Animal Care Trainee

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The incumbent works under direct supervision to learn the principles and practice basic animal care, husbandry, colony management, animal room maintenance and operations, information systems and record keeping. The incumbent is expected to progress following a prescribed curriculum, learning objectives and practical performance standards. The incumbent is responsible to learn and demonstrate basic proficiency in all aspects of the Primary Animal Care Training curriculum, including general animal care and husbandry duties, area sanitation, barrier entry/exit and safety procedures.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

• Learn, practice and demonstrate with guidance basic proficiency in animal care, husbandry, colony maintenance, room maintenance and operations, sanitation, record keeping and relevant information systems, standard operating procedures, and staff request. These duties may be conducted with varying requirements dependent on location such as; standard animal room, ABSL-2, hazardous chemical room, dark rooms, and isolators facilities.

• Transports clean and soil supplies through materials airlock.

• Progresses from straight transfer (no pups) to cages w/litter, aging, sexing, and weaning. (RAF) Cage changing according to PI staff requests.

• Successful and accurate daily Welfare check for proper food, water, bedding and wellbeing. Observe & report with guidance variances from health standard.

• Identifies abnormal animals while learning to determine if for Necropsy or Deviant Search.

• Performs inventory discard as required.

• Room Sanitation

Colony Management/Maintaining Colonies (JMCRS)

• Maintains with guidance appropriate breeding scheme(s), program or area specific

• Manage with guidance breeding rotation (make-up, retirement, non-productive units)

• Maintain accurate and legible cage cards and data input

Packing and Shipping

• Learns to select mice basic stock strains of mice for sales orders

• Learns how to ship one detail to multiple detail, internal and external sales orders.

• Learns preparation of shipping containers according to packing guidelines.

Information Processing & General Record Keeping

• Performs basic data entry and records i.e. AX, cage cards)

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED equivalency as well as prior successful work experience is required for all candidates

• Lifting 25lbs on a regular basis

• Walking up a ladder

• Work well in a fast paced environment

• Strong attention to detail

Hourly Wage $19.25hr

About JAX:

The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California), Japan and China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community. For more information, please visit www.jax.org​​​​​​​.

EEO Statement:

The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.