Animal Care Assistant II

Responsibilities

• Clean and maintain assigned animal rooms
• Observe and record signs of unusual appearance, behavior, illness, or death in animals; complete and maintain forms as required
• Determine sex and wean animals according to established protocols
• Administer pre-measured medications according to instructions
• Obtain routine diagnostic specimens from animals, i.e., blood for viral tests
• Maintain separation of various strains of rodents
• Keep accurate and complete records on animal inventories and activities as required by various regulatory agencies
• May deliver and pick up animals, caging and other supplies between research animal facilities using department owned non-commercial vans, trucks or light transit vehicles
• May load and unload delivery vehicles by hand or by using a hand-truck, pallet-jack, dolly or forklift
• May sanitize vehicles and maintain logs of maintenance requirements as needed
• May perform any of the duties described in the Animal Care Assistant I specification or other duties as assigned
• Adhere to safety rules

Requirements

• Familiarity with NIH guidelines, Stanford animal care and use policies, and USDA regulations
• Ability to safely operate hand-truck, forklift, and pallet jack machines, as well as non-commercial vans, trucks and light transit vehicles