Animal Care Technician I or Animal Care Technician II

Job Summary

Are you looking for a job working with research animals? We offer a rewarding career with a flexible work environment. Animal Care staff provide routine and specialized animal husbandry and facility maintenance. If you are passionate about animals, supportive of biomedical research and want to learn how you can play a critical role within BRMS, we invite you to apply for this position. The animal program involves all aspects of animal use for research, teaching, and outreach. BRMS is seeking an Animal Care Technician to join their Rodent Breeding Core. The BRMS Rodent Breeding Core provides research support across all animal programs on campus. The Breeding Core breeds over 700 strains of mice.

This position will be responsible for performing routine and specialized animal husbandry tasks and general facility maintenance for the Mouse Breeding Core in Biomedical Research Model Services (BRMS). These duties include general animal husbandry, feeding and watering animals, weaning, sampling for genotyping, monitoring animal room environments, cleaning primary and secondary enclosures, receiving animals, preparing animals for transport, restraining, and handling animals, reporting sick and injured animals, general facility maintenance and housekeeping. ACT positions interact with researchers and veterinary staff as required. Other duties to be assigned by the supervisor. We offer flexible hours after passing the probationary period, extra hourly differential pay for weekend hours worked, and additional hourly pay for each level of AALAS certification.

• This position requires work to be completed onsite, at a designated campus work location.
• The standard schedule for this position is Monday through Friday and every other weekend from 7a.m.- 3:30p.m. This position will have one weekday off. Holiday work may be required. Exact schedule will be determined at time of hire.
• Applicants for this position will be considered for the following titles: Animal Care Technician I and Animal Care Technician II. The title is determined by the experience and qualifications of the finalist. The responsibilities in this job posting are for the Animal Care Technician I title. An Animal Care Technician II will perform tasks more independently, assist with training students and new staff, and collect samples from animals and administer medications, injections and treatments according to the established protocols and procedures to be used for diagnostic tests and research.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Inspects and reports equipment problems to ensure optimal and safe operation
• Maintains organization of and updates records related to research procedures
• Inventories, cleans, and maintains organization of animal holding spaces and supplies
• Observes animal behavior, performs basic animal care, and reports concerns to the appropriate entities to contribute to the health and well-being of animals to support research and teaching
• Assists with preparing food and formulas and feeds animals according to established schedules and specifications
• Perform breeding and colony management.