JobID: 9883
Category: Vet & Animal Care
JobSchedule: Full time
Posted Date: 2026-09-14T15:06:42+00:00
JobShift:
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Market Range: 04
Hiring Salary: $18.00/Hourly
JOB SUMMARY/ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Cage Wash Technician will operate and maintain the program's cage washing and cage/rack systems. This position exists to provide key important and required job functions as a member of a specific work team that supports a large complex, integrated, and centralized laboratory animal resource program in an academic health science center campus. The program that this position supports requires a diverse team of technicians, supervisors, managers, and professionals who collectively operate a complex research facility that houses, maintains, cares for, and supports live animals for use in biomedical research.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
EDUCATION:
High School Diploma or GED. (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED)
EXPERIENCE:
Six (6) months of work-related experience with animals, sanitization, or operating machinery is desirable.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Ability to lift objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Ability to follow written and verbal directions with attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers and supervisor.
- Ability to perform physical duties, which may include standing, pushing, pulling and lifting, pushing or pulling loaded bulk trucks and racks.
- Ability to withstand extensive exposure to disagreeable elements such as elevated temperatures, high humidity, dust, and excessive noise; possess manual dexterity skills to assemble and disassemble cages, load caging into automated washing machines, and re-assemble cleaned cages.
- Ability and willingness to use disinfecting and sterilizing chemical agents.
- Ability and willingness to wear the protective gear provided by the department.
WORK SCHEDULE:
This position may occasionally be required to work weekends and evenings.
- Receives soiled caging into cage wash area, performs pre-cleaning of caging, and disassembles cages as necessary to prepare for loading into automated cage washing machines as directed by supervisor and in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Empties soiled bedding and waste from soiled cages and disposes of soiled bedding in accordance with instructions from supervisor and standard operating procedures.
- Loads caging into automated cage washing machines in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Performs cage washing through operation of automated cage washing machines in accordance with standard operating procedures and as directed by supervisor.
- Assesses sanitation and effectiveness of cage washing and sanitizing processes in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Performs preventive maintenance, start up, and shut down of equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Prepares and fills orders for processed cages and equipment for specific work areas with input from animal care technicians and supervisors,
- Loads bulk bedding into automated bedding dispenser.
- Maintains records of cage washing machines sanitation effectiveness in accordance with standard operating procedure.
- Assesses cage washing and cage processing equipment for proper operation daily.
- Performs manual cage washing and sanitation as directed by supervisor.
- Removes clean cages from automated cage washing equipment, adds bedding, and re-assembles cages as directed by supervisor and in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Receives soiled caging into cage wash area, performs pre-cleaning of caging, and disassembles cages as necessary to prepare for loading into automated cage washing machines as directed by supervisor and in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Empties soiled bedding and waste from soiled cages and disposes of soiled bedding in accordance with instructions from supervisor and standard operating procedures.
- Loads caging into automated cage washing machines in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Performs cage washing through operation of automated cage washing machines in accordance with standard operating procedures and as directed by supervisor.
- Assesses sanitation and effectiveness of cage washing and sanitizing processes in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Performs preventive maintenance, start up, and shut down of equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Prepares and fills orders for processed cages and equipment for specific work areas with input from animal care technicians and supervisors,
- Loads bulk bedding into automated bedding dispenser.
- Maintains records of cage washing machines sanitation effectiveness in accordance with standard operating procedure.
- Assesses cage washing and cage processing equipment for proper operation daily.
- Performs manual cage washing and sanitation as directed by supervisor.
- Removes clean cages from automated cage washing equipment, adds bedding, and re-assembles cages as directed by supervisor and in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.