Senior Animal Technician, Animal Resource Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

10h • Onsite

About The Position

Works under general supervision to apply advanced animal husbandry and sterile techniques to provide stable environmental conditions for laboratory animals.

Requirements

• High School Diploma High School graduation or equivalent or Vocational school
• Six (6) months experience as an Animal Technician with High School Diploma or equivalent or Vocational school or 2 years Experience as Animal Technician or its equivalent in facility comparable to the Animal Resources Center
• Post offer pre-employment testing
• Ability to work weekends or holidays on a rotating basis as assigned.
• Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time.
• May be required to shower/change clothes between functions.
• Ability to read and understand oral/written instructions in English.
• Ability to work while wearing personnel protective equipment for prolonged periods of time to duties.

Responsibilities

• Provide animal husbandry in quarantine, isolation, biohazard, conventional, or barrier-sustained areas.
• Receive, identify, and house selected animal species; maintain related records.
• Assist with restraint, handling, and manipulation of various animal species as assigned by the on-site Supervisor.
• Receive, inspect and pack/unpack animals for transport; ensure and provide for sentinel animals in each rodent housing area and comply with the current rodent sentinel SOP.
• Prepare special diets or watering in accordance with principal investigators' protocols, and ensure special diets are provided to correct animals.
• Administer commonly used and easily administered treatments or medications as directed by veterinary staff.
• Assist in specialized monitoring and surveillance programs.
• Review, comprehend, and comply with all SOPs and quality assurance standards pertaining to specific area.
• Maintain accurate departmental animal housing or support area record keeping.
• May assist in maintenance of breeding programs.
• Monitor daily animal health and welfare while performing daily animal health observations, animal husbandry duties to maintain quality of health of research animals, to include: perform daily water/cage checks; provide appropriate food and water; perform cage changing and/or cage cleaning as required; observe all animals and record animal health concerns per SOP and/or specified protocols.
• Order, receive, and distribute feed, bedding, and general supplies; maintain related records.
• Participate in providing on-the-job training and mentorship of Animal Technicians, Animal Care Attendants and Trainees.
• May provide direction and guidance to Animal Technicians.
• Comply with and wear required personal protective equipment.
• Operate equipment and use supplies according to safety guidelines.
• Perform basic general housekeeping and adhere to safety procedures.
• Sanitize facilities, animal housing units, and ancillary animal care equipment.
• Observe and report problems involving animal care equipment and environmental support systems.
• Perform tasks of lower level technicians or attendants as needed.
• Maintain required attendance level and adherence to work schedule in accordance with required staffing levels in order to ensure that assigned duties are completed.
• Ability to work weekends or holidays on a rotating basis as assigned.
• Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time.
• May be required to shower/change clothes between functions.
• Ability to read and understand oral/written instructions in English.
• Ability to work while wearing personnel protective equipment for prolonged periods of time to duties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 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: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED