Senior Animal Technologist

Job No.: 693302

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time 

Duration: Continuing appointment

Remuneration: $100,155 - $108,106 pa HEW Level 6 (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Join our inclusive, collaborative community
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Are you an experienced Senior Animal Technologist who is committed to animal welfare, high-quality research support, and being a critical part of a high performing team? We are seeking a Senior Animal Technologist to play a pivotal role in the day-to-day operation of an animal facility unit, ensuring the highest standards of animal care, compliance, and service delivery to our research community.

Reporting to the Facility Manager, this hands-on senior technical position combines expertise, influence, and operational impact in a dynamic laboratory animal environment.

About the Role

As Senior Animal Technologist, you will:

• Champion the delivery of high-quality animal research services, ensuring best-practice animal care and husbandry
• Actively promote and inform animal welfare, ethical practice, and regulatory compliance
• Mentor team members,fostering a culture of care, accountability and continuous improvement
• Support researchers by delivering high quality animal research models and excellence in research support.  
• Contribute to operational planning, resource allocation, quality monitoring, reporting and problem solving. 
• Drive service excellence through effective engagement with the local team, wider platform and relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance SOPs, compliance frameworks and safe working environments
• Support platform innovation and best practice operations and service delivery through remaining up to date with current methodologies, equipment and technologies and identifying opportunities for improvement. 

This role offers a meaningful opportunity to operate as a critical element in the delivery of excellence in animal wellbeing outcomes while supporting impactful scientific research.

About You

You are a confident and capable senior animal technologist willing to set standards and support others to achieve a supportive, high performing team environment. You will bring:

• A Diploma of Animal Technology with relevant experience in a laboratory animal facility, or an equivalent combination of training and extensive experience
• Advanced practical experience in animal breeding and husbandry, including procedures such as blood collection, injections and euthanasia
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation and regulatory frameworks governing animal research and gene technology
• Demonstrated experience coordinating, training and supporting teams in a complex bioresources setting
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to plan, prioritise and manage operational workloads
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with researchers, students and stakeholders
• Proven ability to author and review complex technical documentation to a high standard
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with sound judgement and the confidence to lead by example

Why Join Us?

• Make a genuine impact on team culture, animal welfare and research outcomes
• Work within a professional, collaborative team environment
• Lead and develop others while progressing your own technical and leadership expertise
• Be part of a facility committed to best practice, continuous improvement and ethical research
• If you are ready to take the next step in your career and thrive in a role that values integrity, collaboration, and care, we encourage you to apply.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.

In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026. 

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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

To Apply

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Jonathan Mauclair, Operations Manager, MARP, +61 3 9902 9270

Position Description:  Senior Animal Technologist

Applications Close: Monday 18th May 2026, 11:55pm AEST