Animal Care Technician

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Perform husbandry tasks for animals including cage change, cash wash, and health monitoring under IACUC standards.
• Perform daily animal checks to promote animal welfare, including weekends and holidays.
• Receive animals into the facility.
• Rodent identification (tattooing, ear tagging, and microchipping).
• Rodent body weight collection.
• Assist with colony maintenance related tasks, including weaning, pairing, euthanasia, and sample biopsy for genotyping.
• Data entry into colony management software.
• Maintaining weekly, monthly, and annual Vivarium cleaning.
• Supporting timed feeding.
• General stocking of cage supplies, and PPE areas.
• Communicate thoroughly and regularly with staff members.
• Performs related job duties as required and properly documented.
• Adhere to, with a strong understanding, standard operating procedures/guidelines regarding personnel and animal safety.

Desired Education and Skills:

• High School diploma required.
• ALAT preferred, or ability to achieve ALAT status within 2 years.
• Laboratory animal experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications; Word, Excel, Outlook systems.
• Must be able to work on weekend/holiday schedule for vivarium coverage.
• Ability to strictly adhere to laboratory methods and SOPs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to follow verbal instructions.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize shifting demands and workload.

• Needed Skills: IV injections not needed, she's open to greener candidates that have not worked in research, but have been in a vet clinic (avoid explora if possible, it was bought by charles river..they teach bad practices)

• Need hard worker.

• Schedules: Can pick either Sun-TH, Tuesday- Saturday

• Flexible start times. some start at 630am, some at 7a, FT 40 hours

• Training: Monday-Friday for first few weeks

• Travel Expense: Mileage between clients, not from home to client or form client to home

Medix is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.