Veranex
Animal Care Technician 2Posted
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Job Description
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Veranex is the only truly comprehensive, global, tech-enabled service provider dedicated to the medical technology industry. Offering expert guidance from concept-through-commercialization, including product design and engineering, preclinical and clinical development, data management, market access, regulatory affairs and quality assurance, Veranex enables accelerated speed to market, controlled development costs, development risk mitigation, and accelerated market viability assessment. At every stage, Veranex clients realize efficiencies in cost and time, while our comprehensive solutions unify the entire development process. Veranex partners with the world's most influential life science and medical device companies to research, design, develop and commercialize new healthcare technologies and treatments to advance patient care.
About This Role:
Provide daily care, husbandry, and support to the laboratory animals at Veranex Preclinical Services site, Atlanta. This position will interact on a regular basis with Veranex Preclinical Services (PCS) Atlanta's other technical positions, research scientists, and faculty to manage the in-life in vivo portions of the research and customer service.
What You Will Do:
* Reviews medical records and research data for accurate documentation and data collection.
* Provide daily care to laboratory animals including feeding, watering, and cage cleaning.
* Maintain accurate daily records of animal health as well as all SOP and regulatory required documents.
* Sanitize animal rooms, cages, and other equipment to maintain a healthy environment for animals.
* Operate sanitizing equipment, environmental housing equipment and research related equipment.
* Interpret medical orders, accurately calculate pharmacologic doses and administer medication.
* Post-operative exams, evaluations, and data collection.
* Assist with the transport and receipt of animals.
* Review and evaluate medical records, research data for accuracy.
* Mentor new Animal Care Tech 1 staff.
* Perform physical examinations of animals
* Perform other related duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Required Skills:
* Minimum of 2 years of relevant lab or veterinary experience plus high school diploma, GED, or Vocational School diploma
* Good understanding of safety protocols for clinical environments and animal care
* Good knowledge of sanitation and environmental guidelines, regulations, and study needs
* Ability to safely handle and properly restrain laboratory animals
* Ability to communicate animal needs to staff effectively
* Strong computer skills
* Ability to interpret medical orders, calculate and administer medications
* Ability to understand medical orders
* Routinely lift more than 50lbs
Preferred:
* Associate's or Bachelor's degree
* Minimum 1 year of lab experience or veterinary experience
Veranex is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or gender expression), sexual orientation, parental or marital status, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, national, social, or ethnic origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Other details
* Job Family Animal Care
* Job Function Animal Care
* Pay Type Hourly
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