Animal Care Technician (18 month fixed term contract)

Inotiv; Belton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Animal Care Technician for an 18-month fixed-term contract. This role is vital for ensuring the well-being of rabbits and rodents in a production facility. You will be responsible for feeding, cleaning, and breeding, while also keeping detailed records of animal care activities. The company offers extensive training and development opportunities, allowing you to grow your career. If you are detail-oriented and passionate about animal welfare, this is a great opportunity to make a difference in the lives of animals while advancing your career.

Benefits

33 days holiday (including 8 public holidays)

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing portal with fitness resources

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in animal development and breeding.
• Comfortable handling and holding rabbits or rodents.

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional care to rabbits and rodents.
• Keep accurate records of breeding, feeding, and cleaning.

Skills

Attention to detail

Animal handling

Teamwork

Education

Qualification in animal care

Experience in animal-related environment

Job description

Animal Care Technician (18 month fixed term contract)

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Our team are passionate about animal welfare and love working with rabbits and rodents.

Does this sound like you?

In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring the well-being of our animals, providing exceptional care to rabbits and rodents, including feeding, cleaning and breeding responsibilities in a production facility.

We’ll support your training and development to learn new skills and experiences which will allow you to both progress in your role, and also to your next role. You’ll have the opportunity to continue to progress your career as far as you want to. Our Team Leaders, Supervisors and Operations teams once started their careers as Animal Care Technicians.

If you're hardworking, detail-oriented and have a passion for animals, then we’d love for you to be a part of our team.

About You

You have a genuine interest in animal development and breeding, and you’re comfortable handling and holding rabbits or rodents.

You either have a qualification in animal care (or similar), or previous experience working in an animal related environment (handling and caring for animals).

Attention to detail is key in this role as you’ll be keeping accurate records of breeding, feeding, cleaning and animal care activities. You’ll also coordinate order details, including selection, packaging, ensuring accuracy at all times.

You’re a great team player, you’re flexible to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis and are happy to work overtime if it’s needed.

Location/Benefits:

This is a full-time, 18 month fixed term contract, based at our Hillcrest site in Belton, just outside of Loughborough.

As an Animal Technician, there are a range of hours you’ll work across, these are all based on the areas you’ll work in. Some of our teams start at 05:00, and some of our teams finish at 17:00. We try to be as flexible as possible to accommodate your needs – we do however all finish by 14:00 on Fridays.

• A starting salary of £25,982 (or more with experience).
• 33 days holiday (inc. 8 public holidays) and a generous holiday purchase scheme (up to 15 additional days).
• Core benefits including life assurance and pension, plus income protection after 3 years of service.
• Flexible benefits scheme, with optional private health insurance, health cash plan, technology scheme, cycle to work and retail discounts.
• Wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme and our wellbeing portal with fitness videos, recipes and mindfulness exercises, plus much more.
  
  

Due to the nature of this role, candidates cannot have pet rodents (mice, rats, guinea-pigs) or rabbits for biosecurity reasons. Please make us aware if you have animals that feed on rodents (snakes, birds).

Candidates must be able to drive due to limited public transport.

About Us

Inotiv is a growing contemporary drug discovery and development company where we “Play to Win” in an industry rich with opportunity. Together, we face challenges and together we win in the delivery of world-class drug discovery and development solutions that impact the health and well-being of people all over the world. There’s an opportunity for everyone at all phases of a career, each individual’s unique skill set has an impact on the work we conduct. If you have the talent and desire to impact the quality of people’s lives, we have the career opportunities to make it happen. Join us in embracing research and science to impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.

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Inotiv is a growing contemporary drug discovery and development company where we “Play to Win” in an industry rich with opportunity. Together, we face challenges and together we win in the delivery of world-class drug discovery and development solutions that impact the health and well-being of people all over the world. There’s an opportunity for everyone at all phases of a career, each individual’s unique skill set has an impact on the work we conduct. If you have the talent and desire to impact the quality of people’s lives, we have the career opportunities to make it happen. Join us in embracing research and science to impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.

Salary Will Be Commensurate With Experience And Responsibilities.

Inotiv is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including selection, job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits and training.

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