Overview
Lead Animal Care Technician Jobs in Princeton, New Jersey, USA at Princeton University
Overview
The Lead Animal Technician is responsible for maintaining adequate supplies of food, caging, and bedding materials including PPE. He/she will work together with other animal care technicians according to a schedule prepared by the Facilities Manager and must be willing and able to rotate through all LAR facilities. The Lead Animal Technician ensures the highest quality of laboratory animal care and research support, and has goodcommunication skillswith co-workers, management team, PIs, research staff, students, facility maintenance crews, and other support services.
The Lead Animal Technician will cross-train and provide absentee support for other animal care technicians for their facility. He/she will be willing to rotate with other animal care technicians for week night, weekend, and holiday coverage as needed.
Additional responsibilities include and are not limited to the following tasks throughout their respective site and support husbandry staff.
The Lead Animal Care Technician is responsible for ensuring thatcommunicationand understanding is occurring amongst the technicians for their facility. This will include reviewing LAR emails and posting critical information in the lunch/break area/office area.
The Lead Animal Technician is responsible for maintaining adequate supplies of food, caging, and bedding materials including Personal Protective Equipment – making sure that all internal research supplies are ordered, stocked, and in compliance as it relates to expirations, dated, and properly tagged for accreditation purposes.
The Lead Animal Technician will work together with other animal care technicians according to a schedule prepared by the Facilities Manager and must be willing and able to rotate through all LAR facilities to ensure daily operational efficacy and fulfillment of duties.
The Lead Animal Technician will assist in cross-training all new and existing animal care technicians and provide absentee support for other animal care technicians for their facility. The Lead Animal Technician is willing to rotate with other animal care technicians for week night, weekend, and holiday coverage as needed.
The Lead Animal Care Technician will bring facility issues and concerns to LAR management.
The Lead Animal Care Technician will carry the LAR phone with them during work hours. The Lead Animal Care Technician will assist management withdynamicscheduling if someone calls out sick (single days). The Lead Animal Care Technician will be responsible for fixing Avidity issues during work hours and after work hours on a rotational schedule. The Lead Animal Care Technician will communicate with LAR management for work orders and vendor repair calls.
Qualifications
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities
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Basic knowledge of biology and behavior of laboratory animal species including AQUATICS.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a laboratory animal resources team and ability to share husbandry knowledge with other animal care staff, students, and new researchers.
Proven ability to work independently and communicate well with different levels within the organization, and work well with adiverse teamfor a common goal consistent with the mission of the Laboratory Animal Resources Department.
Knowledge of federal, state, and local Animal Welfare legislation and sound judgment on how to balance optimal animal care, research goals, andregulatory compliance.
Ability to handle assignm…
Title: Lead Animal Care Technician
Company: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Category: Healthcare, Outdoor/Nature/Animal Care
