Animal Care Technician

Role Responsibilities

• Perform routine animal husbandry tasks including feeding, cleaning, and health monitoring per approved guidelines, SOPs, and regulations.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including animal identification cards, inventory records, environment reports, enrichment logs, and equipment cleaning and sterilization records.
• Absorb and assist with animal handling, restraint, and basic veterinary procedures.
• Ensure optimal animal care environments through systematic facility maintenance, including thorough cleaning and disinfection of all surfaces at prescribed intervals following facility SOPs.
• Provide humane care and maintenance.

Key Qualifications

• Proven experience working with research animals.
• Strong understanding of animal behavior, husbandry, and welfare principles.
• Working knowledge of hygienic principles and animal husbandry practices.
• Understanding of "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" principles.
• Availability to work weekends and participate in on-call rotations.
• Ability to understand and follow facility Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Proficiency in reading English and numerical data for instructions, record-keeping, and animal identification.
• Excellent observational skills and attention to detail.
• Basic computer skills for database entry.
• To work in an animal research environment requiring continuous contact with animals.
• Physical ability to lift up to 50 pounds (feed, bedding, animals).

Preferred Qualifications

• AALAS certification (ALAT, LAT, or LATG).
• Knowledge of animal research regulations and compliance requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
• Flexible vacation and company-paid holidays.
• Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees.
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care and medical leave.
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Science.
• Flexible Spending Account.
• 401(k) Science Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.