Associate Animal Care Tech $1,000 Sign On Bonus
Job Summary:
Join a team of dedicated Laboratory Animal Professionals in supporting cutting edge medical research at one of the nation’s premier medical institutions. Successful applicants will learn and apply technical animal husbandry skills to care for a diverse range of animals, with regular guidance and mentoring. Operates within a structured animal care and use program with established procedures and in compliance with existing local, state and federal regulations.
Schedule Requirements:
- Work Shift – 8 hours/day, 5 days/week, weekends and holidays required
Position Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) and <1 year relevant experience
License Required 1:
No Licensure or Certification Required.
Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:
- Medium Work category requiring exertion up to 50lbs of force occasionally and/or up to 20 of force frequently and/or up to 10 of force continually to move objects.
Key Elements/ Responsibilities:
- Completes daily assessment of animal health, welfare, and housing conditions.
- Provides routine care of research animals.
- Participates in the cleaning and maintenance of animal quarters.
- Maintains adequate levels of consumable supplies in animal quarters.
- Learns how to monitor environmental parameters in animal housing rooms, document findings and report deviations from defined acceptable ranges.
- Accurately documents completed daily activities in accordance with established procedures.
- Learns how to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot animal housing and water delivery systems.
- Develops ability to recognize and report potential clinical abnormalities and/or irregularities in laboratory animals.
- Learns and adheres to the regulatory requirements for the care and use of laboratory animals.
- Learns and complies with established departmental and institutional operational procedures for the care of laboratory animals.
- Learns and applies established administrative, safety and compliance procedures when working with laboratory animals.
Movement
- Occasional: Sitting: Remaining in seated position
- Occasional: Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with help of coworkers or assistive device
- Occasional: Carrying over 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
- Occasional: Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
- Frequent: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
- Frequent: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.
- Frequent: Crawling:Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
- Frequent: Kneeling:Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees.
- Frequent: Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
- Frequent: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
- Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
- Continuous: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
- Continuous: Walking: Moving about on foot.
- Continuous: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
- Continuous: Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles
- Continuous: Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self, patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and small spaces
- Continuous: Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands.
- Continuous: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
- Continuous: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.
Sensory
- Occasional: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.
- Occasional: Noise: May include exposure to occupational noise levels which equal or exceed an 8-hr time-weighted average of 85 decibels, requiring enrollment in VUMC's Hearing Conservation Program which includes training, use of hearing protection, and periodic audiometry.
- Frequent: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.
- Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
- Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
- Continuous: Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.
Environmental Conditions
- Occasional: Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other contagious illnesses.
- Occasional: Radiation: May be exposed to occupational radiation, requiring enrollment in VUMC's Radiation Safety Program which includes training, use of personal protective equipment with lead shielding, and personal dose monitoring.
- Occasional: Climate: Ability to withstand exposure to atmospheric extremes including heat, cold, humidity, and barometric pressure changes.
- Frequent: Chemicals and Gasses: Medications, cleaning chemicals, oxygen, other medical gases used in work area.