Vivarium Ops Technician II - Client-Facing Lead

Mispro Biotech Services Corporation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 37,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Mispro Biotech Services Corporation in San Diego, CA is seeking an Animal Care Technician II to provide daily animal husbandry and vivarium operations support. The role includes cage changes, animal care, and client communications while ensuring compliance with federal, state, local, and accrediting regulations.

The position offers hands-on animal care responsibilities, potential for lead duties in absence of Site Lead, and a stable full-time role based in San Diego with focus on animal welfare

Responsibilities

• Perform animal husbandry (daily checks, cage changes, clinical follow up) for predominantly rodent species
• Recognize and respond to standard rodent clinical conditions; perform basic veterinary care/treatment functions
• Receive and house animal deliveries while confirming conditions of animal shipment (animal health, genders, numbers of animals, IDs)
• Perform euthanasia as required to ensure animal welfare and appropriate colony management
• Recognize and report environmental deviations (temp, humidity, lighting, HAVC, noise, odor)
• Perform facility sanitation and participate in decontamination efforts
• Support waste management practices/compliance (RMW, Path/Chemo, lab waste, recycling, composting)
• Receive and maintain common consumables (PPE, caging, diet, etc)
• Submit animal orders and print cage cards
• Provide ad interim site leadership in absence of Site Lead and Supervisor
• Maintain on-going communications with Clients within assigned spaces
• Recognize and elevate Client concerns with animal care, environment and Mispro services
• Provide regular updates to Clients regarding animal conditions and basic support requests (clinical updates, breeding progress, restocking of consumables, waste management, sanitation)
• Maintain cage change schedules in alignment with in-room Client activity
• Ensure appropriate entries into sign-offs and accurate documentation of activities
• Support compliance with all institutional (IACUC, QA), governmental (EPA, PHS, USDA) and accrediting (AAALACi) protocols & policies
• Develop familiarity with Mispro SOPs and maintain standards with updates/revisions

Job description

Mispro Biotech Services Corporation in San Diego, CA is seeking an Animal Care Technician II to provide daily animal husbandry and vivarium operations support. The role includes cage changes, animal care, and client communications while ensuring compliance with federal, state, local, and accrediting regulations.

The position offers hands-on animal care responsibilities, potential for lead duties in absence of Site Lead, and a stable full-time role based in San Diego with focus on animal welfare