Biological Science Laboratory Technician (Animal)

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Provides daily (including weekends, holidays, and occasional evenings) care, feeding, and welfare assessments.

Makes observations concerning normal exercise and movement, rate of growth, weight change, appetite, feces, skin lesions, and discolored or rough fur or skin.

Adapts to working with multiple species of livestock and traditional research animals within a variety of housing styles.

Performs a variety of technical duties such as observations, sample collection or administration of medications or treatments to animals when requested and contributes ideas toward the planning and sequencing of the technical aspects of the studies.

Captures and restrains animals according to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and research protocols.

Maintains inventory of chemicals, preparing solutions and disinfectants for use in live animal facilities, animal transport equipment including vehicles, conducting necropsy, and for safely disposing of waste material (both chemical and biological) according to biocontainment requirements of each protocol, housing, and processing facility.

Adapts and modifies conditions as requested by veterinary team or supervisor, overseeing care, and exactly following behavioral observation plans that need to be customized for each individual animal in their area of responsibility.

Participates with animal care unit personnel on animal scheduling for experiments and maintains animal medical records in the electronic system.

Maintains strict, detailed, and complete records for each individual animal and procedure, to include scientific interventions, and daily veterinary medical interventions, separating the observations and entries by type of data.

Ensures the collection and quality of daily and periodic animal-specific and environmental quality measures such as feed consumption, body weight, body temperature, environmental temperature, air flow status and direction are accurately documented.