Must haves: - Graduation from high school/GED, completion of training equivalent to the Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician certification of the AALAS, and one year of animal care experience.
Duties:
60% Animal Care and Room Sanitation - Daily maintenance of vivarium facilities, under general supervision.
- Change cages/racks, clean primary enclosures per schedule, feed and water different species of animals used in LARC.
- Maintain all animals and animal housing areas according to LARC standard operating procedures for each species.
- Always handle animals humanely and with care. Mistreatment can result in severe, negative employment consequences.
- Monitor room conditions for temperature, humidity, and sanitation. Report conditions outside of set ranges to your Supervisor/Principal Technician.
- Identify animal care needs as they arise and report them to the Supervisor.
- Communicate with the faculty regarding animal housing/husbandry issues in a professional and articulate manner.
15% Animal Health - Identify and report all sick and unhealthy animals to Supervisor, Animal Health Technician, veterinary staff, and/or Principle Investigators (PI’s).
- Assist in restraint of animals as needed.
- Assist in animal health screening programs (which range from rodent sentinel program to large animal sample collection) as assigned.
- Assist in training animals for physical exam or research behaviors.
- Perform treatments, administer routine medications, apply technical skills under close supervision (e.g. collect fecal samples, various injections, etc.).
- Other animal health duties as assigned.
10% Record Keeping - Perform record-keeping duties, such as per-diems records, feed logs, temperature and humidity charts, animal receipt, and disposition logs.
- Perform sanitation record verification, such as water temperature or autoclave logs.
- Perform all duties as assigned in animal housing rooms and log in daily check sheet.
- Perform Census bar code cage scanning and data entry
10% Maintenance - Ability to use small hand tools to repair cages, racks, and minor mechanical needs (e.g., automatic watering systems, water fillers, etc.).
- Maintain and change rack, biosafety cabinet, humidifier, and room filters.
- Maintain/restock supplies in common areas, including feed, PPE, and equipment
Requirements: - 1 year of animal handling or lab animal sanitation equipment operations experience required
- Ability to communicate animal health information to appropriate personnel, maintain legible records for permanent status. All assignments require some use of computer/email.
- Basic computer skills (e.g. email skills, ability to scan cage barcodes, sync PDA’s for submitting Health Surveillance Reports electronically, utilize email account for work-related communications, online training, HBS timesheet submission).
- Graduation from high school/GED, completion of training equivalent to the Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician certification of the AALAS, and one year of animal care experience; or high school graduation and two years of animal care experience in the care of an animal species appropriate to the particular job; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
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