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Overview
The role of the Division of Animal Resources (DAR) is to facilitate research and teaching with animals at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. The Tufts Farm and Laboratory Animal Medicine Service (LAMS) are integral units of the DAR. We maintain teaching and production herds of many common agricultural species including dairy heifers, beef cattle, horses, small ruminants, poultry as well as several other lab animal species.
The role of the Laboratory Animal Medicine Service is to facilitate research and teaching with animals at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. To do this, LAMS develops and implements a high-quality program of animal care and use to enable the teaching and research activities of the school. This program is characterized by a high level of client service, strong veterinary expertise, effective technical service delivery, quality animal housing and care, compliance with federal and state regulations and maintenance of AAALAC accreditation.
What You’ll Do
With a high degree of autonomy, judgement, and skill, provide excellent husbandry, and care for a wide variety of laboratories and teaching animals. Specific animal duties include receipt and transport, provision of food and water, changing and cleaning of cages, monitoring health and welfare, documentation of census and animal health records, handling and restraint, sanitation of caging and rooms. Operation of various equipment and transport vehicles. Train and assess competency of new hires. Provide technical support for experimental procedures. The candidate must be committed to the humane handling and care of animals used in research and be able to provide services to a variety of research investigators. This position will require working in a BSL-2 environment, BSL-3 environment, select agent environment and farm environment. This position is considered essential, and as such requires weekend, holiday and off hour’s coverage as needed.
The Lab Animal Care Technician is responsible for:
Animal Care and Husbandry
Recordkeeping
BSL-3 animal husbandry and care
Miscellaneous
What We’re Looking For
Basic Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
Special Work Schedule Requirements (e.g. overtime, evenings, weekends, on call, rotating shifts, etc. Please note that the schedule of exempt employees may vary based on the needs of the department and it is not necessarily limited to a set number of hours.)
Weekend and holiday hours will be required. Occasional off-hours work required. This position will encompass one weekend day, Tues through Sat or Sun through Thurs if weekends are not handled on a rotational basis.
Pay Range
Minimum $19.80, Midpoint $23.55, Maximum $27.30
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
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