Working under general supervision, the Surgical Technician is responsible for performing minor surgeries, surgical-related and surgical support tasks to fulfill customer orders consistent with surgical services quality and productivity standards.
The Surgical Technologist is responsible for performing basic major surgical procedures and surgical support tasks to fulfill customer orders consistent with surgical services quality and productivity standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Technician:

• Performs surgical related tasks such as pre-operative health assessment, providing safe and effective anesthesia, administering and recording correct dosage of medications, monitoring intra-operative vitals, ensuring successful anesthetic recovery. In addition, maintains accurate, consistent, and complete surgical documentation.
• Provides surgical support, such as post-operative animal assessment and treatment, stocking and sanitization of surgical areas, equipment maintenance, basic husbandry, and packing mice for shipment to customers.
• Performs minor surgery such as incision repair.
• Works to develop surgical skills and performs other duties as required.

Technologist:

• Performs basic major surgical procedures such as testicle removal (castration), ovary removal (ovariectomy) and vas deferens ligation (vasectomy).
• Executes all related surgical tasks such as pre-operative health assessment, providing safe and effective anesthesia, administering and recording correct dosage of medications, monitoring intra-operative vitals, ensuring successful anesthetic recovery. In addition, maintains accurate, consistent, and complete surgical documentation.
• Provides surgical support, such as post-operative animal assessment and treatment, stocking and sanitization of surgical areas, equipment maintenance, basic husbandry, and packing mice for shipment to customers.
• Works to develop and refine surgical skills and performs other duties as required.

*Ability to work alternate schedule including weekend days preferred*

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of animal anatomy and physiology as would normally be acquired through a BS degree in Animal Science or related field or high school diploma and 1 year experience working with rodents
• Ability to work with rodents.
• Ability to aseptically perform minor survival surgical procedures on mice utilizing a microscope.
• Interpersonal skills sufficiently advanced to successfully interact with people representing a variety of levels of sophistication.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Must have good working knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel.
• Ability to work a flexible work schedule (including rotating weekend/holiday coverage) and travel occasionally.
• Ability to perform confident, responsible animal handling and a variety of biomethods.
• Proven and consistent high level of attention to detail.
• Able to prioritize task assignments and communicate progress with team.
• Actively seeks to improve skills, facilitate learning, and understand job related items.

About The Jackson Laboratory

About JAX: The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with more than 2,400 employees. Headquartered in Bar Harbor, Maine, it has a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center in Augusta, Maine, a genomic medicine institute in Farmington, Connecticut, and facilities in Ellsworth, Maine, Sacramento, California, and Shanghai, China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health. JAX employees work in a collaborative, value-driven, and team-based environment where the focus is on advancing science and improving patients’ lives. Researchers apply genetics to increase the understanding of human disease and advance treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging, and heart disease. JAX was voted among the top 15 “Best Places to Work in Academia” in the United States in a poll conducted by The Scientist magazine!

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