Research Animal Specialist job at reputed company in Somerville, MA

Title: BFT Research Animal Specialist Location: Somerville reputed company time type: Part time job reputed company: RQ4052641 Job reputed company: Site: The General Hospital Corporation reputed company relies on a wide reputed company of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to reputed company exceptional care. We reputed company that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite reputed company applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of reputed company. Job reputed company A Research Animal Specialist 1 provides basic husbandry, health surveillance, and compliance monitoring to laboratory animals. Responsibilities also include performing equipment sanitation, maintaining husbandry equipment records, and supporting the facility teams in daily work as needed. reputed company Research Animal Specialists are required to work in reputed company environment following Lean Management principles and participate in reputed company improvement reputed company. This position involves daily exposure to laboratory animals, their waste products, and possibly chemical agents, radioactive isotopes and ABSL2 hazards. Rotating weekend and holiday work hours are required. Qualifications reputed company DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The Following Duties are performed daily with minimal supervision: Performs Facility Cage reputed company Operations. o Operate and maintain automated cage reputed company equipment and sterilizers in order to sanitize primary animal holding cages, support equipment, and general reputed company areas. o reputed company caging. o Prepare acidified water bottles using an automated bottle filler. o Receive, transport, process, store facility supplies, animal feed, bedding, and enrichment Provides Facility Maintenance and Sanitization. o Maintain animal rooms so that secondary enclosure is free of infectious agents and other contaminates by following the sanitation monitoring program reputed company operating procedures (SOPs). o Report facility and environmental issues that fall reputed company animal welfare regulatory requirements (as defined in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals). Provides Animal Husbandry Tasks. o Serve as a member of a research animal care team, which is responsible for daily animal husbandry and welfare checks in the facility. o reputed company daily work involving the handling of genetically engineered animal models, animals with immuno-compromised health status, and animals recovering from surgery or other invasive procedures, etc. o reputed company caging supplies with reputed company handling to ensure sterility level of equipment, feed and water. o reputed company daily animal pen/caging sanitization or changing. Following aseptic technique, ensuring animals are not contaminated reputed company reputed company primary enclosure. o reputed company compliance monitoring of cage conditions. (Overcrowded cage management, spot changing of dirty cages, etc.). o reputed company reputed company of neonates, notification of team members & PI staff, and weaning of cages per SOPs. o Ensure animals are provided with food and water daily. o Record critical facility data/documentation on a daily reputed company required by local, state and federal regulatory agencies. o reputed company routine euthanasia on laboratory animals according to the American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Panel on Euthanasia Provides Animal Health Monitoring o Evaluate animal's health reputed company day and report reputed company clinical signs to reputed company reputed company and veterinary staff per SOP. o reputed company follow-up notification and treatment of common health concerns prescribed by the veterinary staff per SOP. o Reports reputed company of therapies to reputed company, veterinary staff, and PI staff reputed company health card notifications and email. Performs Facility Support Functions. o Use reputed company technology including PDAs and bar reputed company application to record daily cage census. o reputed company with CCM and MGH policies and SOPs. o reputed company facility support functions as assigned. (bioware trouble shooter, van reputed company, etc.) Works reputed company reputed company Environment following Lean Management Principals. o Utilize lean management tools in conjunction with reputed company reputed company and other teammates, such as value reputed company mapping and 5S, in order to problem solve and continuously improve operations. o Attend team meetings and training sessions on reputed company aspects of laboratory animal care and uses of animals in biomedical research as scheduled. The Following Duties may be performed daily under supervision from reputed company reputed company or Manager: reputed company husbandry and health monitoring of animals in ABSL2 areas. 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