Animal Lab Tech II
7 days ago
Come join our team
The Animal Laboratory Technician II (ALTII) is an advanced-level position for technicians with experience in the husbandry of laboratory animals. Job responsibilities include knowledge and application of relevant laboratory animal medicine standards, rules, and regulations. The ALT II performs husbandry tasks for all species housed in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) facilities and veterinary related procedures as trained by the Clinical Staff. Husbandry tasks include daily health case observations of animals and reporting of cases directly to the Clinical Staff, sanitization of primary enclosures, food and water checks, general animal room maintenance, and bar coding for animal census. The ALTII will also assist the ALTIII and/or the Supervisor with training of new Technicians, managing vendor deliveries of animals/equipment/supplies, and irradiation confirmation of all incoming diets. As an advanced-level position, the ALTII must be proficient with the husbandry of all animals housed in CM and possess knowledge of CM standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies, and procedures.
What are the Primary Duties and Responsibilities?
Perform routine and special feeding, watering, handling (safely transferring animals from one enclosure to another) and changes cages or primary enclosure for all species housed in the vivarium including USDA covered species.Process service requests submitted by research staff to provide special diets and medicated water to animals in the vivarium.Assist clinical and research staff with animal handling and provides treatments (including basic, intermediate and advanced) for rodents, this may include procedures such as SQ, IP injections and topical applications.Perform veterinary related tasks post training by Clinical Staff and maintains clinical records as required; rodent breeding tasks may be performed as needed.Provide species-specific environmental enrichment to animals according to CM standards. In addition, supports environmental enrichment initiatives, conducts assessments for new items and provides feedback for all species.Receive animals from vendors, assists the Animal Care Coordinator with animal delivery reports and identification of obvious health abnormalities and deviations from the ordered type, quantity or sex.Perform barcoding scanning of animal cage cards for billing and census purposes, participate in census reconciliation, and issue census reports as needed.Work with ALTIII to audit inventory of feed and bedding, supplies and equipment.Store and dispense special diets ordered by Research Staff; this includes appropriate labeling, assigning secondary containers, and following proper storage conditions.Assist with decontamination of Vivarium spaces as needed (after training and proficiency assessment).Support ALTIII and Supervisors with on-the-floor vivarium training for laboratory staff including the use of Animal Transfer Stations (ATS)/Biological Safety Cabinets (BSC), proper micro-isolator technique, facility workflow, and large animal species, among other techniques. Additionally, assist the ALTIII and Supervisors with training of new CM employees hired in the classification of ALTI and ALTII.Responsible for independently identifying additional tasks (other than those assigned) which need to be performed.
Qualifications
Education, License/Certification & Experience Requirements:
High School Diploma/GED required. Bachelor's degree in relevant college degree or coursework in laboratory animal sciences preferred.Three (3) years of laboratory animal science experience required.California Driver's License requiredAALAS Assistant Laboratory Animal Tech (ALAD) certification required within one (1) year of hire. AALAS Laboratory Animal Tech (LAT) certification preferred upon hire.
About Us
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
About the Team
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Req ID : 3132
Working Title : Animal Lab Tech II (Zebrafish) - Guerin Children's - Traver Lab
Department : Childrens Health Institute
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Academic / Research
Job Specialty : Animal Care
Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $ $32.86
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