Animal Resources Associate
Summary
Title: | Animal Resources Associate |
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ID: | 305927 |
Department: | Operations |
Description
Position : Animal Resources Associate
Location : Grayson, GA
Duration : 12 Months Contract
Total Hours/week :40.00
1st shift
Start work 5:30 or 6AM (8 hour work day)
Description:
- The Animal Resources Associate works within standards and operating procedures to plan and perform various tasks with animals mainly rabbits and rats.
- Assist in the completion of documentation required under cGMP, OSHA, USDA, FDA, ISO, and corporate policies.
- This includes written records and logs. Perform feeding, carrying, and holding animals, cleaning and sanitizing of animal caging systems, water lines, and other animal handling components.
- Perform maintenance, cleaning and wash down procedures for buildings, floors, drains, and air handling equipment.
- Perform animal immunizations, bleeds, bleed outs. Effectively work in a team setting, supporting team goals and objectives.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform incoming health and Quality Assurance checks for incoming animals.
- Administer antibiotics, analgesics and anesthetics as required by protocol or by consulting Veterinarian.
- Assist in the performance of tasks necessary to complete daily production work in the animal facilities.
- This includes the maintenance of housing, cage lining, daily feed/water supply to animals, medications if needed, immunization and bleeding schedules and documenting changes to the published schedules.
- Collection of injections, test bleed information and other related information and materials required for daily production activities.
- Maintains pasture and fence surroundings.
- Maintain receipt and disposition records for all DEA controlled substances.
- Assist in maintaining Animal Resource records for care and use of all animals.
- Assist in bringing new techniques and procedures to the department to reduce costs and improve quality of care.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
- Must be able to endure prolonged standing and walking.
- Must have good manual dexterity in hands.
- Must be non allergic to any animal species used in manufacturing or research applications.
Education and Experience:
- High School diploma or GED.
- Valid Georgia driver’s license.
- AALAS certification
- Two years’ experience as an Animal Handler or three years’ experience working with laboratory and farm animals in a production or research facility.
- Must have mastered all tasks outlined above as Job Functions and Responsibilities.
- Must have completed training of all Departmental DI's, SOP's and policies related to tasks mastered.
- Must be able to read, write, analyze and evaluate charts, follow simple diagrams, and perform basic math.
- Perform various immunizations protocols for all animals, rabbits, goats, sheep, mice rats and other animals as required.
- Types of immunizations include IP, IM, IV, SC, IA and IC.
- Perform blood collection procedures for rabbits, sheep and goats, and other animals as required, while maintaining death rates from this procedure below 10%
- Operate and maintain mediators, tractor and accessory equipment, pathological incinerator.
- Perform all tasks necessary to maintain clean environmental animal cages, i.e. daily cleaning of building floors, animal cages, feeders and other related equipment.
- Assist and perform tasks necessary to maintain animal health.
- These tasks include feeding of all animals and applying general topical medication required to maintain animal health.
- Assists in daily production tasks including blood collection and immunization of rabbits, rats and other animals as required.