Animal Laboratory Technician

Join Our Team at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Are you excited about the potential of joining a dedicated and successful team that is growing and expanding? At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while advancing science through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies.

About Us

Our work in specialty diagnostics – from providing diagnostic assays and instruments to clinical monitoring across disease stages – improves the diagnosis and management of blood cancers and immune system disorders. Your determination to put patients at the heart of every decision will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

The Binding Site, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is a global leader in specialty diagnostics that provides diagnostic assays and instruments to improve the diagnosis and management of blood cancers and immune system disorders. The Binding Site Freelite® offering is widely recommended for multiple myeloma diagnosis and monitoring across all stages of the disease by major clinical guideline publications. In addition, The Binding Site is an active and influential contributor to the broader scientific community. To find out more, visit  https://www.thermofisher.com/bindingsite

Location/Division Specific Information

The Binding Site VT specializes in the production of polyclonal antibodies, primarily in sheep, and is part of a larger diagnostic company based in England. We currently have a full-time, 40-hour position available for an Animal Lab Technician on our busy USDA registered sheep farm and laboratory in Benson, VT!

Discover Impactful Work

The full-time Animal Lab Technician is responsible for providing high-quality antisera, ensuring all procedural work is carried out/delivered in line with the company's supply and operation process. This includes production and any research and development and design control requirements, while adhering to the quality policy and other relevant regulatory and governing bodies and company policies.

A Day in the Life

• Antisera processing

• Collection of blood by plasmapheresis

• Completion of relevant records

• Antigen administration

• Test bleeding

• Weekly animal sorting for production activities

• Care for and ensure the welfare of animals including but not limited to feeding, watering, bedding, and routine mucking

Keys to Success

Education

• High School Diploma or GED Required

Experience

• 1+ year of work experience

• Working on a farm and/or with livestock preferred

• Working within a laboratory environment preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Valid driver's license required

• Excellent communication and organization skills (written and verbal)

• Able to communicate at all levels

• Good analytical skills

• Computer literacy

• Ability to multitask and prioritize workloads

• Must be able to work in a team environment

• Excellent attention to detail

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

• Dependability, reliability, and comfortable working in all weather conditions.

• Must be flexible due to the unpredictable nature of working with animals and on a farm

• Lift up to 50 pounds +/-

• Lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling

• Reaching, twisting, turning

• Walk on uneven, wet, slippery surfaces

• Must be willing to work weekends as scheduled

Join us and contribute to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Apply today!