Animal Care Technician

**Job Title: Research Vivarium Husbandry **

**Location: Stilwell, KS, USA, 66085

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Duration: 5 month Contract ( Without Benefits)

**Pay rate : $19/hr **

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Clean and sanitize animal cages and related environmental items.
• Perform daily routine maintenance checks on the automated cage wash machines.
• Prepares appropriate housing for receipt of new animals; may assist with receiving animals.
• Report the need for equipment repair (cages, racks, cagewash machines, etc.) to the

appropriate personnel.

• Sanitize floors, walls and other surfaces in the automatic cage wash area and in other

areas of the lab.

• Maintain a clean cage wash area.
• Maintain storage area in an organized fashion.
• Complete animal care technical duties such as changing liners and sanitizing animal

room walls and floors.

• Receive, store, and distribute animal husbandry supplies.
• Perform limited troubleshooting and calibration of instruments as appropriate for

assigned area.

• Prepare environmental enrichment items (edible and durable).
• Operate basic lab equipment and perform routine maintenance as needed.

Prepare study and colony supplies as needed.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear,

and lift.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job regularly requires close vision and the ability

to adjust focus.

• Must be able to regularly lift and manipulate up to 50 pounds on a repetitive basis each

day.

• Must be able to regularly manipulate objects on shelves from one and one-half to six

and one-half feet above the floor on a repetitive basis each day.

• Must be able to use a broom and mop to sanitize floors on a repetitive basis each day.
• Must be able to regularly push wheeled carts weighing up to 800 pounds on a

continuous basis each day.

• Duties require regular standing for an average of eight hours a day.
• Must be able to regularly read, understand, and follow written procedures.
• Must be able to occasionally work in spaces as narrow as 2 feet in width.

**Education: **

• High School diploma or General Education Degree (G.E.D) preferred.