Animal Care and Breeding Tech/Research Associate

Perform routine animal husbandry (cage change, food/water, health monitoring).

Prepare and submit records, census sheets, room logs, cage cards, and inventories.

Sanitize and decontaminate all areas of the facility.

Follow room entry order and biosafety procedures.

Dispose of waste following appropriate SOPs and waste streams.

Receive, identify, and properly house incoming animal shipments according to SOPs.

Must have extensive experience performing mouse IV injections

Maintain animal racks and support equipment.

Assist with ordering, receipt, and stocking of all supply inventories.

May perform basic animal health treatments with direction from the veterinary staff.

Understand and follow SOPs, safety procedures, and quality assurance guidelines for animal care at all levels of biohazard containment (BSLI and BSLII).

Perform daily animal health surveillance checks and report any abnormal conditions of either the animals or the animal room environment to client, veterinary staff, and direct supervisory staff.

Maintain a daily animal cage census in assigned animal rooms.

Remove and sex (male/female) weanling animals to separate cages.

Humanely euthanize animals as requested or required

Perform other duties under supervision, as assigned.