Cage Wash Technician

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Handles and works with laboratory animal equipment, supplies, and materials required to provide for humane conditions.
• Provides support to the animal care facility. This includes, but is not limited to: vermin control, measuring and recording facility environmental factors, air filter changes, and lab cleaning/decontamination.
• Supports animal care technicians. Executes key activities to maintain the care of laboratory animals, including but not limited to: cleaning cages, equipment, and work area, and decontaminating animal rooms, operating sanitizing equipment, transferring clean caging/racks, and materials from storage to work areas, transporting laboratory equipment and materials to and from animal rooms, storing and stacking feed, bedding, materials and equipment, operating and adjusting animal watering system, providing environmental enrichment and/or socialization to animals as directed, verifying and documenting the operational status of various pieces of equipment and environmental conditions in animal facilities, observing appropriate safety and study requirements by reading, understanding, and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and study protocols.
• Aids the group lead, manager, and veterinarian team, as necessary.

Requirements/Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent; Associate's degree preferred.
• Ability to work overtime when necessary and participate in weekend/holiday rotations.
• Ability to work in a team environment and willingness to learn new tasks.
• Ability to work in an A/BSL-2 & 3 environment.