Generic Job Description
Animal Technician III
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Observe and evaluate animals for signs of illness and stress and deviations in animal conditions. Feed, house and handle animals in accordance with institutional, local and Federal regulations.
- Perform animal care with veterinary oversight which may include specialized drug administration, sample collection, and pre and post procedural care. Maintain records of treatments.
- Provide husbandry and specialized services for animals in animal colonies. Maintain, sanitize and decontaminate animal rooms and facilities within low to moderate hazardous areas, e.g. BL2.
- Perform rodent euthanasia services according to established standards and practices and/or assist in non-rodent species euthanasia.
- Maintain required records according to institutional, local and federal regulatory standards.
- Serve as a source of information to investigators and support staff on animal handling, restraint, and pre- and post- procedural care or sanitation services.
- May train and/or instruct staff on sanitation, animal handling, restraint and care techniques appropriate to level.
- Perform periodic decontamination, maintenance and rotation of equipment in facility washing centers. Operate animal care processing equipment on either clean or dirty side and/or specific washing center; diagnose mechanical, technical and/or process problems.
- Maintain inventory of supplies.
- May act as a driver; operating vehicle in order to pick up and deliver animals and materials to assignment locations, applying proper animal handling and care protocols.
- Perform additional related tasks as necessary.
Family: Research Support
Job Code: 627 Date: 10/08
The job duties listed
above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and
the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary
from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale
University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 627 Animal Technician III Grade C
Required Knowledge:
- Specialized college level course work; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial acquaintance with broader field of knowledge.
- Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and procedures.
Required Skills:
- Extracts and compiles a narrow range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking set questions, or from one or several given data bases; coding based on prescribed simple standards.
- Routine use of a major library catalogue or reference database.
- Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical or chronological system.
- Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, and policy statements.
- Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
- Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers; responsible for basic troubleshooting and repair or manipulation of data using published software
- Performs one or several moderately complex laboratory or scientific procedures that are not reversible and are not expensive to duplicate; records results as necessary.
Office and Administrative Skills:
- Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
- Enters and retrieves data from given sources on a personal computer.
- Screens and refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual.
Experience, Education and Formal Training:
- Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
- Limited variety of job tasks requiring coordinating steps/procedures.
- Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
- Some involvement outside immediate unit.
- Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
- Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.
Supervisory Guidelines:
- Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
- Supervisor always plans, assigns, and schedules work and defines objectives clearly.
- Instruction provided only in new situations, methods and procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
- Established procedures/policies govern most work situations.
- Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
- Problems solved by using established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
- Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies.
- Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error:
- Work has some effect both outside the work unit and outside the University.
- Errors are difficult to recognize and correct and can cause considerable harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University or to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions:
- Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
- Occasional conflicting demands, time, pressures, deadlines or emergencies.
- Regular sustained concentration.
- Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
Certification:
- AALAS Laboratory Animal Technologist Certification preferred.
