animal breeder technician graduate program

ANIMAL BREEDER TECHNICIAN GRADUATE PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL

Reporting all deviations in animal room environments through Chain of CommandĦ. Operating within a noise and vibration monitored environment to protect research models from disruptive confounding and breeding sensitive impactĮ. Tracking and documenting relative humidity (RH) every 24 hours as impacted by ambient environment with attention to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animal standards for acceptable ranges per speciesĭ. Tracking and documenting temperature range every 24 hours within strict tolerances across all holding rooms according to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals standards with minimum and maximum ranges per speciesĬ. Monitoring and ensuring appropriate photoperiod cycle daily: setting and assessing room mechanical timer for appropriate operation on 24-hour cycle for 14-hour day and 10-hour dark cycleī.

Responsible for monitoring animal room environments:Ī. Provide medicated and antibiotic water exposure and twice daily monitoring and documentation for multiple studies across both facilities.ĥ.

Responsible for monitoring Reverse Osmosis/De-Ionized, 18Megaohm ultra-pure water available at cage level and at Room Distribution Systems.Ĥ. Responsible for feeding and twice daily monitoring of specialized diets to include irradiated, research designated diets, hazardous and chemically fortified feeds.ģ. Responsible to maintain strict aseptic and micro isolator technique in handling of all rodent animal model populations housed within the AHSP and Davis facility holding rooms and procedural spaces to prevent cross-contamination and protect immunocompromised animal models on a daily basis with adherence to a Day 7 and Day 14 husbandry schedule.Ģ.

ANIMAL BREEDER TECHNICIAN GRADUATE PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL

Incumbent must be a motivated self-starter with high Performance metrics, good Commitment to teamwork practices, and excellent Businesslike and Professional Behavior including observing appropriate Chain of Command at all times, and employing good communication skills in English.ġ. The Technician monitors research models for clinical/biological abnormalities, performs daily monitoring/documentation of environmental conditions, and electronic population census with documentation for per diem support and IACUC protocol accountability. This will include maintaining hazardous agents (biological, chemical, radiation), pathogenic agents and carcinogenic/mutagenic populations post postsurgical or procedural exposure with the use of specific Personal Protective Equipment and Specialized Operating Procedures (SOPs). The incumbent performs Husbandry, housing and care of rodents in Micro Isolator units within Individual Ventilated Cage Rack HEPA systems via Animal Transfer Stations or Biological Safety Cabinets within Biocontainment and Bioexclusion parameters under strict environmental controls. Under the general supervision of the Associate Director, Husbandry/Operations (AD, HT/OPS), Operations Manager, Animal Care Coordinator, Husbandry Supervisor and/or Animal Laboratory Technician III (Lead Technician), the incumbent is responsible for performing technical, specialized and aseptic procedures in support of the Cedars-Sinai transgenic rodent research models of human disease in the Davis and AHSP facilities. Do you have a passion for the highest clinical quality and patient happiness? Would you like to use your clinical competencies with an organization known nationally for excellence in cancer treatment, research and education? We would be happy to hear from you! Please consider the following exciting opportunity with one of the most outstanding and dynamic places to work in the medical field as your next career move.

Animal breeder technician graduate program