Palatability Trial Execution Technician
About the role
We make pet food taste great! For over 30 years, AFB International has been providing pet food solutions that enrich the lives of pets and their people. Our palatants are specially designed to make pet foods, treats and supplements taste better, ensuring pets receive the vital nutrients they need. We know wagging tails, licking whiskers and empty bowls equal happy pets and happy pet parents. Join AFB and you'll be a part of a team of highly skilled professionals that provide the greatest contribution to our success as an organization. Our team members are diverse, creative, passionate experts who are genuinely dedicated to our mission, our customers, and the pets we serve worldwide.
Responsibilities
Provide care and maintenance for all animals by performing the following duties in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
- Provide compassionate care for all animals
- Periodic assistance in kenneling and un-kenneling dogs safely
- Recognize animal behaviors/aggression/anxiety and report as necessary
- Periodic assistance in keeping primary animal enclosures sanitized, clean, orderly and free of odors
- Ensure animals always have access to water
- Exercise/socialize animals daily and abide by exercise programs in place for all animals
- Document necessary animal information for management or veterinary staff
- Complete daily assigned wing visual management charts and report necessary information at daily huddle
- Obtain animal body weights in accordance with veterinarian guidelines
- Take inventory of stock supplies as needed
- Accept and unpack food shipments in accordance with set guidelines.
- Collecting data by weighing back food trail and cleaning animal bowls according to set guidelines.
- Preparation of food for feeding trials in accordance with guidelines
- Conducting food trials in accordance with guidelines
- Preparing food for animals not on feeding trials in accordance with guidelines