Animal Care Technician

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide animal husbandry support including but not limited to: preparing cages for change out and changing cages on a scheduled basis and during absences and workload needs.
• Provide sanitation services associated with animal rooms, procedure laboratories, necropsy rooms, surgery suites, and other support facilities.
• Provide general housekeeping services for corridors and support areas (feed rooms, procedure rooms, surgery rooms, necropsy rooms, etc.).
• Observe laboratory animals for variations in the dietary habits, feces and urine character, health status, and unusual behavior and report trauma or signs of disease to appropriate personnel.
• Perform daily feed and water observations.
• Perform various methods of animal identification, maintaining records (census, room log, etc.) daily.
• Perform euthanasia when requested.
• Perform animal receipt, animal census, technical support, project support, and administrative support.
• Support in necessary and often repetitive, physical tasks (e.g. inventory, disposal).
• Perform other duties as assigned by Management in compliance with the needs of Veterinary Resources.

Skills & Proficiencies

• Transferable skills and ability to learn new tasks.
• Verbal, written, and electronic communication skills.
• Problem solving and process improvement ability.
• Organization and time management skills.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks.
• Ability to prioritize individual workload to meet or exceed deadlines.
• Individual and team work ethic.
• Basic computer skills: Windows, Word & Excel.
• Attention to detail necessary to adhere to animal welfare expectations.
• Ability to perform assigned tasks independently and reliably.
• Awareness and general understanding of established and proposed federal, state and local regulations, guidelines and policies relating to laboratory animal science.
• Awareness and general understanding of provisions set forth in the "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals".

Education And Experience

• Associates Degree in related field.
• Minimum of one year of experience working directly with animals.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of above.