Animal Care Trainee $19.25hr Ellsworth ME

About the role

• 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 a dynamic 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

Colony Management/Maintaining Colonies (JMCRS)

• 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

Pay and benefits

Hourly Wage $19.25hr