Cagewash Technician, ARC

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Works under constant supervision to provide care and maintenance of laboratory animals and animal facilities.

Requirements

• No experience required.
• High School graduation or GED

Responsibilities

• Comply with and wear required personal protective equipment.
• Operate cage washing and processing equipment, perform appropriate start-up and shut-down procedures.
• Thoroughly clean and monitor equipment throughout the day and report equipment failures to the supervisor.
• Maintain high quality sanitization.
• Recognize the facility's equipment needs and rapidly processes appropriate equipment.
• Maintain cagewash logs and steam strip logs.
• Operate autoclave equipment.
• Clean and maintain autoclave equipment.
• Report equipment failures and maintains autoclave log books.
• Evaluate and prepare extra equipment and deliver sterile equipment to appropriate storage rooms.
• Process animal caging through the cagewash equipment.
• Add appropriate bedding and enrichment to animal caging.
• Examine equipment for cracks or malfunctioned parts, reject unclean or broken equipment.
• Clean and maintain multiple support areas (storage rooms, restrooms, break rooms, and procedure rooms) as well as main hallways.
• Utilize appropriate techniques and chemicals to ensure sanitization of all surfaces.
• Accurately request, sort, and organize routine supplies to meet area needs.
• Provide supply requests in a timely manner to supervisor.
• Correctly apply appropriate techniques and chemicals to maintain facility floors.
• Routinely sweep and mop.
• Utilize floor machines to effectively remove buildup of wax and debris.
• Follow appropriate safety procedures.
• Perform housekeeping duties and laundry.
• Keep machines cleaned and well-maintained.
• Maintain required attendance level and adherence to set work schedule in accordance with required staffing levels in order to ensure that assigned duties are completed.
• Ability to work weekends as assigned.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED