Animal Care Tech Immediate Hire Paying up to 20.00 / hr
Description :
- Performing animal care and husbandry in a pre-clinical animal research facility
- Responsible for the receipt of animals, proper identification, and placement of animals in appropriate housing units
- Routine animal care consisting of feeding, watering, and cage and room cleaning
- Animal restraint and handling, and perform animal identification and randomization
- Perform and collect various study requirements per study protocols such as observations, food and water consumption, and body weight
- Provide observations of animals for detection of disease or other health problems, and administer prescribed treatments to animals per guidelines
- Assist the clinical veterinarian in physical examination and treatment of laboratory animals
- Maintain support areas and supplies for laboratory animal resources
- Maintain study support areas and procedure rooms, keeping them clean, stocked, and ready for use
- Provide facilities sanitation and maintenance
- Assist in the operation and maintenance of equipment such as cage and glassware washers, scales and balances
- Maintain pertinent records in compliance with SOPs, USDA, FDA, and AAALAC regulations and guidelines
- May assist with preparation of animal care summaries, ensuring compliance with protocol and regulatory requirements
- May assist with various animal dosing techniques such as oral and IV administrations
- Maintain all areas of the NHP colony including animal records, paperwork and documentation, ordering supplies, health and well-being of NHPs, acclimation, and quarantine procedures, receiving of new shipments of NHPs, physical exams, and body weights
Qualifications :
Animal Handling experience
11 days ago