Job Description
Job Description
We are seeking an Animal Care Technician to join our Insourcing Solutions team located in Cambridge, MA.
As an Animal Care Technician, you will perform routine animal husbandry tasks, including cleaning, feeding, and watering laboratory animals; cleaning cages and related equipment; and maintaining animal care environments within the Charles River Accelerator & Development Labs (CRADL) animal facility.
Key Responsibilities
- Handle, transfer, and deliver animals, supplies (including caging, gases, dry ice, and liquid nitrogen), and waste to and from work areas as needed.
- Perform daily cage duties, including recycling and scheduled sanitation procedures.
- Monitor daily animal health and welfare while conducting routine health observations.
- Operate cage washers and autoclaves to sterilize caging equipment and instruments.
- Maintain quality assurance documentation, including temperature strips, room environmental reports and logs, and washer or autoclave logs.
- Perform animal husbandry duties to maintain the quality and health of research animals, including daily water bottle and cage checks, providing appropriate food and water, performing cage changes and cleaning, and recording animal health concerns in accordance with SOPs and specified protocols.
- Communicate procedural questions or training needs to the Team Lead or Facility Supervisor.
- Perform humane euthanasia in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
- Monitor client rack and row assignments in shared animal holding rooms to ensure proper labeling and assignment based on facility needs.
- Maintain a clean and organized work environment, including animal rooms, corridors, cage wash areas, procedure rooms, anterooms, storage areas, and grounds, following established cleaning procedures and schedules.
Job Qualifications
Required:
• High school diploma, General Education Degree (G.E.D.) or equivalent required.
Preferred:
• Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) in animal or life sciences field preferred
• Experience: Directly related laboratory animal experience in a laboratory animal facility preferred.
• Certification/Licensure: Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician (ALAT) certification from AALAS preferred.
The pay range for this position is $20-$23 USD per hour. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.