Lab Technician or Associate, Comparative Medicine (2 Year Contract)

Lab Technician or Associate, Comparative Medicine (2 Year Contract)

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will support animal-based studies, husbandry, and vivarium operations while providing technical and laboratory support for in vivo research.

Responsibilities

• Perform husbandry activities such as cage changing, cage wash, facility sanitation, and routine maintenance activities.
• Assist with veterinary health monitoring and triage activities as needed.
• Perform safe handling and restraint of rodents.
• Support vivarium operations, including 5S (Lean management), inventory management, and facility organization.
• Develop technical competence and proficiency in in vivo methods (e.g., dosing, sample collection, physiological monitoring) and laboratory procedures for animal models; apply these skills while following established study protocols and animal health care procedures.
• Collaborate with management, veterinarians, peers, and research partners to support vivarium operations and animal-based studies.
• Demonstrate and apply knowledge of biosecurity principles, including opportunistic disease transmission, prevention, and control.
• Recognize routine technical problems and recommend or implement solutions within established procedures, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Recognize and respond appropriately to facility alarms following established procedures.
• Follow guidance documents, methods, and study protocols to support animal-based studies.