Location: West Haven, CT
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Working at Yale means contributing to a better tomorrow. Whether you are a current resident of our New Haven-based community- eligible for opportunities through the New Haven Hiring Initiative or a newcomer, interested in exploring all that Yale has to offer, your talents and contributions are welcome. Discover your opportunities at Yale! **Overview** This position is for a laboratory/animal technician supporting a microbiology laboratory in Yale School of Medicine. The position will involve laboratory specific maintenance and research support tasks as well as animal husbandry including in a specialized (gnotobiotic) facility. Duties and Responsibilities may include maintains laboratory facilities and work areas including inventory and restocking of supplies. Orders supplies, equipment and apparatus for laboratory and animal facility. Maintains laboratory and animal facility cleanliness. Sets up, operates, and distributes laboratory and animal facility supplies/equipment for experiments. Performs equipment maintenance in laboratory and animal facility. Operates autoclaves for sterilization of supplies. This position also provides husbandry support for animals in a specialized (gnotobiotic) facility. Preparation of supplies for mouse husbandry including sterile preparation of food, water, bedding, cages and miscellaneous supplies. Observe and evaluate animals for signs of illness, stress and deviation in animal conditions. Prepare and administer special diets/water to designated animals. May assist in animal techniques such as drug administration and sample collection. Maintain required records/activity logs according to institutional, local and federal regulatory standards and lab specific practices. This position works closely with research staff and the laboratory manager to provide research support through various tasks including preparation of scientific solutions, media/supplies, experimental setup, modification of equipment as needed for experimental specifica