Animal Health Tech from Joulé

Title: Animal Health Tech
Location: Rockville, MD
Schedule: M-F 8 am-5 pm
Type: 6 contract, with the possibility of becoming permanent
Start date: Immediate

Responsibilities:

• Duties include but are not limited to: Receive, examining, transferring, identifying, and properly housing incoming animal shipments according to SOP's.
• Provide food, water, and environmental enrichment to animals following SOP's or approved ASP's.
• Perform daily animal health surveillance checks and report any abnormal conditions of either the animals or the animal room environment to supervisory staff.
• Perform routine animal husbandry.
• Perform prescribed treatments on animals as directed by the veterinarian.
• Maintain a daily animal census in assigned animal rooms.
• Humanely sacrifice animals designated for euthanasia in accordance with the appropriate ASP's and facility SOP's.
• Understand and follow SOP's, safety procedures, and quality assurance guidelines for animal care.
• Prepare and submit records, charts, logs, cage cards, and inventories as required by SOP's.
• Maintain clean and organized work and personal areas.
• Sanitize and decontaminate all areas of the facility in accordance with cleaning schedules.

Requirements:

• B.S. degree preferred but not required, AALAS ALAT certification preferred by not required if the candidate holds an advanced degree in Animal Science or a related field.
• Previous rodent technical experience mandatory (handling/restraint, identification methods, injections – all routes (specifically I.V. injections), genotype sampling, blood collection – all routes (specifically retro-orbital), gavage and oral dosing, medication/ anesthetics/analgesics administration and dosage calculations, euthanasia, irradiation, sentinel sample collection, organectomy, surgery experience with osmotic pump placement, surgical room prep, preparation and sterilization of surgery packs, insertion/removal of sutures and wound clips; breeding and colony maintenance; assessment and treatment of sick animals)
• Must achieve ALAT certification after 1 year of experience and within 18 months of hire.
• Previous rodent caretaking experience preferred unless candidate holds AALAS certification at the ALAT/LAT level or has an advanced degree in Animal Science or a related field.
• Candidate must have attention to detail and be able to multi-task.

Joule, a System One division is a leader in specialized workforce solutions and integrated services. With more than 6,000 employees and roughly 50 offices throughout the U.S. we provide scientific, clinical, engineering, energy, IT, legal and administrative staffing services. For more than 40 years, we have delivered workforce solutions and integrated services to clients nationally.

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