Job Summary:

Duties include, but are not limited to: Will feed and water lab animals, clean cages, equipment, and rooms. Must be able to maintain existing breeding colonies, maintaining accurate records for inbreeding and outbreeding of rodent species. Will provide care of laboratory animals in a safe, humane and sanitary manner using equipment and established procedures. Must be able to handle, restrain, and determine the sex of all common laboratory animals. Will supply technical services to investigators including dispensing of special diets and medicated drinking water, providing special housing requirements or assisting with specific restraint and handling procedures. Must be able to perform general animal health techniques such as: routine veterinary treatments, pre- and post-operative care and performing euthanasia according to established principles. Knowledge of anatomical and physiologic variations among common laboratory animals and disease transmission and control, including isolation and quarantine procedures required. Must be able to recognize common signs of clinical illness and/or irregularities in laboratory animals. Knowledge of all phases of animal husbandry required. Must be knowledgeable of federal, state and local regulations & guidelines pertaining to laboratory animals and be able to recognize and report areas of noncompliance. Will need to be knowledgeable about facility security procedures and capable of monitoring them. Must be able to perform heavy lifting and transporting of heavy items. Must possess valid driver's license.             

Minimum Qualifications:

NYS Department of Civil Service Eligible List or eligible for transfer

Or

Open competitive (Non-competitive, NY HELPS) Qualifications:

1. One year of full-time service as a laboratory animal caretaker in a research facility including but not limited to hospitals, universities, institutions, or laboratories;

Or, 2. Two years of full-time experience in the handling and care of live vertebrate animals in other than a residential setting.

Preferred Qualifications:

Work Days:

Schedule is based on 40 hours a week.  Monday thru Friday 7:00am - 3:30pm plus rotating weekends and holidays

Message to Applicants:

Position Status: Permanent

Salary: $39,215

Recruitment Office: Human Resources

Executive Order:

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.