Part-time Animal Caretaker - Comparative Medicine

The Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Comparative Medicine, is seeking a part-time animal caretaker to perform various tasks related to animal care and facility maintenance.

Requirements

• Sanitize animal facility caging and equipment
• Maintain maintenance logs and daily temperature logs
• Set up, operate and service cage washing machines and sterilizing equipment
• Load, unload and store food, bedding and other facility equipment
• Check cages and other equipment for needed repair
• Clean and repair equipment for daily service
• Assemble caging supplies with properly sterilized feed, bedding and water
• Follow standardized procedures
• Maintain various records of supplies used
• Comply with animal facility and Penn State Hershey medical center policies
• Maintain cage wash rooms, animal rooms and facility hallways in a clean state
• Operate battery powered cart and/or University motor vehicle
• Attend meeting and training sessions on animal care and use of animals in biomedical research
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein
• Work with a variety of animals, including handling, restraint, feeding, watering and general husbandry
• Change cages or pens following aseptic and conventional technician
• Record critical facility data on a daily basis
• Use various technical animal care and research equipment