Also called: Field Service Engineer, CT/MRI Service Engineer
Travels to hospitals to install and repair million-dollar MRI, CT, and X-ray machines.
Gets a call that a hospital's only MRI is down, drives over, diagnoses a failed cooling component, and coordinates a repair so patients can be scanned again by afternoon. Lots of travel, lots of autonomy.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Associate or bachelor's in electronics or biomedical technology, or military electronics training, plus factory training.
Ways in: 2-year college, 4-year college, Military. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology, Biomedical Engineering Technology.
Growing faster than average. Steady.
Low risk for 10 years. Remote diagnostics fix some faults from afar; hands-on repair of MRI and CT machines in hospitals stays human.
Classes: Electronics CTE, Physics, Algebra II.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9062.
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