Area of Operations: Akademiska Laboratory
We are Akademiska Hospital – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we serve two million people in Central Sweden. Here, something is constantly happening – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you will experience both challenging trials and fantastic moments, in a strong community with colleagues. Welcome with your application!
Our Operations
Hemotherapy is part of Akademiska Laboratory and the Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine section. Akademiska Laboratory is responsible for medical diagnostics, consultation, research, development, treatment, and education. Our customers are primarily in Uppsala County and our Central Swedish region. In total, we have approximately 500 employees with operations at Akademiska Hospital and Lasarett in Enköping, as well as our blood donation trailer and mobile blood bank.
The Transfusion Medicine Department is responsible for ensuring the blood supply in the Uppsala region and distributing the right blood to the right patient. Through blood collection at Akademiska Hospital and via our mobile blood bank and blood donation trailer at multiple collection sites in the region and neighboring regions, we maintain the blood supply. Transfusion medicine also handles the production of blood components and patient treatments using apheresis techniques. We are also Sweden's reference blood center and ensure that transfers between our donor registries nationally function as intended.
Your Assignment
In transfusion medicine, you are responsible for our integrations between our main data system ProSang and our various instruments. You also oversee integrations from ProSang to other data systems. This occurs in collaboration with the hospital's IT department and object specialists in the department.
As an engineer, you are also responsible for parts of our instruments. This includes verifying and validating in consultation with the process manager and medical director. You also maintain contact with companies, IT, operations, and Medical Technology to ensure everything functions as it should.
You will serve as technical coordinator with our suppliers regarding technical matters relevant to your area of responsibility. This includes troubleshooting when needed.
Your assignment also includes generating statistics from our programs.
You will participate in procurements, purchasing, and 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 before new instruments and methods are deployed.
You also ensure that information and training on new working methods are communicated to relevant staff members.
Since we are an accredited operation, quality and safety are of utmost importance.
Your Qualifications
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 skills are central to the role.
• experienced in 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, supplier, and laboratory operations
• computer proficiency, preferably 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 at Transfusion Medicine involves considerable collaboration with responsible persons within and outside the operation. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that you work well with others and can adapt to different situations.
Personal suitability will be weighted heavily.
Meriting Qualifications
• experience with LIMS/laboratory systems
• experience working in component production or laboratory
• systems management
• validated/regulated environments
• statistics/data extraction
• technical support
• integrations or databases
We Offer
Permanent employment at 100%. Start date by agreement. Working hours are 07:30-16:15. Evening hours may occur on rare occasions. With us, you receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/).
Want to Know More?
Department Manager Sarah Ryner 018-611 41 91 or [email protected]
Object Specialist Anna-Lena Strömbäck 018-611 72 44 or
[email protected]
Process Manager Component Production Saowarak Chanaphan 018-6114176 or
[email protected]
Trade Union Representative Naturvetarna: Inga-Lill Sparr 018-6114162
Want to Work with Us?
Welcome to submit your application via the link below.
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We are Akademiska Hospital – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we serve two million people in Central Sweden. Here, something is constantly happening – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you will experience both challenging trials and fantastic moments, in a strong community with colleagues. Welcome with your application!
Our Operations
Hemotherapy is part of Akademiska Laboratory and the Clinical Immunology and…