laboratory animal technician

• Safely handle, restrain, identify, sex, weigh, transfer, and prepare mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other assigned species.
• Participate in research studies in compliance with approved protocols, Good Laboratory Practices, SOPs, and animal-welfare requirements.
• Perform authorized oral and parenteral dosing, including oral gavage and intraperitoneal, intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous injections.
• Assist veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and researchers with animal examinations, treatments, procedures, and post-procedure monitoring.
• Collect authorized blood and urine specimens using approved, species-appropriate techniques, including rodent jugular vein collection, intravenous, cardiac, and abdominal-aorta blood collection.
• Label, process, store, and transfer specimens according to study protocols, GLP requirements, biosafety procedures, and chain-of-custody standards.
• Accurately document animal observations, dosing, procedures, specimen collection, equipment checks, inventory, and study data.
• Follow PPE, biosecurity, biosafety, sharps, chemical-safety, and controlled-access facility requirements.
• Provide weekend, statutory holiday, and after-hours coverage as scheduled or requested

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $25.50 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 ? 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person