Casual Animal Care Technician

1 month ago


Kingston, Canada Queen's University Full time

About Queen's University

Queen’s University is the Canadian research intensive university with a transformative student learning experience. Here the employment experience is as diverse as it is interesting. We have opportunities in multiple areas of globally recognized research, faculty administration, engineering & construction, athletics & recreation, power generation, corporate shared services, and many more.
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Job Summary

**Hourly Rate**: $18.77/hour + 4% vacation pay = $19.52/hour
**Job Description**:
**Opportunity Details**:

- Scheduled shifts. Rotating every other weekend. Not call in, so you can plan other things in your life.

**Job Duties**:

- Provide daily care and feeding for the laboratory animals.
- Prepare and dispense the correct diet for specific species according to the animal’s biological needs, using scales, volumetric devices and including sterilization procedure.
- Recognize deviations from normal health and behaviour, reporting any abnormalities to Veterinary Services.
- Accurately identify, handle, and restrain animals within the facility.
- Must be aware of the basic principles of sterility, quarantining, conditioning, and epidemiological control.
- Handling and providing for the needs of special husbandry cases:

- Biohazards
- Sterile environment
- Lifting heavy animals and equipment e.g. bags of food, paper, cleaning fluids, caging.
- Providing animal treatments under veterinary guidance.
- These skills are applied to the husbandry of common laboratory animals.

**Requirements**:

- The incumbent must have a patient, humane, and caring attitude towards all animals, combined with the strength and knowledge to handle them successfully.
- The incumbent must be aware of the basic principles of sterility, quarantining, conditioning and epidemiological control
- Commitment to be at work on-time for each shift
- Strong communications skills are required (speak, read, and write in English).
- Ability to work independently and in a group as a member of the Animal Care Services team.
- Physically capable of performing the duties listed above.
- Knowledge of the Canadian Council of Animal Care (CCAC), the Canadian Association for Laboratory Science (CALAS), the Animals for Research Act and the University Animal Care Committee is an asset.

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