Animal Care

Receive excellent pay - $18.00 per hour starting pay, free paid training!
$1,000 SIGN-ON BONUS WITH ADDITIONAL $2,000 BONUS AFTER 1 YEAR!

Our Animal Care operations are currently undergoing a massive expansion! NOW is an excellent time to join us!

If you have experience in retail, food service, health care, waitress, cook, CNA, janitorial, housekeeping, general labor, warehouse, manufacturing, stock associate, and are looking for a career instead of just a job- we would like to speak with you!

Benefits

• Health/Vision/Dental Insurance
• Paid Training
• Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick time off
• Receive regularly scheduled pay increases with the ability to increase your pay 25% in 2 years!
• Take advantage of extensive opportunities for career growth and advancement with the Lab
• Robust educational opportunities including genetics, lab animal science, and leadership courses onsite as well extensive hands on experience
• Receive tuition reimbursement support for college degrees

Responsibilities

• Mouse husbandry
• Maintain and monitor mouse health and welfare
• Maintain a sanitary environment and prepare animals for shipping
• Attention to detail
• Working in a highly controlled clean room environment
• Fast paced that provides continuous physical movement

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED equivalency as well as prior successful work experience is required for all candidates
• Lifting 25lbs on a regular basis
• Walking up a ladder
• Work well in a fast paced environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Successful candidates will clear a pre-employment physical and background check

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!

EEO Statement:
The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Signing bonus

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No

Work Location: Multiple Locations