Animal Technician

Required Skills & Experience

The Laboratory Animal Resource Center (LARC) supports the research programs of the faculty by providing all services associated with the care and use of laboratory animals (includes rodents) including the purchasing/receiving, daily care and monitoring of the health of all species. The Animal Technician is responsible for the daily care of animals in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Duties include changing cages and racks, delivering food and water in accordance to established procedures, maintaining equipment and animal housing areas according to standard operating procedures and federal and state regulations. Perform record keeping duties such as per-diems records, animal health surveillance, feed logs, temperature/humidity charts, animal receipt and disposition logs and performs other duties as assigned. LARC provides care for various species of laboratory animals housed in multiple LARC research facilities located throughout the city of San Francisco.\n\nUnder direction of the Animal Resources Supervisor or assigned lead, the Animal Technician (AT) has experience, training and is capable of performing all duties within the scope of the job description for Assistant Animal Technicians. Animal Technicians performs assigned duties in a manner that achieves the LARC mission. Animal Technicians are expected to identify problems, remedy and report them immediately. Animal Technicians must ensure the proper care and use of animals and Animal Technicians must be able to perform some technical procedures required within LARC or to support the research effort.\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\n\n1 year of animal handling or lab animal sanitation equipment operations experience required.\nAbility to communicate animal health information to appropriate personnel, maintain legible records for permanent status. All assignments require some use of computer/email.\nGeneral knowledge of feeding, caging, and space requirements for multiple species of laboratory animals used in biomedical research.\nAbility and skills needed to identify animal health concerns and regulatory compliance for their assigned areas and to report conditions to veterinary staff, researchers, and compliance staff.\nFull knowledge of disinfection, sanitation, and cleaning agents; knowledge and ability to use cage washers for cleaning and autoclaves for sterilization of cages.\nGeneral knowledge of federal and other licensing agencies’ regulations.\nSatisfactory job performance ratings at all times during probationary employment period.\nAbility to follow instructions, work independently or in shared assignments with others.\nBasic computer skills (e.g.,e/mail skills, ability to scan cage barcodes, sync PDA’s for submitting Health Surveillance Reports electronically, utilize email account for work-related communications, online training, HBS timesheet submission).\nAbility to follow work rules, including no eating or drinking in animal areas, no smoking at campus facilities.\nAbility to bend, squat, kneel, stand, reach above shoulder level, and move on hard surface for up to 7 hours/day.\nAbility to wear personal protective equipment as required; includes protective clothing, protective glasses, safety shoes and gloves daily , face masks as required, respirator if assigned.\nAbility to push and pull heavy objects and ability to safely move and or lift heavy loads (up to 50 pounds).\n\nEducation, Training and Experience:\n\nGraduation from high school/GED, completion of training equivalent to the Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician certification of the AALAS, and one year of animal care experience; or high school graduation and two years of animal care experience in the care of an animal species appropriate to the particular job; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.

Job Description

**Please note that UCSF's policy is that full medicals are required for all candidates whether status is onsite or hybrid. **\n\nAnimal Technician-onsite Parnassus, 0730-1630. Start ASAP for 26 weeks.\n\nFor this role, we are requiring that the Account Managers conduct a video interview with the candidates. They will monitor for professional attire, if they used a computer or a phone (candidates should not use phones for virtual interviews), if they we're in a quiet, professional setting with no interruptions, and if they were well spoken, etc. If candidates meet all these expectations without being coached to do this, they can be submitted.\n\nScope of Duties: Animal care and room sanitation, animal health, record keeping, maintenance, animal husbandry.