Supervisor, Laboratory Animal Technician

Primary Responsibilities

• Train, onboard, cross-train, and assess competency of research technicians while maintaining required training records.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and performance feedback to research technicians.
• Cook up and prioritize technician activities and staffing coverage to support time-sensitive study activities and daily vivarium operations.
• Attend weekly meetings with study coordinators to efficiently plan technician schedules to ensure proper coverage.
• Identify workflow inefficiencies and implement process improvements.
• Ensure technician activities remain compliant with SOPs, protocols, and regulatory expectations.
• Support AAALAC, IACUC, QA, and client inspections/audits.
• Complete and maintain safety, equipment, and hazardous waste verification logs.
• Complete and maintain environmental health monitoring testing and records and communicate results to the attending veterinarian and in-vivo manager.
• Maintain In-Vivo inventory and order materials as needed.
• Lead weekly research technician meetings with direct reports to communicate study activity assignments.
• Communicate with study coordinators and principal investigators to ensure their needs are being met.
• Escalate performance, compliance, or scheduling concerns to in-vivo manager as appropriate.
• Adapt to changing study priorities and operational needs in a fast-paced research environment.
• Participate in research technician activities, as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

General/Miscellaneous

• Treat animals humanely and report any concerns over animal care and use.
• Accurately follow study protocols and report any divergences to in-vivo manager and PI immediately.
• Follow company policies (Handbook, SOPs, Program for Care and Use of Animals, IACUC, Dose & Blood collection policy, Aseptic Surgery policy).
• Communicate with management if you can’t meet expectations or need help with priorities.

Education & Experience

• B.S./B.A. in science (biology or equivalent) with 3-year direct laboratory animal work experience, or associate degree with 5 years direct laboratory animal work experience, or 8 years of direct laboratory animal work experience without a college science degree, or equivalent combination of related education and required work experience will be considered with management approval.
• PREFERRED: Animal laboratory research experience with mice and rats, including dosing, in-life sample collections, and necropsy collections.
• PREFERRED: Animal laboratory management experience.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $60,000- $75,000. Salary will be commensurate with experience and responsibilities.

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

• Health and dental coverage
• Short- and long-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• 401K

Company Information

• Inotiv is a growing contemporary drug discovery and development company.
• We "Play to Win" in an industry rich with opportunity.
• We embrace research and science to impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.
• Inotiv is an Equal Opportunity Employer.