Animal Care Technician - Office of Lab Animal Resources
About the role
The Office of Lab Animal Resources at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for an Animal Care Technician. Performs animal care duties including washing soiled animal cages, caging racks and other equipment; setting up clean cages for animal rooms; performing other custodial duties within the animal vivarium (daily trash removal, cleaning support areas, maintaining certain types of specialized equipment); feeding, watering and changing cages on a variety of animal species used in Biomedical Research; observing animals closely and notifying veterinary staff or supervisors if any abnormalities are noticed. This position involves work during weekends, weekdays, holidays or after hours and requires the employee to be available for such shifts. Initial and periodic Medical Monitoring exams through the Occupational Medicine Program are also required.
Responsibilities
- Animal Husbandry Duties (45%)
- Disassemble rodent caging and separate equipment.
- Dump soiled cages in cage wash area and run soiled cages through rack and tunnel washer.
- Operate cage washers for sanitizing and sterilizing rodent cages.
- Prepare routine daily maintenance on cage washers as described in SOP’s and as directed by supervisors.