Animal Care Supervisor - Comparative Medicine

The Animal Care Supervisor - Comparative Medicine is responsible for supervising daily laboratory services and operations, including ensuring equipment and instrumentation is maintained, creating and updating procedural manuals, training and supervising staff, contributing to diagnostic services and research-specific laboratory testing, and assisting with developing and reconciling budgets.

Requirements

• Supervise daily laboratory services and operations
• Schedule equipment and instrumentation preventive maintenance, calibration, repairs
• Develop/revise procedural manuals
• Train staff
• Ensure compliance with proper laboratory practices and procedures
• Contribute to diagnostic services and research-specific laboratory testing
• Coordinate with investigators and research staff
• Perform quantitative and qualitative chemical, hematological, microbiological, and microscopic analysis on various animal specimens
• Refine and adapt testing methodologies as necessary
• Prepare specimens for offsite testing
• Coordinate laboratory diagnostics phase of sentinel animal program
• Assist with developing, monitoring, and reconciling operational budgets
• Maintain awareness of animal science laboratory industry trends and regulatory requirements
• Update SOPs, guidelines, manuals, policies, and procedures
• Conduct training
• Enforce compliance
• Participate in compliance reviews
• Take correction action as required
• Hire, train, coach, supervise, and evaluate employees
• Prepare schedules
• Communicate and enforce standards
• Promote professional development
• Adhere to Collective Bargaining Agreement
• Participate in grievance and arbitration hearings
• Monitor laboratory environmental sustainability programs

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Robust retirement plans
• Substantial paid time off
• Generous 75% tuition discount