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The Jackson Laboratory (JAX)Biomedical Research

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

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Attention to detail • 1+ yrs
Animal care • 1+ yrs
Husbandry • 1+ yrs
Colony management • 1+ yrs
Record keeping • 1+ yrs
Sanitation • 1+ yrs
Data entry • 1+ yrs
Physical stamina • 1+ yrs

Experience

0-2 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Operations

Industries

Wildlife & Conservation
Healthcare & Pharma

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

$19 - $19 per hour

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodHourly

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationEllsworth, Maine, United States
Work typeOnsite
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium5/10
physicalHigh8/10
cognitiveMedium7/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityLow2/10
uncertaintyLow3/10
communicationMedium6/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

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 StatesFull Time