Lab Animal Care Technician I

Mount Sinai Medical Center; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Comparative Medicine Tech I to support routine animal care, sanitation, and facility maintenance in the animal facility. Responsibilities include cage washing, PPE stocking, and maintaining temperature records for autoclaves and rack washers, while complying with BSL-2/BSL-3 waste handling guidelines.

Daily tasks involve providing clean cages, water, and food, ensuring equipment functions properly, and maintaining a safe work environment.

Qualifications

• H.S./G.E.D.
• Minimum 6 months of animal care experience
• Purina Test

Responsibilities

• Provide animals with clean cages, water, and food. Identify functional caging equipment and reports equipment maintenance. Sanitize cages using washroom equipment. Removal of waste material such as bedding, trash etc.
• Ensure clean and operating equipment (racks and biological cabinets). Make adjustments to equipment as needed and make minor decisions in use of equipment. Understand the function of various equipment within facility (tunnel washer, rack washer, autoclave, bottle filler, etc.) to prevent damage or loss of time.
• Provide a clean and safe work environment. Report facility damage to supervisor.
• Maintain clean work area. Sanitize and disinfect cage wash, equipment and other facility areas. Identify, record, and report environmental conditions.
• Record and report issues to supervisor and/or veterinary staff. Comply with institutional certifications and requirements for working with infectious disease waste from BSL-2 and/or BSL-3 environment.
• Ability to follow detailed written instructions in performing routine work paying close attention to details. Record cage census as required.
• Provide a clean and safe atmosphere for animals, employees, and facility users. Contribute and recommend new ideas and input on problem solving issues.
• Participate in departmental training of various areas comprising animal, facility, and employment-related issues. Contribute to the workforce and environment by exhibiting newly learned skills and sharing newly found knowledge with others. Prepare for ALAT certification.

Job description

Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Comparative Medicine Tech I to support routine animal care, sanitation, and facility maintenance in the animal facility. Responsibilities include cage washing, PPE stocking, and maintaining temperature records for autoclaves and rack washers, while complying with BSL-2/BSL-3 waste handling guidelines.

Daily tasks involve providing clean cages, water, and food, ensuring equipment functions properly, and maintaining a safe work environment.