Animal Care Technician

About the role

Actively interviewing for an Animal Care Technician to join a research organization in Birmingham, AL. You will observe and execute activities consistent with study protocols, SOPs, GLP regulations, and safety and health practices in an ABSL-2/ABSL-3 laboratory setting. Duties include administering test and control materials via various routes, collecting samples, providing animal husbandry, maintaining cleanliness, recording data, and communicating findings. This is a Contract position based out of Birmingham, AL and is fully onsite.

Responsibilities

• Execute key activities on a study following appropriate procedures.
• Administer test and control materials by gavage, intravenous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal, and subcutaneous routes.
• Collect samples and specimens.
• Provide animal care and husbandry, including changing racks, and providing feed and water.
• Clean cages, equipment, and work area and decontaminate animal rooms using sanitizing and sterilizing equipment.
• Gather experimental data, including temperatures, weights, clinical observations, and husbandry data.
• Handle and restrain animals of various species under animal biosafety levels 1, 2, and/or 3 containment procedures.
• Gather in-life and husbandry data for various study types, including body weights, clinical observations, and food consumption.
• Communicate with and update supervisor, group leads, and co-workers as needed.
• Record data in the data collection system.
• Observe, record, and report abnormal findings to the veterinarian.
• Review in-life and husbandry data, as required.
• Complete other duties as required.

Requirements

• 0-3 years of animal handling experience in a laboratory setting.
• Ability to observe appropriate safety and study requirements by reading, understanding, and following Standard Operating Procedures, Good Laboratory Practices requirements, and study protocols.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to utilize relevant MS Office Suite Products.
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) including an N95 respirator or PAPR for extended periods.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Ability to work overtime when necessary and rotating weekends and holidays.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of standard scientific principles, theories, and concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new tasks.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or equivalent.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Pay

The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $20.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Schedule

This role may require working overtime, rotating weekends, and holidays.