Job Title
Veterinary Technician II
Agency
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Department
Pharmacy Finance Centralized
Proposed Minimum Salary
Commensurate
Job Location
Kingsville, Texas
Job Type
Staff
Job Description
Glimpse of the Job
🐭🐰 Veterinary Technician II
From monitoring animal health and supporting research procedures to maintaining a safe and enriching vivarium environment, you'll play an important role in the care and well-being of rodents while contributing to research that advances scientific discovery.
Join us and help support the research that drives tomorrow's discoveries. Apply today! 🐾
What you need to know
Salary: $20.04-25.00 Commensurate based on education and experience
Location: Kingsville, Texas
Schedule: Requires working different shifts and participating in on-call coverage. May be required to work alternate shifts, overtime, holidays, weekends, and/or on-call duty.
Responsibilities:
Vivarium Duties
- Assist faculty by doing daily rounds, sending out emails to investigators about the health of their animals, and treating animals.
- Perform basic care and husbandry procedures.
- Observe and report changes in temperature, air exchange rate, light/dark cycles, and humidity in the animal room environment.
- Maintain animal inventory and recordkeeping
- Manual cage cleaning, providing food/water/enrichment
- Change cages, feeds, and water animals according to established schedules.
- Ability to recognize abnormal health conditions, and overcrowding issues.
- Observation and recognition of subtle differences in animal behavior and appearance.
- Receives and implements special care and special diet for certain animals.
- Maintain the rodent health surveillance programs at Vivarium; including scheduling sentinel shipments, replacing sentinels, collecting and submitting diagnostic samples.
- Performing sanitation assessments as part of the quality assurance program
- Oversee surgical room protocols requiring anesthesia, surgical assistance, and principals of asepsi
- Operates large cage washing machines, autoclaves, and participates with preventive maintenance; recognizes and reports malfunctioning or unsafe equipment and conditions.
- Use high level disinfectants and detergents to accomplish cleaning.
- Maintain sanitation and disease prevention conditions. This includes sterile techniques when handling animals, cleaning and sterilizing floors, and walls.
- Cleaning, decontamination, and sterilization of lab equipment.
- Knowledgeable on the types of equipment, animals, and supplies coming into facility.
Administrative Duties
- Arranging and preparing all necessary forms for animal transfers and housing animals for shipment.
- Consults with veterinarian regarding animal health issues
- Occasional assistance in ordering is needed to help Vivarium manager.
- Assists in storing all incoming supplies.
Qualifications:
Required Education and Experience
- Associate degree in veterinary technology, biomedical science, animal science or a related area, or any equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Two years of technical experience in veterinary medicine.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to understand and practice all applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), training manuals, and Biosafety and Operation Manuals.
- Ability to communicate effectively with fellow technicians, the Veterinarian, Study Director, and/or PI.
- Basic computer skills in word processing, spreadsheets, and billing entry.
- Working knowledge of veterinary equipment used within a veterinary teaching hospital.
- Strong animal handling skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively and positively at all levels within the anesthesia service and the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
- Ability to multitask and cooperate with others.
- Knowledge of high flow/low flow anesthesia.
- Familiar with injectable and inhalant anesthesia
- Experience working with various individuals and communities.
Why Texas A&M University?
We are a prestigious university with strong traditions, Core Values, and a community of caring and collaboration.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life and AD&D, flexible spending accounts, and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
- 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
- Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
- Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
- Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time
- Professional Development: All employees have access to free LinkedIn Learning training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more
- Educational release time and tuition assistance for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee
- Living Well, a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees
Instructions to Applicants: Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered, or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.
All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.
Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.
