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Animal Care Technician - Entry Level

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Description:

Schedule 5:45AM 2:15PM M-F

The Husbandry Care Technician I is responsible for the husbandry care for the animals. The technician also has direct contact with animals providing husbandry and cage changing. The person cleans cages using cage wash machinery and prepares feed and bedding for the technicians.

• Maintain cage wash equipment: tunnel washer rack washer autoclave

• Maintain cage wash areas

• Order receive and autoclave feed bedding and water

• Process caging

• Clean laundry maintain laundry

• Environmental monitoring on bottle filler rack tunnel washers

• Operate the hydropac system

• Learn and perform euthanasia methods such as CO2 and exsanguination

• Other duties as needed

  Qualifications:

1. High School Diploma or equivalent and one year experience in laboratory animal field or AS/BS degree.

2. 0-3 years of experience

3. 2. Able to perform repetitive procedures
4. 3. Must be adaptable and flexible to meet demands of ever changing work environment
5. 4. Understands and acts on detailed instructions
6. 5. Able to lift 40 pounds. 40 lbs of food-with help if needed

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