Responsibilities:
- Receive, identify, transfer, and house incoming animal shipments per SOPs.
- Provide daily care, including feeding, watering, and enrichment, and conduct health checks, reporting any issues.
- Perform routine husbandry, treatments, and euthanasia per approved protocols and SOPs.
- Maintain accurate records (census, logs, charts, cage cards) and ensure work areas are clean and organized.
- Sanitize facility areas as scheduled and follow all SOPs, safety, and quality guidelines.
Requirements:
- B.S. degree preferred; ALAT certification preferred but not required with relevant degree or experience.
- Must have extensive rodent technical experience, including handling, dosing, injections (IV, retro-orbital), sampling, surgeries (e.g., osmotic pump placement), and colony management.
- Rodent caretaking experience preferred unless ALAT/LAT certified or holding an advanced related degree.
- Strong attention to detail and multitasking abilities required.