Animal Care Staff Supervisor bei BioQual

OBJECTIVE:

The Animal Care Staff Supervisor directly supervises and coordinates activities of animal husbandry and animal care and cage wash staff. Understanding of regulatory requirements including all responsibilities to the care and welfare of laboratory animals.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent and AALAS certification preferred
• Understands and communicates in English
• Ability of lift up to 50lbs
• 4-5 years supervisory experience, 5+ years direct experience NHP/small animals

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise, facilitate and oversee the daily operations of animal caretaker and cage wash staff
• Provide supervision and assign personnel room assignments including weekend and holidays, call outs, leave and on call coverage. Approve/deny leave requests
• Assigning personnel to assure timely completion of daily husbandry duties
• Monitor quality of animal care, assessing of workloads
• Scheduling adherence of husbandry staff. Review and sign care staff time sheets
• Collect and distribute room logs
• Manage food prep cleaning schedule
• Manage care staff meetings and notes
• Report maintenance deficiencies in rooms for work orders
• Conduct performance reviews, administering disciplinary actions as appropriate in accordance with Policies, SOP and regulations with Facility Manager and HR.
• Perform weekly and daily room checks
• Monitoring inventory, ordering supplies (ex: food, bedding, etc), including water bottle swabs
• Perform other duties as assigned