Salary Range: 34 to 38 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-hour-wage)

In this role you will:

• Maintain the highest standards of animal welfare and biosecurity
• Maintain our animal colony by performing routine husbandry such as (cage changing, feeding and watering, providing environmental enrichment) as well as conducting animal health observations, animal receipt, and basic health treatments and animal receiving
• Contribute to facility upkeep and cleanliness; performing cleaning, decontamination of animal holding and procedure rooms with excellent quality and rigor
• Perform vivarium-based initiatives independently and provide guidance to other team members as needed
• Learn to provide assistance with in vivo experiments by performing basic biomethodology (handling, restraint, body weight collection, behavioral assays, weaning, genotyping)
• Routinely fill out important laboratory records, such as daily animal health check logs, room temperature/humidity readings, etc

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have an interest in or have had exposure to working with rodents in research or laboratory setting  
• Have an interest in or have had exposure to animal breeding and colony management
• Can work a flexible schedule, weekends and holiday work are required but shared among the team
• Have worked on something requiring high attention to detail and/or accurate documentation or record keeping
• Are familiar with GSuite: Google Sheets and Google Docs
• ALAT, LAT certification is nice to have but not required