Generic Job Description                

Animal Technician II

Grade B

Representative Duties:

• Feeds, restrains and handles animals.
• Cleans animal cages and equipment.
• Observes and evaluates animals for signs of illness or stress. Reports deviations in animal conditions.
• Records and logs animal census by species and investigator. Maintains and updates records.
• Maintains and sanitizes animal rooms and facilities. Maintains inventory of supplies.
• May perform care under veterinary supervision, including drug administration, blood collection, and pre and post-operative care. Maintains records of treatments.
• May receive and house new animals.
• Perform additional functions incidental to animal technology activities.
  
  Family: Research-Support
  Job Code: 626 Date: 2/89

  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.
  

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Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 626 Animal Technician Grade B

Required Knowledge:

• General knowledge, high school level; detailed but narrow work-related knowledge in one or several work-related areas. General acquaintance with broader fields of knowledge.
• Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.

Required Skills:

• Copies data from standard or easily understandable formats.
• Understands non-routine notes, written instructions, general policy statements.
• Writes short, informal notes, fills out simple forms.
• Occasional use of simple machines that require little training to operate.
• Performs one or several simple laboratory or scientific procedures that require some training, but that can be reversed or duplicated inexpensively, records results as necessary.

Office and Administrative Skills:

• Enters and retrieves data from given sources on a personal computer.
• Refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual.

Experience, Education and Formal Training:

• One year of related work experience and a high school level education, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization:

• Job tasks composed of routine steps/procedures.
• Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.

Interpersonal Relations:

• Little or no involvement outside immediate work unit.
• Offers or obtains basic information or provides assistance on general matters.
• Understands and conveys more complex messages and instructions and takes action accordingly.

Supervisory Guidelines:

• Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
• Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign, and schedule work jointly.
• 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 many work situations.
• Little opportunity to exercise independent judgment or initiative.
• Problems solved by using established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility:

• Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies.

Impact and Consequence of Error:

• Work affects only immediate work unit.
• Errors are not difficult to recognize and correct and can cause 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 pressure, deadlines or emergencies.
• Some sustained concentration.
• Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.

Certification:

• AALAS Laboratory Animal Technologist Certification Preferred.
  

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Example 1Animal Technician II (626)
Salary: B

General Purpose:
Maintain mouse colonies and assist with the animal related experiments in the lab.

Essential Duties of the position:
1. Feed, restrain and handle animals.
2. Clean animal cages and equipment.
3. Observe and evaluate animals for signs of illness or stress. Report deviations in animal conditions.
4. Record and log animal census by species and investigator. Maintain and update records.
5. Maintain and sanitize animal rooms and facilities. Maintain inventory of supplies.
6. May perform care under veterinary supervision, including drug administration, blood collection, and pre and post-operative care. Maintain records of treatments.
7. May receive and house new animals.
8. Perform additional functions incidental to animal technology activities.
9. Must be willing to learn to take care of and screen transgenic mice by PCR. Help with the surgery of grafted mice and take care of them.
10. Assist in making peptide specific monoclonal antibodies by injecting the antigen of pulsed DC into mice, sacrifice mice, remove spleen.

Education and training:
1. One year of related work experience and a high school level education; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
2. Preferred: at least two years of experience working with animals; courses in Animal Sciences; courses in Chemistry and Biology.

Skills and abilities:
1. PC Computer knowledge

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Example 2Animal Technician II (626)
Salary: B

General Purpose:
Provide daily care to laboratory animals that are being used in biomedical research at the School of Medicine.Essential Duties:
1. Feed, restrain and handle animals.
2. Clean animal cages and equipment.
3. Maintain and sanitize animal rooms and facilities.
4. Observe and evaluate animals for signs of illness or stress.
5. Report deviations in animal conditions.
6. Maintain inventory of supplies.
7. May prepare special foods.
8. May maintain records and files.
9. May assist in preparing animals for experimentation.
10. Perform additional functions incidental to animal technology activities.

Education and training:
1. One year of related work experience and a high school level education; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
2. Eligibility and willingness to complete examination by AALAS as a Lab Animal Technician.
3. Preferred: College level courses; one year of experience working with animals. Skills and abilities:
1. Leadership skills.
2. Ability to show attention to detail.
3. Organizational, time management, and problem solving skills.
4. Oral and written communication skills.
5. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. of weight.
6. Manual dexterity.
7. Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a health screening.
8. Preferred: Sensitivity and appreciation of animals.

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