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Kentucky Community & Technical College System

Simulation Operations Specialist

🇺🇸 Owensboro, KY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $49K - $53K

💻 Operations

🗓️ August 26th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Kentucky Community & Technical College is hiring a Simulation Operations Specialist. The role involves planning and executing all operational and technical aspects of simulated learning activities and simulation-based education for the HealthForce Kentucky mobile simulation lab and partners. The specialist maintains, supports, troubleshoots, and updates human patient simulators, medical equipment, and audiovisual systems.

Highlights
  • Manage simulation setups and operations including human patient simulators and audiovisual equipment.
  • Provide technical support and maintenance for simulation equipment and software updates.
  • Collaborate with HealthForce Kentucky team and educational partners to facilitate realistic scenario-based training.
  • Maintain inventory and storage of simulation assets and transport equipment to training locations.
  • Requires associate degree in healthcare or computer information plus four years relevant experience; valid driver’s license mandatory.
  • Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS) and healthcare experience preferred.
  • Must demonstrate strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to travel frequently (up to 90%), including overnight stays, with provided or compensated transportation and lodging.
  • Position is grant funded with a 12-month contract and a salary range of $49,000 - $53,000.
  • Work includes lifting up to 50 pounds and potential work outside standard hours.

Simulation Operations Specialist Full Description

Title: Simulation Operations Specialist
Salary Range: $49,000 - $53,000
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.5
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Owensboro Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Owensboro Community College
Department: HealthForce Kentucky
Total Rewards
Owensboro Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
  • Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
  • Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
  • 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
  • Vacation/Sick Time
  • Work-Life Balance
  • 9.5 Paid Holidays
  • 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
  • Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary
The Simulation Operations Specialist (SOS) plans and executes all operational and technical aspects of simulated learning activities, simulation-based education, and scenario-based training for the HealthForce Kentucky mobile simulation lab, innovation center, and educational partners. The SOS develops operational and technical proficiency with all aspects of the operation, maintenance, support, troubleshooting, implementation, hardware/software updates, and repair of all system simulation labs’ inventory, such as the human patient simulator systems, simulation task trainers, associated medical equipment, and computer/audiovisual systems. Position is grant funded and continuation is contingent upon future funding. Visit our website at https://healthforcekentucky.org/

Job Duties:
• Collaborate with the HealthForce Kentucky team and educational partners to support all technical aspects of the simulation before, during and after the simulation exercise/course/scenario. Including direct interaction with the participants, accommodates appropriate adjustments to the scenario, and technical responses of simulator based on planning, participant feedback, and actions.
• Prepare, program, clean, and operate all human patient simulator systems, simulation task trainers, associated medical equipment and computer/audiovisual equipment before, during and after the training exercises.
• Support the management and maintenance of all equipment, including simulators and computer/audiovisual, to ensure proper working order, appropriate maintenance, warranty support, and software updates.
• Ensure simulations/events are fully immersive through proper planning, room orientation, environment realism, faculty orientation and support, application of medical moulage and simulated medical conditions to human patient simulators, and/or standardized patients/role players. This includes collaborating with the HealthForce Kentucky team to create curricular anatomy models.
• Maintain accurate inventory and organized storage of equipment (simulators, hardware, and software) and supplies.
• Transport equipment to various HealthForce Kentucky partners in Western Kentucky for simulation training purposes.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Associate degree in healthcare field or computer information with four (4) years of relevant work experience or equivalent is required.
• A valid driver’s license is required.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS) is preferred.
• Prior healthcare experience is preferred.

Additional Skills Requested:
• Actively participate in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.
• Must possess excellent organizational, oral, and written communication skills and positive interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to professionally and flexibly work independently and collaboratively with others.
• This position will work with age groups across the lifespan.
• Skilled in or the ability to learn how to use databases and simulation equipment.
• Frequent travel is possible, up to 90% of the time, and may require occasional overnight stays. Transportation and accommodations are provided or compensated.
• Work may be required outside of usual working hours.
• Ability to lift, push, pull, carry up to 50 pounds.

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