Animal Research Tech III

Pre-Clinical | Offers Benefits | Excellent Growth Opportunity

Job Description

This position supports the surgical team and involves a variety of tasks related to the care and maintenance of experimental animals used in research and development studies.

Responsibilities

• Care for the animals used in research and development studies.
• Perform duties related to the maintenance of experimental animals, including feeding, caring for animals, cleaning cages, and maintaining inventory and animal identification records.
• Clean and sanitize the animal facility and equipment.
• Ensure biosafety and biosecurity of the animals.
• Partner with preclinical investigators to assist and support veterinarians with surgery, dosing, postoperative care, and monitoring of animal studies.
• Provide technical support in areas such as production operations, maintenance, safety testing, process improvement, or product development.
• Use schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions, or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment, or systems.
• Gather, maintain, format, compile, and manipulate technical data using established formulae and procedures and perform detailed mathematical calculations.
• Suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.
• Run minor projects including performing tests, interpreting data, and developing reports.
• Perform technical activities requiring considerable judgment and may have ownership of minor projects.
• Independently propose solutions to problems for supervisor review.
• Communicate typically with internal contacts, obtaining and providing technical information on matters of moderate importance to the job area.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within the job area.

Essential Skills

• Animal research
• Preclinical expertise
• Animal handling
• Veterinary science
• Veterinary technician skills
• Animal husbandry
• Anesthesia

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of surgical experience
• Certified Veterinary Technician
• Basic math skills for calculating dosages
• 1+ years of previous anesthesia experience
• Comfortable being client-facing during internal partner visits
• Positive attitude verified by references

Work Environment

The role requires comfort working within the preclinical industry, supporting both animal surgeries (75%) and cadaver studies (25%). Start times typically range between 6 am and 8 am for an 8-hour shift. The position involves some weekend work and offers overtime at time and a half.