Biotech Animal Technician

Voluntown, CT 06384

Posted: 02/19/2025 Employment Type: Direct Hire Division: Life Sciences Job Number: JN -022025-20244 State: Connecticut

Job Description

Biotech Animal Technician
  • Title: Biotech Animal Technician
  • Location: Voluntown, CT
  • Industry: Pharmaceutical
  • Salary: $25/hr.
  • Shift: 5:30am - 2pm Days - including weekends
  • Employment Type: Direct Hire

Overview
Provide customers with quality incubated eggs through the setting, monitoring. candling and packing process. Complete associated paperwork and perform housekeeping duties


Essential duties and responsibiliites:
  • Set eggs according to customer or management specifications.
  • Record appropriate information on order sheet (e.g. date, flock number, quantity)
  • Prepare incubation tags for each order.
  • Monitor temperature and humidity levels of each machine twice daily.
  • Candle eggs and pack incubated eggs orders according to customer specification.
  • Select out appropriate eggs for breeder stock.
  • Set eggs for flock replacement and bird sales as required.
  • Complete and distribute all required incubation paperwork.
  • Input all incubation data into appropriate spreadsheets.
  • Clean incubators and associated equipment with appropriate solutions; perform weekly fumigation, maintaining biosecurity
  • Perform environmental sampling of incubators and complete associated paperwork.
  • Assist with egg processing/packing as needed.
  • Hatches (2x a week) requiring sorting and removal of birds
  • Responsible for the humane handling and proper disposal of euthanized birds in accordance with ethical, legal and biosecurity guidelines
  • Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
  • Education: High school diploma or General Education Degree (G.E.D.)

Physical Demands:
  • Must frequently lift/move flats of eggs weighing up to 30 pounds and regularly lift/move cases of eggs weighing up to 60 pounds.
  • Must constantly position self to access and inspect eggs and be able to assess their condition from various distances within the incubation area.
  • Showering in and out of facilities; protective clothing/equipment provided
  • Extended periods of time standing
  • No jewelry/piercings allowed in facility
  • Regularly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
  • Regularly provides information to and receives information from/through various technologies, media, sources and contacts. Must be able to accurately exchange accurate information in these situations.

Work Environment:
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals.
  • Regularly wears protective clothing (lab coats, safety glasses and gloves).
  • Exposure to dust and animal dander, protective clothing/equipment will be provided
  • Involves the handling and humane euthanasia of chickens in accordance with institutional and regulatory guidelines, ensuring ethical treatment and compliance with protocols
  • May work near live animals with risk of exposure to allergens and/or zoonotic disease(s).
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to sanitation chemicals and odors.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
SRG offers flexible staffing solutions with a national presence. We provide contract, contract-to-hire, direct hire and executive search services. SRG utilizes an innovative approach to identify and qualify talent that is unique to the Staffing industry, featuring a cutting-edge platform that allows us to match professionals rapidly and precisely to client requirements. We have a proprietary database of over one million candidates and maintain continuous contact with our qualified talent.

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