Lead Technician

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 pursues and improves methods of animal husbandry and resource utilization.

He/she ensures the highest quality of laboratory animal care and research support, and has good communication skills with co-workers, management team, PI's, 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.

Lead Animal Care Technicians are responsible for ensuring that communication and 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. Lead Animal Care Technicians will carry the LAR phone with them during work hours and respond to all inquiries from management, staff, business office, veterinarian technicians, and vendor/animal deliveries.

Lead Animal Care Technicians will assist management with dynamic scheduling if someone calls out sick (single days).Lead Animal Care Technicians will be responsible for fixing Avidity issues during work hours.

Lead Animal Care Technicians will be on a rotational schedule for Avidity water alarms.

Lead Animal Care Technicians will bring facility issues and concerns to LAR management.

Lead Animal Care Technicians will communicate with LAR management for work orders and vendor repair calls.

Responsibilities

The Lead Animal Technician pursues and improves methods of animal husbandry and resource utilization. He/she ensures the highest quality of laboratory animal care and research support, and has good communication skills with co-workers, management team, PI's, research staff, students, facility maintenance crews and other support services.

The Lead Animal Care Technician is responsible for ensuring that communication and 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 with dynamic scheduling 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

* 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 a diverse team for 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, and regulatory compliance.

-Ability to handle assignments and changing priorities as circumstances may dictate.

-Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate well person to person as well as per…