevant post-secondary education in IT, technology, systems science, laboratory medicine, or other education/experience that the employer deems equivalent.
• Good system understanding and computer literacy are central to the role.
• Accustomed to working in a structured and documented manner.
• Experience working in accredited environments.
• Ability to understand operational workflows.
• Troubleshooting and support skills.
• Communication skills between IT, suppliers, and laboratory operations.
• Computer proficiency, preferably in Excel/SQL/R/SAS or similar.
• Attention to detail regarding validation, permissions, changes, and risk.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English.

The role of Engineer in Transfusion Medicine involves extensive collaboration with responsible persons within and outside the operation. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that you are collaborative and can adapt to different situations.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Meritorious Qualifications

• Experience with LIMS/laboratory systems.
• Experience working in component production or laboratories.
• System administration.
• Validated/regulatory environments.
• Statistics/data extraction.
• Technical support.
• Integrations or databases.

What We Offer

Permanent position, 100%. Start date by agreement. Working hours are 07:30-16:15. Evening shifts may occur on rare occasions. With us, you receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (Region Uppsala Benefits (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

Department Manager Sarah Ryner 018-611 41 91 or [email protected]

Union Representative Naturvetarna: Inga-Lill Sparr 018-611 41 62

Do you want to work with us?

Apply via the link below.

Read about employment terms and salary setting within Region Uppsala here: Become our new colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/)

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala assigns all permanent staff for military service based on the needs of the total defense. This entails no obligations for the individual employee in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a decision on employment, a check of the suspicion and criminal records will be conducted for all job seekers who, in the sought position, may come to work within psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care for addicts, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's efforts, and we decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales.