Specialist, Medical Assets

The Specialist, Medical Assets is responsible for supporting the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of biomedical, diagnostic, and clinical equipment used across Carnival’s fleet and shoreside medical facilities. The role works closely with shipboard teams, vendors, manufacturers, and internal stakeholders to help ensure equipment readiness and regulatory compliance. This role serves as a primary point of contact for medical asset coordination including inventory management, service documentation, triage of equipment-related support requests, and logistics support.

The Specialist, Medical Assets will be responsible for the supervision of the company's land based medical maintenance depot, ensuring it is fully stocked, and assets can be effectively received and dispatched.  It will include performing pre-deployment checks of stored equipment and preventive maintenance where applicable. This role will provide Tier II support as needed, perform review and resolution of preventative maintenance findings, develop and maintain in-depth troubleshooting documents, device reference sheets, and up-to-date library of equipment manuals. The Specialist, Medical Assets will complete end-user and available support training and certification available from manufacturers and/or third parties.

Essential Functions:

• Preventative Maintenance Program: Assist Medical Asset Manager with the preventive maintenance program, ensuring all fleet routine medical, radiology and oxygen equipment maintenances are completed with finalized reporting and actions.  Ensure proper documentation of all maintenance, inspections, and repairs are recorded in company equipment management system. Identify patterns in findings and aging equipment requiring escalation and perform fleetwide analysis as necessary to support in capital planning.  Support compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and internal audit requirements related to the preventative maintenance program.

• Troubleshooting Support & Corrective Maintenance: Manage the intake, triage, and prioritization of medical asset tickets and service requests, including maintenance of platform. Provide troubleshooting support for equipment-related issues within defined scope and authority, using technical references, service history, and operational judgment to guide next steps and coordinate escalation or vendor involvement where needed.  Create and update medical equipment basic troubleshooting guidelines and device specific reference sheets.

• Medical Maintenance Depot Management: Operate and maintain appropriate equipment and supplies stock levels, ensuring rapid response time for device replacements while maintaining accurate inventory and appropriate reserves of critical equipment and accessories. Identify parts and accessories to be stocked in depot, maintain accurate records and perform periodic reviews to adjust PAR levels and stocks as needed to adjust for fleet demands.  Maintain an optimized inventory management process to mitigate cost by maintaining supplier negotiations and waste reduction.

• Equipment Support & Collaboration: Assist with testing and commissioning of new medical devices using appropriate manufacturer guidelines.  Assist with asset safety testing, calibration, and performance assurance on assigned biomedical and clinical equipment under supervision and within define scope.  Provide basic technical support and guidance to clinical staff on proper equipment use and care.

• Vendor Relations & Logistical Support: Engage with biomedical vendors and manufacturers to coordinate device support, repairs, replacements, and training as needed. Engage with internal partners to execute timely procurement and delivery of medical equipment and develop streamlined processes, systems, and databases. 

• Training & Professional Development: Participate in required training, vendor courses, and continuing education to build technical competency. Support inservice education sessions in collaboration with L&D as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Scope: This role supports shoreside medical and health facilities and contributes directly to patient and employee safety, regulatory compliance, equipment reliability, and continuity of medical operations. The role has localized operational impact with potential exposure to enterprise‑wide equipment standards and initiatives.

• Problem solving: Applies structured troubleshooting techniques to identify root causes of basic equipment issues. Resolves routine technical problems using standard procedures, manufacturer documentation, and guidance from manager and the product manufacture, escalating complex issues as appropriate.

• Impact: Ensures medical equipment is safe, functional, and available for clinical use. Contributes to quality of care, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation across Carnival health operations.

• Leadership: This role has no direct reports but requires professionalism, accountability, and effective collaboration with cross‑functional teams including clinicians, vendors, and engineering partners.

Qualifications:

• Associate’s Degree in Biomedical Equipment Technology, Electronics, or a related technical field OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Bachelor's Degree Preferred

• Foundational experience or training in biomedical, electronic, or electromechanical equipment maintenance

• Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, schematics, and service documentation

• Familiarity with basic test equipment (e.g., multimeters, safety analyzers)

• Experience working in a healthcare or clinical environment preferred

Travel: Less than 25% with shipboard travel likely

Work Conditions: Work beyond normal business hours or on weekends may be required occasionally to support business needs, projects, or operations.

Physical Demands: Requires regular movement throughout company facilities.

This position is classified as “in-office.”  As an in-office role, it requires employees to work from a designated Carnival office in South Florida Monday through Thursday each week. Employees may work from their homes on Fridays.  Candidates must be located in (or willing to relocate to) the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area. 

Offers to selected candidates will be made on a fair and equitable basis, taking into account specific job-related skills and experience.   

At Carnival, your total rewards package is much more than your base salary. All non-sales roles participate in an annual cash bonus program, while sales roles have an incentive plan. Director and above roles may also be eligible to participate in Carnival’s discretionary equity incentive plan. Plus, Carnival provides comprehensive and innovative benefits to meet your needs, including: 

• Health Benefits: 
  • Cost-effective medical, dental and vision plans 
  • Employee Assistance Program and other mental health resources 
  • Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability coverage  
• Financial Benefits: 
  • 401(k) plan that includes a company match 
  • Employee Stock Purchase plan 
• Paid Time Off 
  • Holidays – All full-time and part-time with benefits employees receive days off for 8 company-wide holidays, plus 2 additional floating holidays to be taken at the employee’s discretion.  
  • Vacation Time – All full-time employees at the manager and below level start with 14 days/year; director and above level start with 19 days/year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 84 hours/year.  All employees gain additional vacation time with further tenure. 
  • Sick Time – All full-time employees receive 80 hours of sick time each year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 60 hours each year.   
• Other Benefits 
  • Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises, plus special rates for family and friends 
  • Personal and professional learning and development resources including tuition reimbursement  
  • On-site Fitness center at our Miami campus 

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