Chief Animal Science Technician

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Main Duties and Duties 

Every day Animal Husbandry: 

• Organizes, distributes and verifies the work of the staff members 

• Oversees day-to-day operations and ensures every day staff duties are scheduled to satisfy the wants of the power operations. Coordinates with different groups when help is required to finish the duties. 

• Ensures staff members have an equitable workload. 

• Ensures staff members are skilled and observe authorised procedures for all every day animal husbandry duties. 

• Ensures staff members have the required supplies to perform every day duties. 

• Ensures every day exercise logs, cage labels, and different logs can be found. 

• Ensures animal sickness and accidents are reported to veterinary care workers appropriately. 

• Performs animal euthanasia and disposal following authorised procedures. 

• Maintains stock of consumables and re-orders provides utilizing the MMP based mostly on a brand new pull system. 

  

Caging Gear Sanitation: 

• Ensures staff duties are scheduled to satisfy the wants of the power operations. 

• Ensures staff members are skilled and observe authorised procedures for tools sanitation. 

• Ensures staff members have the required supplies. 

• Ensures Organic indicator assessments are carried out and recorded. 

• Ensures cage wash machine is cleaned weekly and autoclave is maintained. 

  

Facility Cleansing/Weekly Duties: 

• Ensures staff weekly duties are scheduled to satisfy the wants of the power operations. 

• Ensures staff members are altering meals bins frequently. 

• Ensures ventilated and standard cage racks are sanitized on a decided schedule. 

  

Automated Watering System: 

• Ensures automated watering system every day, weekly and month-to-month duties are scheduled. 

• Notify accountable personnel of any issues or alarms. 

  

Boarding/ Darwin Animal Use Administration Software program: 

• Processes animal order requests and prints Darwin cage playing cards for animal receiving, imports and transfers. 

• Prompts and deactivates Darwin playing cards every day. 

• Performs Darwin reconciliation scan weekly. 

• Maintains an animal census report to regulate the distribution of labor all through the staff regularly. 

• Investigates and validates discrepancies once they happen.  Acts to reconcile these transactions and relays this info to the Workplace Billing workers member earlier than billing is accomplished. 

• Receives requests from analysis workers members for added cage playing cards or different points associated to census and breeding of animals. 

  

Security: 

• Ensures eye wash stations are checked weekly. 

• Ensures emergency numbers are updated and visual to all workers and analysis workers. 

• Ensures staff members know the place accident experiences are and full them. 

• Ensures compliance with security laws in the usage of tools. 

• Ensures correct storage, dealing with and disposal of hazardous supplies. 

  

Repairs and Gear Upkeep: 

• Ensures all animal husbandry tools is in working order. 

• Makes small repairs the place doable.  

• Following any restore work, ensures tools is in working situation. 

• Makes calls and arranges service and preventative upkeep 

• Participates and gives perception and suggestions within the design of specialised tools fabrication request resembling primate enclosures and different animal facility associated tools. 

  

Useful resource individual: 

• Solutions questions of analysis workers and staff members by way of private data or by placing them involved with the related folks. 

• Participates within the improvement and troubleshooting of recent tasks to higher incorporate new procedures into facility operations. 

• Ensures analysis workers know contact veterinary care workers, laboratory workers and workplace workers if not on website, or act as a liaison the place doable. 

• Accessible on-call on a rotating schedule to deal with emergencies that might impression animal welfare and the standard of analysis 

• Develops procedures and makes suggestions to enhance staff and facility operation effectivity. 

• Researches tools and provides at decreased costs for finances value financial savings. 

• Retains a listing of all tools and provides utilized by the power and purchases all animal care provides. 

  

Workforce Constructing: 

• Coordinates cross-training of staff members. 

• Coordinates every day staff conferences. 

• Builds an efficient staff utilizing members’ respective strengths. 

• Acknowledges and helps resolve conflicts earlier than they escalate. 

• Maintains robust staff morale and promotes unity throughout the staff and between groups. 

Should be out there on weekend on rotation.

Data of French and English: McGill College is an English-language college the place each day duties could require English communication each verbally and in writing. The extent of English required for this place has been assessed at a degree 3 on a scale of 0-4. 

Minimal Schooling and Expertise:

DEC III – Animal Well being Know-how 3 Years Associated Expertise / DEC III – Farm Administration Know-how

Hourly Wage:

(MUNACA Degree G) $31.19 – $38.65

Hours per Week:

35 (Full time)

Supervisor:

Animal Care Supervisor

Place Finish Date (If relevant):

2024-05-31

Deadline to Apply:

2023-11-27

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