Lead Lab Animal Technician

Job description

Market Range: 06 Hiring Salary: $19.60/Hourly: JOB SUMMARY/ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: The Lead Lab Animal Technician provides key important and required job functions that supports a large complex, integrated, and centralized laboratory animal resource program on the UT Health Science Center campus. This position serves as the lead technician in the work unit and performs routine and specialized duties in the handling, care, feeding, breeding colony management, disease surveillance, experimental DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Handles, cares for, feeds, maintains records for, and transports animals including those in biohazard or barrier containment. - Demonstrates, teaches, performs, and leads other technicians in appropriate animal husbandry and care procedures such as microisolator techniques, cage change procedures, health checks, room checks, and quality control checks of food, water, and equipment. - Receives newly arrived animals, checks order information and records for accuracy. Assign animals to appropriate housing location, appropriate caging and identified correctly. - Verifies and records housing information on appropriate forms, updates census information electronically,...