Job Summary:

• Responsibilities include daily care and health monitoring of laboratory animals utilizing specialized equipment and processes, 
• Maintenance of animal housing and usage areas.
• Support daily operational tasks wherever required, including cage wash. 
• Requires general knowledge of laboratory animal species used to support research. 
• Requires basic understanding of, and ability to utilize, common animal care facility systems, including ventilated cage racks, automated watering system, cage wash equipment, and environmental monitors.
• Assists fellow technicians in the appropriate animal husbandry procedures.
• Provides assistance in training technical staff, students, and investigators on the proper handling of research animals.
• Assists the Veterinary Doctor in administering animal procedures such as medications and treatments and collects biological samples.
• Ensures that any facility issues are promptly identified, reported, and addressed.
• Receives and stores materials and supplies, as well as maintains work records.
• Interacts with investigators regarding husbandry and health of the animals under their care.

Skills on Resume: 

• Animal Care and Health Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Equipment and Process Utilization (Hard Skills)
• Animal Husbandry Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Facility Systems Management (Hard Skills)
• Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Training Assistance (Soft Skills)
• Medical Procedure Support (Hard Skills)
• Facility Management and Reporting (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Assisting the veterinary team in consultation.
• Assisting the nursing team to restrain patients for procedures.
• Feeding, Watering and walking patients in care in line with their clinical needs to ensure their stay is as comfortable as possible.
• Cleaning different areas of the practice including Theatre to an extremely high standard.         
• Be asked to set up for surgical procedures and clean down in between surgeries.
• Assisting with running diagnostic tests on in-house diagnostic machines.
• Providing a high level of customer service.
• Promoting the practice positively in the local community.
• Receiving drug orders into the practice and putting stock away.
• Clinical admin such as recording information on records system.
• Contacting clients with updates regarding their pet that is in for care with us.

Skills on Resume: 

• Veterinary Assistance (Hard Skills)
• Patient Restraint (Hard Skills)
• Animal Care (Hard Skills)
• Cleaning and Sanitization (Hard Skills)
• Surgical Preparation and Support (Hard Skills)
• Diagnostic Testing (Hard Skills)
• Customer Service (Soft Skills)
• Community Engagement (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Perform daily animal health/wellness checks and report any aberrant animal problems to supervisor and/or Study Director
• Fulfill basic needs of the animals including feeding, providing fresh water, bathing, etc
• Comply with all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Quality Assurance Standards, and research protocol requirements
• Clean and sanitize laboratory, animal rooms, and walkways
• Maintain all necessary records for animal holdings rooms and environmental logs
• Conduct daily animal health monitoring, husbandry and receipt of animal shipments. 
• Identify and respond to clinical conditions
• Perform facility maintenance including receiving/stocking supplies, sanitization/sterilization of equipment and environment, waste management, and monitoring environmental parameters
• Review SOPs and IACUC documents
• Comply with the appropriate safety and study requirements as described in the Standard
• Operating Procedures (SOPs), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and governmental regulations
• Comply with the appropriate safety and health practices including personal protective equipment and barrier requirements
• Recognize animal behavior and implement stimulation processes to eliminate or reduce stressors

Skills on Resume: 

• Animal Health Monitoring and Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Animal Husbandry (Hard Skills)
• Adherence to SOPs and Protocols (Hard Skills)
• Facility Cleaning and Sanitization (Hard Skills)
• Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
• Animal Handling and Shipment Receipt (Hard Skills)
• Facility Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Compliance and Safety (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Perform husbandry tasks including daily health checks, cage changes, and room sanitation according to SOPs
• Monitors environmental parameters and condition of the animal rooms, equipment and proper functioning of mechanical systems in assigned areas daily
• Maintain an organized and clean work environment that pertains to animal rooms but also includes procedure rooms, anterooms, and storage areas
• Assist with ear tagging in shaving to prepare mice for enrolling in a study
• May assist with handling, restraining, weighing animals, and various techniques as directed and under the supervision of the vivarium manager
• Accurately completes room logs and records on a prescribed schedule
• Participates in training and education programs
• Providing food, water and bedding to the animals
• Changing cages and associated equipment
• Assisting in the handling of animals for various procedures
• Performing cleaning duties within the animal rooms and facility
• Preparing equipment and materials for use on studies
• Recording routine study data both manually and using electronic data capture systems.

