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Animal Care Technician (18 month fixed term contract to perm)
Apply remote type On-site locations Belton, Leicestershire, UK time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id JR100333
Our team are passionate about animal welfare and love working with rabbits and rodents.
Does this sound like you?
In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring the well-being of our animals, providing exceptional care to rabbits and rodents, including feeding, cleaning and breeding responsibilities in a production facility.
We’ll support your training and development to learn new skills and experiences which will allow you to both progress in your role, and also to your next role. You’ll have the opportunity to continue to progress your career as far as you want to. Our Team Leaders, Supervisors and Operations teams once started their careers as Animal Care Technicians.
If you're hardworking, detail-oriented and have a passion for animals, then we’d love for you to be a part of our team, working at a facility that breeds and cares for animals, in a production environment.
About you:
You have a genuine interest in animal development and breeding, and you’re comfortable handling and holding rabbits or rodents.
You either have a qualification in animal care (or similar), or previous experience working in an animal related environment (handling and caring for animals).
Attention to detail is key in this role as you’ll be keeping accurate records of breeding, feeding, cleaning and animal care activities. You’ll also coordinate order details, including selection, packaging, ensuring accuracy at all times.
You’re a great team player, you’re flexible to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis and are happy to work overtime if it’s needed.
Location/Benefits:
This is a full-time, 18 month fixed term contract (with the potential to be made permanent), based at our Hillcrest site in Belton, just outside of Loughborough.
As an Animal Technician, there are a range of hours you’ll work across, these are all based on the areas you’ll work in. Some of our teams start at 05:00, and some of our teams finish at 17:00. We try to be as flexible as possible to accommodate your needs – we do however all finish by 14:00 on Fridays.
* A starting salary of £25,982 (or more with experience).
* 33 days holiday (inc. 8 public holidays).
* Pension Scheme.
* Flexible benefits scheme including private healthcare, dental care, eye care, cycle to work scheme, retail discounts, additional holiday purchase -and many more!
Due to the nature of this role, candidates cannot have pet rodents (mice, rats or guinea-pigs) or rabbits for biosecurity reasons. Please make us aware if you have animals that feed on rodents (snakes, birds).
Candidates must be able to drive due to limited public transport.
About us:
Inotiv is a growing contemporary drug discovery and development company where we “Play to Win” in an industry rich with opportunity. Together, we face challenges and together we win in the delivery of world-class drug discovery and development solutions that impact the health and well-being of people all over the world. There’s an opportunity for everyone at all phases of a career, each individual’s unique skill set has an impact on the work we conduct. If you have the talent and desire to impact the quality of people’s lives, we have the career opportunities to make it happen. Join us in embracing research and science to impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.
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Inotiv is a growing contemporary drug discovery and development company where we “Play to Win” in an industry rich with opportunity. Together, we face challenges and together we win in the delivery of world-class drug discovery and development solutions that impact the health and well-being of people all over the world. There’s an opportunity for everyone at all phases of a career, each individual’s unique skill set has an impact on the work we conduct. If you have the talent and desire to impact the quality of people’s lives, we have the career opportunities to make it happen. Join us in embracing research and science to impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.
Salary will be commensurate with experience and responsibilities.
Inotiv is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including selection, job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits and training.
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We’re looking for people who will help us grow and support our shared purpose: to help our clients discover and develop life-changing therapies for people around the world. As a leading contract research organization (CRO), Inotiv supports discovery and nonclinical development through investigational new drug (IND) and beyond. By leveraging our deep expertise and scientific capabilities, we help you increase efficiency, improve data, and reduce the cost of taking new drugs to market. By providing critical research models and related services, we help researchers realize the full potential of their R&D projects, all while working together to build a healthier and safer world. We hope you consider our opportunities and a future with Inotiv!
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