Animal Care Technician II - Veterinary & Research Support

Charles River; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentives

401K

Paid time off

Stock purchase program

Health and wellness coverage

Employee and family wellbeing support

Job summary

Charles River in Baltimore, MD is seeking an Animal Care Technician II for the Insourcing Solutions Team. The role provides husbandry and veterinary assistance for laboratory animals including rodents and reports on health findings.

Responsibilities include daily care, cage changes, health observations, environmental monitoring, logbook updates, enrichment, and occasional weekend/holiday duty; euthanasia performed with proper procedures.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 2-3 years related experience in animal care with at least one year of that time working with laboratory animal species, most applicable rodents and non-human primates preferred.
• ALAT certification at hire preferred or ALAT within one year of hire required.

Responsibilities

• Perform animal husbandry duties including but not limited to preparation and actual changing of animal cages and related cage accessories of small, feeding and manual watering.
• Prepare caging for cagewash, including scraping floor grids, breaking down caging and dumping pans or scraping cages.
• Perform daily animal health observations and report any abnormal conditions or behavior of animals to the Immediate Supervisor, Facility Manager, Veterinary Technician, and/or Clinical Veterinarian.
• Clean assigned animal rooms, facility and animal care equipment and associated animal facility areas.
• Monitor and report any irregularities in the room temperature, light cycles, air changes, and other environmental conditions that may affect animals.
• Ensure all logbooks, checklists and other records are completed accurately in a timely fashion.
• Provide environmental enrichment feed and other enrichment stimuli and/ or provide behavioral assessments.
• Provide lead role on assigned weekends/holidays
• Perform euthanasia using correct procedures

Skills

Animal care

Rodent handling

Health observations

Education

High school diploma or GED

ALAT certification

Job description

Charles River in Baltimore, MD is seeking an Animal Care Technician II for the Insourcing Solutions Team. The role provides husbandry and veterinary assistance for laboratory animals including rodents and reports on health findings.

Responsibilities include daily care, cage changes, health observations, environmental monitoring, logbook updates, enrichment, and occasional weekend/holiday duty; euthanasia performed with proper procedures.