Animal Care Specialist

New Jersey Institute of Technology; United States; On-site; USD 38,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

The Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology is seeking a part-time Animal Care Specialist to oversee the care and welfare of aquatic and other organisms with diverse care requirements. The preferred schedule is Fridays and weekends, up to 24 hours per week.

The role involves maintaining life support systems, monitoring environmental parameters, ensuring IACUC compliance, and fabricating culture tanks as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Biology or a related field.
• At least one year of full-time experience in aquatic animal husbandry.
• Experience managing aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates preferred.
• At least one year of experience managing quarantine systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Culturing a wide variety of aquatic organisms, including freshwater, brackish, and marine species.
• Perform general husbandry of jellyfish, marine arthropods, other aquatic invertebrates, and freshwater fish.
• Maintain compliance with IACUC guidelines.
• Manage fish quarantine systems and identify needs for veterinary intervention.
• Maintain and troubleshoot life support systems for cultured animals.
• Fabricate tanks and components, and build new culture systems as needed.
• Monitor environmental variables (temperature, lighting, water quality, salinity, feeding, filtration) to optimize health.
• Keep accurate records of care, health status, and life cycle events.

Skills

Aquatic husbandry

Quarantine systems

Environmental monitoring

Recordkeeping

Education

Bachelor's degree in Biology

Tools

Life support systems

Job description

Title:

Animal Care Specialist

Reports To:

Chair

Position Summary:

The Department of Biological Sciences is seeking an experienced, part-time Animal Care Specialist to oversee the care and welfare of aquatic and other organisms with diverse care requirements. The preferred schedule is Fridays and weekends, up to 24 hours per week.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrate experience and familiarity with best practices for culturing a wide variety of aquatic organisms and ant colonies, including freshwater, brackish, and marine vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
• Perform general husbandry of animal collections, including jellyfish, marine arthropods/crustaceans, other aquatic invertebrates, and freshwater teleost fish.
• Maintain compliance with University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines.
• Manage quarantine systems, particularly fish quarantine systems, and identify potential needs for veterinary intervention.
• Maintain complex life support systems for cultured animals.
• Fabricate and select tanks and other components of culture systems and build new culture systems as needed.
• Monitor, record, and adjust environmental variables, including temperature, lighting, water quality, salinity, food sources, and filtration systems, to optimize animal health and reproductive viability.
• Maintain accurate and detailed records of animal care, maintenance, health status, and life cycle events.

Pre-requisite Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Biology or a related field.
• At least one year of full-time experience in aquatic animal husbandry.
• Experience managing aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates preferred.
• At least one year of experience managing quarantine systems preferred.

Department:

Biological Sciences

Compensation:

$33/hour

At the university's discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university an equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position.

Range:

Hourly Employees

NJIT considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, or other items.

FLSA:

Non-Exempt

Time Type:

Part time

Pay Rate:

Hourly

Additional Information:

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