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Job Category:
University Staff
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Profile:
Animal Care Technician I
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 team. This position will be responsible for performing routine and specialized animal husbandry tasks and general facility maintenance for the Clinical Sciences Center and Rennebohm Pharmacy vivaria in Biomedical Research Model Services (BRMS). These duties include general animal husbandry, feeding and watering animals, 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. This position interacts with researchers and veterinary staff as required. Other duties are to be assigned by the supervisor. This position would be working with rodents, guinea pigs, rabbits and swine. We offer flexible hours after passing the probationary period, holiday pay, extra hourly differential pay for weekend hours worked as well as additional hourly pay for each level of AALAS certification.
This position requires work to be completed onsite, at a designated campus work location.
Monday through Friday 7:00a.m.- 3:30p.m. Occasional weekend and holiday work required.
Applicants for this position will be considered for the following titles Animal Care Technician I and Animal 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
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.
Inventories, cleans, and maintains organization of animal holding spaces and supplies
Assists with preparing food and formulas and feeds animals according to established schedules and specifications.
Department:
School of Medicine and Public Health, Biomedical Research Model Services, Animal Care
Biomedical Research Model Services is here to assist researchers in making significant discoveries in biological and medical science while ensuring the health and well-being of all animals in our care. Our goal is to maintain facilities and provide services and care that exceed the standards of regulatory and funding agencies. We strive to create a safe and welcoming workplace.
University Of Wisconsin-madison · Madison, WI