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Must have 6 months or more of general working experience. will train on animal care.

Must be able to work with Animals

Job Description:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Has substantial understanding and knowledge to perform husbandry tasks, including supplying food, bedding, water and environmental enrichment.
• Proficient at maintaining rat and mouse colonies, including setting up matings, weaning and sexing of offspring, genetic sampling of animals, processing samples and other technical tasks as required.
• Proficient at handling rodents (mice and rats), including restraining of animals for collection of fecal pellets, ear/tail sampling as well as tagging animals for identification.
• Has substantial understanding and knowledge to observe animals for any abnormalities or common health issues.
• Has substantial understanding and knowledge to identify and select specific animals for customer shipments, genotyping, health monitoring, matings, transfers or other various tasks as needed.
• Learn, understand, and comply with all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Able to complete new processes/tasks with minimal instruction.
• Strictly follow all animal welfare standards and biosecurity procedures necessary to maintain isolator integrity and animal health status, including the proper sterilization and entry of supplies/animals into isolators.
• Workload contains complex projects and requires judgement in resolving issues and/or in making recommendations. Be detailed-oriented and enter accurate data entry into Internet Colony Management(ICM).
• Ensure compliance with all local, state and federal laws governing the use of research animals.
• Ability to collaborate with others to train and mentor on knowledge and skills learned.
• Ability to self-organize, plan and execute daily tasks.
• Perform general housekeeping and adhere to EHS, safety, and ergonomic procedures.
• Has substantial understanding of using general computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master required computer programs, databases and other applications (i.e. ICM and Microsoft Office)
• Engage in studies, special projects, efficiency improvements, engagement opportunities, etc.
• Identify issues and recommend potential solutions to management.
• Able to effectively apply and incorporate DNA into day-to-day work.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Please make sure to ask about their current pets:

• We require that our employees who work with specific animals avoid being exposed to certain types of animals outside the workplace.
• Employees are restricted from maintaining as pets or coming in regular contact with any animals of the type produced RMS Production facilities, as well as any species of wild or domestic that are in the same family or genus.
  
  
  
  Specifically, RMS employees cannot own and should avoid coming into close personal contact with the following:

• Common laboratory animals traditionally used in research such as mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, or nonhuman primates.
• Wild rodents and related animals such as chinchillas, skunks, squirrels, chipmunks, hedgehogs, opossums, and deer mice.
• The maintenance of animals that would require the feeding of any of the above-mentioned animals (alive or dead). Examples of these species include birds of prey, reptiles that are fed rodents or rabbits, or other animals that would eat laboratory rodents or rabbits as part of their regular diet.
• Raccoons, skunks, and opossums or other similar wild animals that can serve as reservoirs for infectious diseases that can be passed to both animals and man.
• Employees are permitted to keep as pets' traditional domestic animals including dogs, cats, fish, birds, ferrets, and traditional farm animals' species including horses, cattle, sheep, and goats.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
To qualify for this role, candidates must have one of the following combinations of educations/experience:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A./B.S.) plus a minimum of 0-1 years of related experience.
• Associate's Degree (A.A./A.S.) plus a minimum of 1-2 years of related experience.
• High School diploma or GED plus a minimum of 2-4 years related experience.
• Competent with using a tablet computer for data entry and communication (emails, IM's, etc.)
• The ability to develop knowledge of, respect for, and skills to engage with those of other cultures or backgrounds.
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Must possess a high level of initiative and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Proficient in computers (IE: MS Office Suite)
• Competent with using a tablet computer for data entry and communication (emails, IM's, etc.)

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