Animal Care Trainee $19.25hr Ellsworth ME

Maine Tech Hub; Ellsworth (ME); On-site; USD 22,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Paid Training

Job summary

The Jackson Laboratory in Ellsworth, Maine is seeking Animal Care Trainees to join the production team. This full-time role offers an hourly wage of $19.25 and a dynamic, supportive work environment with free paid training.

Responsibilities include learning animal care basics, husbandry, colony management, and record keeping in a controlled environment, with progression through a prescribed curriculum and safety procedures.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Strong attention to detail required.
• Ability to lift 25 lbs regularly.
• Capable of working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Learn basic animal care, husbandry, colony maintenance and related operations under supervision.
• Perform daily welfare checks and report health variances.
• Maintain accurate cage cards and data input.
• Assist with packing and shipping per guidelines.
• Assist with breeding rotation and room sanitation.
• Data entry and general record keeping (e.g., AX, cage cards).

Skills

High School diploma or GED

Attention to detail

Lifting 25 lbs

Fast-paced environment

Job description

at The Jackson Laboratory in Ellsworth, Maine, United States

Job Description

Your career begins here at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX)!Free Paid Training!

ANIMAL CARE TRAINEES HOURLY WAGE!$19.25/hr.

Do you have a background in Warehouse, Food Service, Retail/ Customer Service, OR Healthcare?? If so, we want to speak with YOU! MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE!

Join the JAX Animal Care team and be part of a mission to improve human health worldwide. This is a full-time position that offers adynamic and supportive work environment.

Animal Care is part of the production team at JAX and work requires attention to detail, working in a highly controlled clean room environment, fast paced that provides continuous physical movement.

Responsibilities include:
The incumbent works under direct supervision to learn the principles and practice basic animal care, husbandry, colony management, animal room maintenance and operations, information systems and record keeping. The incumbent is expected to progress following a prescribed curriculum, learning objectives and practical performance standards. The incumbent is responsible to learn and demonstrate basic proficiency in all aspects of the Primary Animal Care Training curriculum, including general animal care and husbandry duties, area sanitation, barrier entry/exit and safety procedures.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

Learn, practice and demonstrate with guidance basic proficiency in animal care, husbandry, colony maintenance, room maintenance and operations, sanitation, record keeping and relevant information systems, standard operating procedures, and staff request. These duties may be conducted with varying requirements dependent on location such as; standard animal room, ABSL-2, hazardous chemical room, dark rooms, and isolators facilities.

Transports clean and soil supplies through materials airlock.

Progresses from straight transfer (no pups) to cages w/litter, aging, sexing, and weaning. (RAF) Cage changing according to PI staff requests.

Successful and accurate daily Welfare check for proper food, water, bedding and wellbeing. Observe & report with guidance variances from health standard.

Identifies abnormal animals while learning to determine if for Necropsy or Deviant Search.

Performs inventory discard as required.

Room Sanitation

Maintains with guidance appropriate breeding scheme(s), program or area specific

Manage with guidance breeding rotation (make-up, retirement, non-productive units)

Maintain accurate and legible cage cards and data input

Packing and Shipping

Learns to select mice basic stock strains of mice for sales orders

Learns how to ship one detail to multiple detail, internal and external sales orders.

Learns preparation of shipping containers according to packing guidelines.

Information Processing & General Record Keeping

Performs basic data entry and records i.e. AX, cage cards)

Qualifications

High School diploma or GED equivalency as well as prior successful work experience is required for all candidates

Lifting 25lbs on a regular basis

Walking up a ladder

Work well in a fast paced environment

Strong attention to detail

Hourly Wage $19.25hr

About JAX:
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California),Japan andChina. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community. For more information, please visitwww.jax.org.

EEO Statement:
The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.