Supervisor, Laboratory Animal Care

The Laboratory Animal Care Supervisor organizes and directs the work and training of our animal care technician team. They are responsible for providing overall oversight and leadership to the team, scheduling personnel, purchasing adequate supplies for the department, and ensuring proper training and execution of tasks. This position will also provide animal care support in accordance with all standard operating procedures (SOPs), applicable state and federal regulations, where needed.

Located onsite daily at Inotiv's Ft Collins location.

*This position could be offered at different levels for candidates who qualify with a combination of advanced levels of education and/or years of experience.  The salary range is $61,000-73,000/year and will adjust along with the level of the role to match the person’s relevant experience and/or education level. 

Salary will be commensurate with experience and responsibilities. Benefits include health and dental coverage, short- and long-term disability, paid time off, paid parental leave, 401K, and more!

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have the knowledge, skills, and abilities identified below and perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily, either with or without reasonable accommodation. The below is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for this job’s performance and is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of essential functions, responsibilities or requirements. 

Key Accountabilities
Supervisory and Leadership

• Responsible for daily operations of Animal Care team including preparing and prioritizing workflow, ensuring adequate coverage and adherence to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures.  
• Directly supervises one or more employees. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. Escalates personnel issues to manager and/or HR as appropriate. 
• Spearheads and implements a comprehensive training program for animal care team to ensure consistency in learning and understanding of policies and procedures. Provides on-the-job training and learning labs for staff to grow in their skills. Assists employees with extra training and assessment if needed. Continuously evaluates and strives to improve training program.
• Creates and maintains animal care personnel scheduling, ensuring adequate coverage for daily operations, lunches/breaks and absences. 
• Understands and ensures regulatory requirements are being followed by team members.  
• Ensures technicians are checking inventory levels of related animal care supplies (i.e. feed, enrichment, cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment) including for expiration. 
• Manages the purchasing for animal care, including ordering of animal food, enrichment, and supplies, etc.  Receives and tracks appropriate inventory in accounting system. 
• Maintains feed certificates for study reference. 
• Reviews study protocol and notebook prior to study initiation. Regularly participates in pre-study meetings. 
• Communicates and makes recommendations to their manager on workflow, equipment issues, and other requests or concerns received. 
• Responsible for building and maintaining productive working relationships between team members to increase efficiency of the team.
• Ensures daily data review is being performed by technicians and assists as needed.
• Accurately and timely completes appropriate entries into the electronic data capture system or on paper records.

Animal Care and Support
The following job duties are supplemental in nature to this position and will be performed on an as needed basis (i.e. inadequate coverage, etc.). 

• Performs husbandry (food, water, cleaning pens) and general room cleaning procedures for various animal species. Monitors well-being of animals and ensures they have adequate space, safe and secure housing, and appropriate enrichment. 
• Monitors temperature and humidity in animal rooms and reports heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) issues to appropriate staff. 
• Accurately completes animal welfare checks/mortality checks and animal husbandry records.
• Performs animal receiving procedures including preparation of cage cards, entry and study start physical exams, and completion of animal receipt records.  
• Restrains a variety of animal species for treatments/procedures. 
• Provides animal handling for euthanasia procedures.