Generic Job Description
Animal Technician IV
GRADE D
Representative Duties:
- Provide operational assistance to the manager, supervisor or lead person by overseeing and coordinating administrative, program or other activities , Ensure and maintain established standards. Serve as the principal source of information regarding area(s).
- Using specialized working knowledge of one or more functional areas of animal husbandry, conduct animal husbandry, sanitation and handling duties, including moderate to high hazard areas, e.g. BL 3.
- 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.
- Provide research and technical support to investigators. Conduct or oversee procedures such as blood collection, injections and/or routine surgical procedures. Prepare reports and provide updates to investigators regarding the status of animals.
- Using protocols established by PI or manager, manage and maintain breeding colonies for research. Establish and carry out strategic breeding plans according to specific protocols or instructions.
- Maintain detailed records regarding animal colonies such as births, deaths, weaning, and breeding and other records required by institutional, local and federal regulations.
- Coordinate daily functions for a washing center. Assign staff to maximize operating efficiency and ensure production according to required schedules. Ensure and maintain established quality standards.
- May train and/or instruct staff on sanitation, animal handling, restraint and care techniques, appropriate to level.
- Perform additional related tasks as necessary.
Family: Research-Support
Job Code: 628 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: 628 Animal Technician IV Grade
D
Required Knowledge:
- Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field of learning.
- Limited acquaintance with business, accounting, or commercial procedures.
- Working knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of one or several narrow areas of University rules and procedures.
Required Skills:
- Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking questions, or from one or several given data bases; limited interpretation of data.
- Routine use of a major library catalogue or reference database.
- Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical or chronological system.
- Screens complex, technical or specialized literature for referral.
- Write 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 complex experiments from start to finish.
- Experiments include multiple procedures performed in combination and/or sequence.
Office and Administrative Skills:
- Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
- Format, store and file data to generate basic, pre-established reports.
- Schedule and coordinate appointments.
- Advises, screens and refers callers.
Experience, Education, and Formal Training:
- Two years of related work experience in the same job family and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
- Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
- Often coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
- Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
- Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters.
- Trains, instructs, or teaches others in academic, research, or other professional matters.
Supervisory Guidelines:
- Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
- Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or the work of others based on an understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities; supervisor reviews work after its completion.
- Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment
- Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
- Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
- Problems solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility
- Often provides work guidance, instruction or orientation of others.
- Often 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.
- Regular multiple or conflicting demands, deadlines, emergencies, or time pressures.
- Regular sustained concentration.
- Some physical effort or dexterity.
Certification
- AALAS Laboratory Animal Technologist Certification preferred.
