Laboratory Animal Care Specialist

AgUpdate; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

The University at Buffalo Laboratory Animal Facility is seeking an Animal Caretaker to provide daily care of laboratory species, including cleaning rooms and cages, feeding and watering, and following safety protocols.

Duties include monitoring animal health, assisting in veterinary care, handling and transporting animals, maintaining inventories and records, and supporting investigators and technicians in a busy research environment.

Qualifications

• Requires education in a specific field and at least one year of experience directly related to the research or program.
• Experience in a laboratory setting and/or with laboratory animals.
• Animal care work outside of a residential setting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health of animals and room environments and report abnormal conditions.
• Assist in veterinary care, administer treatments and perform other technical procedures.
• Humanely handle, restrain and transport animals.
• Assist principal investigators, students and technicians.
• Operate and maintain equipment used in cage preparation and room sanitation.
• Receive, house, remove and record arrival and departure of animals, maintain animal inventories.
• Perform tasks such as: maintenance of; supply inventories, breeding records, activity logs, sanitation records.

Skills

Laboratory animal experience

Animal care

Lab safety

Job description

The University at Buffalo Laboratory Animal Facility is seeking an Animal Caretaker to provide daily care of laboratory species, including cleaning rooms and cages, feeding and watering, and following safety protocols.

Duties include monitoring animal health, assisting in veterinary care, handling and transporting animals, maintaining inventories and records, and supporting investigators and technicians in a busy research environment.