Biological Science Laboratory Technician (Animal)

Department of Agriculture

This position is located in the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), Animal Resource Unit (ARU) in Manhattan, KS. If selected, you will be responsible for conducting comprehensive research, developing vaccines and anti-virals, and providing enhanced diagnostic and training capabilities to protect the nation from foreign or transboundary, emerging and zoonotic diseases that threaten livestock, other animals and food from the nation's farms and fields.

• Provides daily (including weekends, holidays, and occasional evenings) care, feeding, and welfare assessments.
• Makes observations concerning normal exercise and movement, rate of growth, weight change, appetite, feces, skin lesions, and discolored or rough fur or skin.
• Adapts to working with multiple species of livestock and traditional research animals within a variety of housing styles.
• Performs a variety of technical duties such as observations, sample collection or administration of medications or treatments to animals when requested and contributes ideas toward the planning and sequencing of the technical aspects of the studies.
• Captures and restrains animals according to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and research protocols.

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