Skills on Resume: 

• Husbandry Tasks (Hard Skills)
• Environmental Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Sanitation Procedures (Hard Skills)
• Organization and Cleanliness (Soft Skills)
• Animal Handling Techniques (Hard Skills)
• Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
• Training and Education (Soft Skills)
• Attention to Detail (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Ensure that high standards of animal welfare are met.
• Provide food, water and clean housing to animals according to applicable SOPs.
• Perform routine animal health observations.
• Maintain accurate paper-based and computer records.
• Maintain vivarium cleanliness in accordance with applicable SOPs.
• Order and maintain accurate supply inventory.
• Maintain and organize supply areas.
• Monitor temperature and humidity, reporting any issues to supervisor or manager
• Maintain vivarium cleanliness in accordance with applicable SOPs

Skills on Resume: 

• Animal Welfare Compliance (Hard Skills)
• Animal Care (Hard Skills)
• Routine Health Observation (Hard Skills)
• Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
• Vivarium Sanitation (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
• Organization (Soft Skills)
• Environmental Monitoring (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Care for rats and/or mice in a closed barrier colony by following standard operating procedure of strain or line. 
• Provide humane treatment to animals at all times.
• Document work performed according to SOP's
• Maintain accurate inventories and breeding records
• Take samples for quality control
• Escalate issues to others as necessary
• Ensure high standards of animal welfare are met
• Follow procedures for breeding of specific strains.
• Determination of timed pregnancy, as assigned
• Performing assigned husbandry tasks.
• Perform assigned tasks without supervision.
• Apply principles of sanitation and disinfection.
• Adjust the work schedule to accommodate varying
• Work varying schedules.
• Ability to work weekends, holidays, and evenings.

Skills on Resume: 

• Animal Care and Handling (Hard Skills)
• Compliance with SOPs (Hard Skills)
• Documentation (Hard Skills)
• Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
• Sample Collection (Hard Skills)
• Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
• Animal Welfare Standards (Hard Skills)
• Breeding Procedures (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Perform clinical rounds to observe clinical health and well being of laboratory animals
• Identify equipment that is in need of repair report abnormalities by observing each primate for common signs of illness, pain, trauma, or depression
• Administer treatment/medication as needed report injuries disease or abnormal behavior to a supervisor or designated person
• Lead teams for projects such as client shipments, administering vaccinations, TB testing, Bleeds and sample collecting of Non-human primates
• Maintain animal areas and the facility, i.e.; general husbandry and ensure daily cleaning schedules
• Animal feeding and animal observations are made according to departmental SOPs
• Unload and unpack new arrivals and pack animals for shipment and ensure the quality of animals by thorough processing, examination, preconditioning and preparation for creating animals for shipment.
• Assist in the maintenance of all paperwork associated with imports from arrival through quarantine and CDC release as a quality record to be stored
• Transcribe all pertinent information pertaining to operations to the AS400 system such as inventories, animal records, locations, tests, screenings vaccinations, health issues, etc
• Process and maintain animal health records and sales records

Skills on Resume: 

• Clinical Observation (Hard Skills)
• Equipment Maintenance Identification (Hard Skills)
• Medication Administration (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Facility Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Animal Feeding and Observation (Hard Skills)
• Animal Handling for Shipment (Hard Skills)
• Record Keeping and Data Entry (Hard Skills)

Prepare and provide billing for customer service

• Ensure daily cleaning schedules, animal feeding and animal observations are made according to departmental SOPs
• Assist in coordinating activities related to the care and management of primates and the cleaning and maintenance of related facilities and ensure compliance with those areas in the AWA specific to non-human primates
• Ensure strict compliance with standard operating procedures, federal and state agency regulations
• Comply with the standards of the ILAR guide for the care and welfare of animals through meeting the requirements and standards of AAALAC
• Assist in scheduling and assigning workloads to ensure efficient utilization of manpower equipment and facilities
• Maintain updated awareness of incoming and outgoing shipments as well as orders and inventories
• Assist in necropsies as necessary
• Call appropriate parties to perform repairs of equipment and facilities
• Monitor room conditions such as temperature and lighting
• Assign and allocate housing for animals

Skills on Resume: 

• Billing and Customer Service (Hard Skills)
• Facility Cleaning and Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Coordination of Primate Care Activities (Hard Skills)
• Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
• Knowledge of AWA Regulations (Hard Skills)
• Workload Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
• Facility Monitoring (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Provide food and water for dogs and cats
• Exercise dogs and provide out-of-kennel potty breaks for dogs
• Clean animal housing and exercise areas, carriers, litter boxes and bedding
• Take inventory and stock necessary supplies
• Monitor and record food intake, exercise and report observed medical or behavioral issues
• Open/unlock facility at start of day and/or close/lock facility at end of day
• Assist medical department in pulling animals for surgery and/or releasing animals from surgery back to their kennels or condos.
• Performing basic animal husbandry on a wide variety of species
• Record keeping
• Administration of medications
• Animal enrichment.
• Maintain accurate animal records
• Perform basic animal husbandry on a wide variety of species
• Administer routine medications
• Maintain sanitation and safety procedures in accordance to regulations

Skills on Resume: 

