Summary of Duties

To provide electrical and electronics expertise and leadership to the Radiation Treatment Program at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The Senior Electronics Technologist is responsible for evaluating and planning scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of medical linear accelerators; contributing to the Department’s quality assurance and radiation safety activities; and performing tasks related to preventative maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, and testing of radiation therapy equipment. The position reports to the Head of the Department of Medical Physics.

Responsibilities include preventive maintenance; morning equipment start-up; correcting equipment malfunctions; maintaining an accurate service record in compliance with regulations; maintaining a comprehensive spare parts inventory; repairing electrical and electronic equipment; designing and constructing specialized electronic equipment; gathering machine performance data; scheduling maintenance activities; and delegating allocating tasks to technologists as needed.

The Radiation Treatment Program has fourteen high-energy treatment units from both major vendors.

Qualifications/Skills

• Three-year diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology or equivalent
• Ten years’ experience with linear accelerator maintenance, preferably in a medical environment.
• Demonstrated effective leadership, supervision, problem solving, conflict resolution and decision making practices
• Experience working with other electronics technologists, mechanical technologists, and medical physicists
• Experience with radiation emitting equipment, computers electronics applications, high voltage, vacuum and electronic control systems, including microprocessor-based systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and repair systems to the component level.
• A high degree of mechanical aptitude
• Judgement and problem solving ability to identify, analyze and define problems and select the most appropriate solution.
• Ability to perform fine motor movements for making fine adjustments and repairs to computer circuit boards, using small hand tools, manipulating small mechanical parts, data entry including logging problems and solutions found in a log book.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written