US Manager Surgical Support

US Manager Surgical Support

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers. Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

Paragonix Technologies markets organ transportation devices that safeguard organs during the journey between donor and recipient patients. Our devices incorporate clinically proven and medically trusted hypothermic preservation techniques in a novel suspension system to provide unprecedented physical and thermal protection. Our product portfolio spans cardiac, thoracic, and abdominal preservation devices to improve donor organ quality and extend donor organ transport time. Paragonix also markets transplant services and organ screening to the transplant community.

Job Summary:

This position is to provide oversight, management and operational support to the procurement services team. Individuals in this position will be required to provide leadership in all aspects of organ procurement. Individual will provide training and ensure successful packing of supplies, OR set-up utilizing aseptic technique, proper organ packaging per OPTN guidelines, and adherence to all Paragonix/ Transplant Advocate policies and protocols.

Essential Functions:

1. Oversees on boarding and training, including OR precepting, for procurement services employees.
2. Oversight and ordering for all Paragonix/ Transplant Advocates hubs and locations.
3. Minimum of 4 cases per month; additional cases as coverage dictates
4. Responsible for adhering to all state, federal and local laws, policies, and regulations.
5. Responsible for recovery of donor grafts in keeping with the policies, rules, and regulations of all Transplant Advocates and Paragonix clients and their medical and surgical staff.
6. Participate in hospital and medical staff committees involving donor issues by affiliated centers.
7. Responsible for working with Quality and Operations staff to develop best practice protocols.
8. Expert knowledge on usability of all Paragonix devices
9. Ability to support teams in how to use Paragonix devices when not involved in a service case
10. Utilization and training of the Paragonix App or other communication methods

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelors Degree in Health Science or equivalent experience in transplant related field.

2. Experience in pre-operative and post-operative care of transplant donor and recipient patients for at least 50 heart transplants and 50 lung transplants in a UNOS approved transplant program or cumulative experience of at least 50 thoracic transplants over the last 5 years.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Certification as a certified surgical technologist
2. ABTC certification as a CPT or CPTC
3. Certification as a CSFA or RN FA

Physical Environment:

1. OSHA Class 1
2. Must be able to safely and consistently lift up to 75 pounds
3. Ability to travel by multiple means both private and commercial including ground and air
4. Must be able to respond to an operational hub within 2 hours or a major commercial airport within 1 hour