• Animal Feeding and Hydration (Hard Skills)
• Dog Walking and Exercise (Hard Skills)
• Cleaning and Sanitation (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
• Monitoring and Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Facility Opening and Closing Procedures (Hard Skills)
• Surgical Support (Hard Skills)
• Animal Husbandry (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Comply with the appropriate safety and study requirements as described in the Standard
• Operating Procedures (SOPs), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and governmental
• regulations
• Comply with the appropriate safety and health practices including personal protective
• equipment and barrier requirements, as applicable
• Recognize animal behavior and implement stimulation processes to eliminate or reduce
• stressors
• Perform animal husbandry tasks
• Weighing of animals
• Assist with animal shipment activities
• Maintain regulated equipment 
• Perform facility cleaning tasks
• Perform minor cage repairs
• Assist with scientific procedures
• Assist with veterinary procedures 
• Attend training programs to become more knowledgeable of and develop expertise in laboratory animal science.

Skills on Resume: 

• Compliance with SOPs, GLP, and Regulations (Hard Skills)
• Safety and Health Practices (Hard Skills)
• Animal Behavior Recognition (Hard Skills)
• Animal Husbandry (Hard Skills)
• Animal Weighing (Hard Skills)
• Animal Shipment Assistance (Hard Skills)
• Equipment Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Facility Cleaning (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Handling and working with laboratory animals and the equipment, supplies, and materials, required to provide for humane conditions.
• Execute key activities to maintain the care of laboratory animals, including but not limited to:
• Clean cages, equipment, and work area, and decontaminate animal rooms, this includes operating sanitizing and sterilizing equipment
• Providing clean housing, feed, water and appropriate enrichment for animals housed in the facility
• Gather experimental data by measuring and recording body weights and temperatures, qualitative and quantitative food and water consumption, and observation of physical condition
• Transfer animals and animal identification to clean caging/racks, and materials from storage to work areas
• Transport laboratory equipment and materials to and from animal rooms
• Observe animals twice daily and report abnormal finding to appropriate individual(s)
• Store feed, bedding, materials and equipment
• Operate and adjust animal watering system
• Provide environmental enrichment and/or socialization to animals as directed
• General handling and restraint of animals
• Verify and document the operational status of various pieces of equipment and environmental conditions in animal facilities
• Observe appropriate safety and study requirements by reading, understanding, and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and study protocols.

Skills on Resume: 

• Animal Handling and Care (Hard Skills)
• Cleaning and Sanitization (Hard Skills)
• Provision of Housing, Feed, and Water (Hard Skills)
• Data Collection and Recording (Hard Skills)
• Material Handling and Transport (Hard Skills)
• Observation and Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Equipment Operation and Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Compliance with SOPs, GLP, and Regulations (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Review, comprehend and comply with all SOPs, guidelines/policies, training provided both verbally and written, protocols, and quality assurance standards pertaining to assigned responsibilities and to the care and use of laboratory animals for research.
• Monitor daily animal health and welfare while performing daily animal health observations utilizing an assigned iPAD or tablet device. 
• Perform animal husbandry duties to maintain quality and health of research animals
• Perform daily water bottle /automatic water line and cage checks
• Provide appropriate food and water
• Perform cage changing and/or cage cleaning 
• Record animal health concerns per SOP and/or specified protocols. 
• Utilizes cage change program schedule and documentation using company issued iPAD or tablet device.
• Assist with animal sample collection and other in vivo procedures as assigned by the on-site facility veterinarian or veterinary staff member.
• Provide service daily to the researchers to ensure study animals receive medicated diet and/or water and any other special housing requests outlined in their study protocol. 
• Direct communication and interaction may be required between employee and researcher.
• Perform a variety of technical procedures on rodents, such as, ear tagging, shaving, blood collecting, tissue sampling, glucose monitoring, fasting, etc.
• Dispose of animal carcasses following department SOP’s and guidelines/policies.
• Strictly follow all procedures necessary to maintain animal housing areas or isolator environments, including room or facility personnel entry and personnel protective equipment use, biosecurity procedures.
• Receive, inspect and house incoming animals
• Care for and provide for sentinel animals in each rodent housing area as required by department SOP’s, guidelines/policies, and protocols.
• Operate equipment and use supplies according to safety guidelines
• Perform general housekeeping and adheres to safety procedures.
• Maintain required attendance level and adherence to assigned work schedule in accordance with required staffing levels in order to ensure that assigned duties are completed to Genentech standards.

Skills on Resume: 

• Compliance with SOPs, Guidelines, and Policies (Hard Skills)
• Animal Health Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Animal Husbandry (Hard Skills)
• Water Bottle and Cage Checks (Hard Skills)
• Cage Changing and Cleaning (Hard Skills)
• Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
• Technical Procedures on Rodents (Hard Skills)
• Biosecurity Procedures (Hard Skills)