Animal Care Trainee
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full Time
Experience
0-2 years
Compensation
$19 - $19 per hour
Posted
11h ago
Summary and responsibilities
Role overview
Summary
The Animal Care Trainee will learn and practice basic animal care, husbandry, and colony management under direct supervision. This role involves maintaining animal rooms, performing sanitation, record keeping, and assisting with packing and shipping of research mice in a fast-paced, highly controlled clean room environment.
Join the JAX Animal Care team and be part of a mission to improve human health worldwide. This is a full-time position that offers a dynamic and supportive work environment.
Animal Care is part of the production team at JAX and work requires attention to detail, working in a highly controlled clean room environment, fast paced that provides continuous physical movement.
Responsibilities include:
Learn the principles and practice basic animal care, husbandry, colony management, animal room maintenance and operations, information systems and record keeping under direct supervision.
Progress following a prescribed curriculum, learning objectives and practical performance standards.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Ability to lift 25lbs on a regular basis.
Ability to walk up a ladder.
Ability to work well in a fast paced environment.
Strong attention to detail.
Updated 5h ago
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Experience
0-2 years
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Employment
Full Time
Contract duration
Permanent
Hiring type
Direct
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Compensation
$19 - $19 per hour
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Company
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX)
Team size
Growing team
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States
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.
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Animal Care Trainee
Ellsworth, Maine, United States • Full Time