Biomedical Engineer

About this role

Ifakara Health Institute is seeking a Biomedical Engineer to support its Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Tanzania. The program improves maternal and newborn care through lifesaving technologies, capacity building, education, and a sustainable equipment distribution network. The engineer will focus on improving the availability and reliability of medical equipment in partnership with the Medical Stores Department, local distributors, regional biomedical engineers, and facility biomedical engineers. The day-to-day work involves planning, tracking, and confirming equipment distribution and installation at implementing sites.

The post holder will verify deliveries, quantities, and specifications, provide site-level status updates to the Biomedical Engineer Coordinator, and follow up on installation, commissioning, and handover. They will check delivery notes, installation reports, and handover records, confirm equipment registration, and monitor planned preventive and corrective maintenance through the Medical Equipment and Infrastructure Management Information System. The engineer will flag overdue maintenance, repeat failures, and high downtime, follow up with regional biomedical engineers, and help resolve delayed repairs, spare parts gaps, and vendor support needs. Other duties include data quality checks, reporting, procurement advice, training, donor reporting, regulatory compliance, and mentoring regional and facility-based biomedical engineers.

A bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering or a related engineering field is required, along with at least two to three years of experience in medical equipment management covering corrective and planned preventive maintenance. Candidates need experience with computerized maintenance management or medical equipment information systems and proven work with ministries of health, NGOs, or international health programs. Strong communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, data analysis, reporting, Excel, dashboard, and Microsoft Office skills are essential, as are English and Kiswahili and willingness to travel. Preferred skills include engineering and design software such as Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, LabVIEW, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MATLAB, and Ansys.

The full-time post is based in Tanzania and offers competitive remuneration under IHI salary scales. No application deadline or route is stated.