Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is the leading health innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi and a regional destination for healthcare access. We bring together the top clinicians, advanced technology and innovative research to ensure our patients receive the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible. 

This commitment is grounded in a history of more than 100 years and reflective of our forward-thinking strategic vision aimed at transforming healthcare. 

As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we provide a compassionate circle of care to everyone while giving special attention to those most in need. The care we administer is driven by listening to our patients and putting their needs first. Through listening, we can truly understand what’s going on, hear what the patient’s goals are, and most importantly, discover together how we can help. 

Since our founding, we’ve grown to become one of the largest health systems in the region, providing care to almost half of Louisiana, and serving Mississippi's largest metropolitan area in Jackson.  

Within the regions we serve, we operate major hospitals as well as dozens of community clinics and specialty centers to care for patients with a wide range of illnesses and health needs. Because of our size and strategic partnerships with local organizations, we can pool resources, share costs, learn from each other and be more efficient, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges. 

Following in the footsteps of the Franciscan Sisters and looking to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by “going where we are called.” 

Our team members are more than just their job descriptions and titles, and we provide a unique Total Rewards package to meet the needs of team members and their families: compensation, benefits, personal growth and development, recognition, health and well-being, and purpose.

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System

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The Director of Biomedical Engineering serves as a trusted leader and steward of medical technology, ensuring our caregivers are equipped with safe, reliable, and high-quality equipment to serve patients with compassion and excellence. Guided by our mission to improve the health and lives of the communities we serve, this role partners with clinical, operational, and regional leaders to thoughtfully manage the full lifecycle of medical equipment—balancing innovation, regulatory integrity, and responsible resource stewardship.

The director of biomedical engineering and capital asset planning/management is responsible for 1) overseeing the procurement and contracting of the biomedical engineering outsourced services and original equipment manufacturer service contracts and 2) overseeing medical equipment capital lifecycle and spend aggregation for better value including medical equipment capital negotiations, medical equipment retirement recommendations, and category/sub-category standardization efforts.

**Job Responsibilities **

Biomedical Engineering Services

Provide oversight to outsourced biomedical engineering vendor as a functional expert

Provides and keeps abreast of the biomedical equipment management standards of The Joint Commission, CMS, and other applicable regulatory bodies

Establishes key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure vendor performance. Prepares regular reports on vendor performance, customer feedback, and KPIs for senior management in FMOLHS markets

Ensures timely start and end of service contracts when medical equipment is replaced

Reviews invoices for appropriate charges per the contract

Collaborate with hospital and clinic department leaders on the appropriate service level and vendor for both new and existing medical equipment

Negotiate service contracts with outsourced biomedical engineering vendor and original equipment manufacturers for both installed base equipment and point of sale service contracts from original equipment manufacturers during capital acquisition

Medical Equipment Capital Asset Planning/Management

Develop multi-year medical equipment capital acquisition & replacement plan

Create multi-year medical capital equipment acquisition plan by partnering with the regional market leaders to aggregate regional plans and take advantage of our collective size when going to market for new medical capital equipment

Collaborate and communicate with key regional stakeholders on an on-going basis to ensure coordination and support

Implement total cost of ownership framework for medical equipment capital acquisitions

- Develop and implement total cost of ownership model to provide the basis for medical equipment acquisition decision making

- Develop and implement ongoing utilization and biomedical engineering cost dashboard for key medical capital equipment categories

Partner with clinical team members to manage supply utilization related to the medical capital equipment

Lead medical equipment capital negotiations

Serves as system leader and chief negotiator for capital medical equipment

Leverages GPO agreements and group buy opportunities for system benefit

**Qualifications **

Minimum 10 years of leadership experience with a background in clinical engineering

Bachelor's Degree required - Biomedical Engineering or related field

Other Skills and Abilities- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills; In depth knowledge of standards established by the Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies; In-depth knowledge of many different types of patient care equipment

Director of Biomedical Engineering

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