Lead Animal Technologist

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States; 100% onsite

Salary: $64,600–$82,800 per year

Company

Cancer research and patient care institute focused on advancing treatments, public health, and medical education.

What you will do

• Provide clinical care, treatments, handling, restraint, and euthanasia for laboratory animals as directed by veterinary and technical services leadership.
• Manage mouse colony activities, including sexing, weaning, breeding-pair establishment, identification, and electronic cage-card updates.
• Perform injections, blood collection, serum preparation, sample collection, and other assigned small-animal study procedures.
• Monitor animal colonies for illness, injury, overcrowding, and mortality, and document and report findings.
• Prepare sentinel animals and samples for diagnostic pathogen testing and support quarantine imports, exports, and intramural transfers.
• Maintain accurate technical service, health, breeding, census, sterilization, receiving, disposition, and equipment records.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required; BA/BS preferred.
• Three years of experience in an AAALAC-accredited laboratory animal facility.
• Knowledge of laboratory animal studies, including IP, IV, SQ injections, oral gavage, blood collection, and minor surgical procedures.
• Experience with mouse breeding colonies, animal handling, treatments, and euthanasia.
• Organized, meticulous record keeping and basic computer skills with word processing and spreadsheets.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.

Nice to have

• One year of small-animal studies experience in academia or industry.
• AALAS Laboratory Animal Technician certification.
• Previous experience working with infectious agents at ABSL-2/3 level.
• Willingness to learn Bioluminescence Imaging techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, and equitable research and patient-care environment.
• Work alongside multidisciplinary teams and Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
• In-house training is provided before working in ABSL-2/3 areas.
• No patient contact is required.