Animal Technician I Grade A

Clerical and Technical generic job description

Representative duties:

• Operate machinery to clean and process dirty cages
• Fill and sanitize clean cages utilizing autoclave
• Fill water bottles
• Sanitize floors and walls using appropriate equipment
• Complete various records and forms for quality control purposes
• Launder Personal Protective Clothing
• Provide clean supplies and equipment and stock supplies for research animal facilities
• May stock inventory of supplies
• May supply special foods and water
• May provide assistance in performing additional tasks incidental to animal care activities
• Perform additional related tasks as necessary

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.

Required knowledge:

• General knowledge, high school level
• Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures

Required skills:

• Copies data from standard or easily understandable formats
• Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical, or chronological system
• Understands non-routine notes, written instructions, and general policy statements
• Writes short informal notes, fills out simple forms
• Regular skilled use of more complex machines
• Performs a few simple laboratory or scientific procedures; records results as necessary

Office and administrative skills:

• Enters and retrieves data from given sources
• Refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual

Experience, education and formal training:

• Little or no 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/processes

Interpersonal relations:

• Little or no involvement outside immediate work unit
• Offers basic information or provides assistance on general matters
• Understands and conveys simple messages and instructions verbally

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 in all new situations, methods, and procedures

Independent judgment:

• Established procedures/policies govern most 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 somewhat difficult to recognize but not difficult to correct and usually affect only own work

Working conditions:

• Ongoing possibility of safety risks
• Occasional conflicting demands, time pressure, deadlines or emergencies
• Regular sustained concentration
• Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity

Certification:

• AALAS Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician Certification preferred