Digital Prosthetics Engineer

Overview:

• Correspond to design, fit, maintain and deliver prosthetic legs.
• Will be responsible for fieldwork – going to patients houses for scanning stumps and fitting prosthetics.
• Go to different places not only in Metro Manila but as well as provinces via several nights up to a week
• Making and reporting of work reports (like daily reports)
• Communicate with customers.
• Assess the skill of DPEs and give technical feedback.
• Provide the training with new members and unskilled DPE. Also, create the documents for the training
• Have leadership to tackle problems for the new activity and concern situation
• The selected candidate will be trained to obtain the skills needed to be a Certificated Digital Prosthetics Engineer and shall pass the assessments provided by his/her superiors.

Work Details:

• Correspond to design, fit, maintain and deliver prosthetic legs
• Patients contact part
• Evaluate patients to determine their situation and needs to provide prosthetics.
• Measure patients in order to design proper prosthetics.
• 3D-Scan the part of a patient’s body in order to get 3D data for a prosthetics design.
• Design prosthetics using 3D-CAD software.
• Check and observe the fitting condition and adjust the prosthesis leg to match with the patient.
• Instruct patients how to use and care for his/her device.
• Repair or update prosthetics.
• Record on all required documents for all of the patients' information.
• Correspond to travel and delivery service and go to patient homes in a specified span.
• Workspace management
• Regular cleaning.
• Inspection and inventory management of materials. (i.e. prosthetic parts)
• Management and maintenance of tools.
• Assess the skill of DPEs and give technical feedback
• Operation part
• Check DPE operation by following the educational material.
• Perform the ability that he/she is able to make a solution and analyze problems under difficult situations.
• Provide the training with new members and unskilled DPE. Also, create the documents for the training.
• Attitude
• Prompt other members' opinions and create better analysis.
• The person can explain the concern logically.
• Have leadership to tackle problems for the new activity and concern situation
• Operation part
• In the difficult situation, the person can suggest the alternative idea to overcome the problem
• Making the proposal to the superior after considering the pros and cons of the idea
• Attitude
• Even though the situation is difficult, the person keeps considering the solution to proceed to the next step.
• Can hear other member opinions and create the best solution
• The selected candidate will be trained to obtain the skills needed to be a Certificated Digital Prosthetics Engineer and shall pass the assessments provided by his/her superiors.
• All of the training associated with the examination is delivered by our internal training program.
• The person shall pass the internal examination within the probationary period.

Qualifications:

• With bachelor degree of any engineering/science course preferably Mechanical Engineering
• The ability to work under strict deadlines without letting the shortage of time affect the quality of work
• Knowledge on resolving design and functional issues arising in the course of a project
• Good verbal and written communicator in English
• Self-motivated, self-disciplined and can do the job with minimal supervision
• Standard computer skills: Word, Excel, email, online communication tools (slack, etc.)