Animal Technician Specialist – Administrative Track

** Job Description
**** The Department of Comparative Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for Animal Technician 2 to join their team.
**** About this Opportunity
** This Animal Technician 2 is to provide advanced administrative, fiscal, and operational support across animal facilities. This position serves as an operational point of continuity in the absence of supervisory staff, ensuring accurate animal census reporting, billing support, facility coverage coordination, inventory, and compliance documentation. The role requires independent judgment, strong attention to detail, and effective communication with animal technicians, management, veterinary services, and research staff.
** Key Responsibilities (
** essential functions underlined)
** Specialist Administrative Duties – 25%
**** Facility Administrative Operations
*** Provide administrative and operational support across animal facilities.
* Serve as an operational contact in the supervisor’s absence, escalating issues as needed.
* Assist staff, Veterinary Services, and research personnel with facility needs during assigned coverage periods.
** Animal Census, Billing & Records Management
*** Manage the weekly census collection system for per diem billing, including:
* Scanning individual animal census cards for accuracy.
* Running and reviewing cards for completeness and data integrity.
* Identifying and correcting data errors prior to upload.
* Uploading census files to support Animal Billing and OAW Hoverboard records.
* Processing bar-coded card strips (including weaning, separation, and overcrowding) on a daily basis.
* Review facility logs, identify inaccuracies, alert the supervisor, and ensure proper filing and record retention.
** Scheduling & Coverage Coordination
*** Assign daily room coverage in the absence of the supervisor and communicate staffing changes as needed.
* Coordinate weekend and holiday coverage in the supervisor’s absence to ensure continuous facility operations.
** Animal Receiving & Housing Preparation
*** Receive animal deliveries and audit associated documentation for completeness and accuracy.
* Prepare cages and housing in accordance with approved protocols and facility standards.
** Fiscal & Inventory Responsibilities
*** Perform daily and weekly AOPS duties, including facility fiscal responsibilities.
* Conduct inventory of feed, bedding, and consumable supplies; track usage and support fiscal accountability.
* Support compliance with purchasing, inventory, and cost-tracking requirements.
** Routine Husbandry Task - 75%
*** Perform complex animal husbandry duties including those in in biocontainment* (e.g., ABSL2, ABSL2+) or bioexclusion (e.g., isolation, quarantine, Helicobacter spp-free) areas.
* Perform preventive animal health care duties.
* Perform delegated administrative functions in support of animal facility management and operations such as performing regular inventory assessments, initiating supply and equipment requests, documenting equipment maintenance and repairs, filing documents, and generating and posting signs and labels.
* Assist in receiving and storing materials, food, and supplies.
* May assist in training and directing the work of new and lower level animal technicians and research technicians.
* Assist in installation and routine maintenance of caging systems (e.g., ventilated rodent racks) and other non-fixed facility equipment.
* Document equipment maintenance and repairs in accordance with facility guidelines.
* Collect and evaluate water and environmental samples to record water quality, and support animal health and sanitation efficacy testing.
* Perform CO2 euthanasia of rodents,
* Follow standard operating procedures, working guidelines, and related documents.
* Perform and document daily…