The Jackson Laboratory
Animal Care Trainee $19.25hr Ellsworth ME
Ellsworth, Maine · Full-time
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About the role
- Your career begins here at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX)!
- ANIMAL CARE TRAINEES HOURLY WAGE! $19.25/hr.
- Do you have a background in Warehouse, Food Service, Retail/ Customer Service, OR Healthcare??
Responsibilities
- Maintains with guidance appropriate breeding scheme(s), program or area specific
- Maintain accurate and legible cage cards and data input
- Performs basic data entry and records i.e. AX, cage cards)
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED equivalency as well as prior successful work experience is required for all candidates
- Performs inventory discard as required.
Skills
- For more information, please visit www.jax.org .
- EEO Statement:
Benefits
- Join the JAX Animal Care team and be part of a mission to improve human health worldwide.
- This is a full-time position that offers a dynamic and supportive work environment.
- Successful and accurate daily Welfare check for proper food, water, bedding and wellbeing.
- Observe & report with guidance variances from health standard.
- Identifies abnormal animals while learning to determine if for Necropsy or Deviant Search.
- Manage with guidance breeding rotation (make-up, retirement, non-productive units)
- Learns to select mice basic stock strains of mice for sales orders
Company info
- Animal Care is part of the production team at JAX and work requires attention to detail, working in a highly controlled clean room environment, fast paced that provides continuous physical movement.
- Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease.
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