Supervisor of Animal Resources- Az- Animal Care
4 weeks ago
**Summary**
The Supervisor of Animal Resources is responsible for the supervision of the care and maintenance of the small Animal Research Facilities. Some direction in job responsibilities may also be provided by the consulting veterinarian. This position reports to the Associate Director, Research Operations. This individual will be required to work weekends and holidays on a rotation basis.
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
- Supervisor of the Animal Resources Technicians and facility on a daily basis.
- Maintaining animal resources in accordance with current federal, state, and local regulations pertaining to laboratory animals.
- Updating knowledge on current federal, state, and local regulations and where to obtain additional or current regulatory information.
- Observing or detecting alterations in animal room environment including temperature, air exchange and light cycles.
- Recognizing common signs of clinical illness in laboratory animals.
- Assist Animal Resources Technicians and Senior Animal Resources Technicians in daily husbandry care of laboratory animals in a safe and sanitary manner using equipment under established procedures.
- Ordering animals, animal food, bedding, and supplies as back up for Senior Animal Resources Technician.
- Gathering monthly census information for Associate Director.
- Oversee cage card activation and deactivation, in InfoEd management software
- Obtaining blood sampling & other sampling for bi-annual sentinel testing, or for investigators as needed
- Assisting with various methods of animal identification and maintenance of accurate records.
- Observing and reporting irregularities in laboratory animals such as variation in dietary habits, abnormal stool or urine specimens, unusual behaviors, and deaths.
- Work in cage wash area
- Provide tour of facilities to new faculty, staff and students
- Providing general technical assistance for investigators, technicians, students as needed.
- Providing routine treatments as instructed including procedures such as ear mite medication and clipping of overgrown teeth.
- Maintaining personal hygiene and following various sanitation procedures when moving between various animal rooms.
- Ex-Officio member of Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) on respective campus
- Performing other duties as assigned.
**Supervisory Responsibilities**
Supervise full time Animal Care Technicians & Senior Animal Care Technicians.
**Qualifications**
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Must be able to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner and have regular, predictable, in-person attendance. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
**Education and/or Experience**
Bachelor’s degree required. 5-7 years’ experience in professional animal care setting with small animal handling experience with ALAT (Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician) & LAT (Laboratory Animal Technician) certification from the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) required. LATG (Laboratory Animal Technologist) certification a plus. One year of experience leading or mentoring a team. Good written and oral communications required.
**Computer Skills**
Computer proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
**Language Skills**
Basic skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
**Reasoning Ability**
**Mathematical Ability**
Basic skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to interpret bar graphs.
**Physical Demands**
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision correctable to 20/20 in one eye, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to work with animals.
**Work Environment**
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an
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