Senior Surgery Specialist

Solutions to advance life science

Essential Job Functions

• Contribute to Surgical Services Revenue:
  • Perform simple to complex small animal surgeries
  • Provide in-house hands-on surgical training for DSI customers
  • Perform surgeries for pre-implanted small animals at DSI for shipment to the customer
  • Support product development: Performing survival and acute surgery on small animals
  • Participate in cross-functional teams for new products and product refinements
  • Conduct chronic testing and data collection on animals
  • Maintain detailed records of animal implants and explants
  • Create and maintain surgical manuals, tech notes, and other applicable materials
  • Provide surgical support to customers and sales reps
• Contribute to Maintaining the Laboratory:
  • Monitor the health and welfare of all animals following applicable guidelines for care and use of laboratory animals
  • Work weekends and holidays to conduct health checks
  • Provide peri and post-operative animal care duties
  • Stock and order lab supplies
  • Complete routine cleaning and maintenance tasks
  • Perform cage changes and cleaning
  • Assist with modifying and maintaining surgical database
  • Maintain internal records and compliance documentation
• Continued Improvement to Surgical Service Internal Documentation:
  • Aid in writing process documentation
  • Aid in modification and maintenance of surgical database
  • Maintain internal records and compliance documentation

Skills and abilities required

• Macro and microsurgery
• Peri and Post-operative animal care
• Self-starter
• Microsoft Office software user
• Communication skills
• Team skills
• Detail oriented

Bonus skills and experience

• Surgical experience with DSI telemetry
• Large animal surgical experience

Education and Experience and/or equivalent

• High School or equivalent
• Minimum of three years of relevant experience with small laboratory animals
• Certification (SRT or SRS) through the Academy of Surgical Research is required or willingness to obtain upon hire

Physical demands

• Ability to perform microscopic surgery
• Sitting and standing for the majority of the day

Travel

• Up to ~30%

Additional Information

• Other Duties: Increase proficiency in the field and education by attending additional training for other professional development, i.e. novel surgical techniques, animal care, and welfare, etc.
• Ensure continuing education credits are obtained to maintain certifications, i.e. ASR certifications.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Veteran/Disabi Ity FLSA Exempt

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