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Assistant Primate Keeper (Research Animal Resources)

Baltimore, MD • On-site

Johns Hopkins University
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Job description

We are seeking an Assistant Primate Keeper who will provide animal care for a breeding colony of group-housed monkeys in an indoor/outdoor facility. Required training will be provided to new staff at all experience levels, regarding safety, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for husbandry and care, animal behavior, and other related topics. This role assists the Animal Care Assistant Manager and/or Primate Keepers in the overall care of primates and maintenance of the facility.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
  • Assist in providing daily care to primates, including but not limited to, feeding, cleaning animal enclosures, and preparing and distributing enrichment.
  • Clean indoor and outdoor animal enclosures and other associated areas, ensuring safe use of cleaning solutions and sufficient disinfection of surfaces according to facility SOPs.
  • Perform routine enclosure maintenance, including raking, minor repairs, and other routine maintenance activities.
  • Complete daily census of animals.
  • Observe and report out on physical condition and health of animals.
  • Monitor and report on animal behavior and social interactions.
  • Inspect facilities and animal enclosure elements to ensure safety and security.
  • Shift, capture, restrain animals as needed.
  • Provide daily occupational environmental enrichments and inspect, clean, and replace physical enrichments.
  • Perform routine maintenance and make minor repairs to equipment and facilities.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and SOPs.
  • Maintain records, inventory, and other information.
  • Assist with receiving and shipping non-human primates.
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • This role will never be required to work at the facility alone and must always report daily to the Animal Care Assistant Manager or their delegate.
  • Able to work a rotating weekend and holiday schedule.

Minimum Qualifications
  • High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
  • One year of work experience.
  • Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Prior experience working with animals.
  • Prior experience working in an outdoor setting.

Specific Physical Requirements for the Job
  • Ability to lift, carry or otherwise move and position objects and materials weighing up to 40 lbs.
  • Ability to work under environmental conditions that require the use of safety equipment.
  • Work is performed indoors and outdoors with exposure to all seasonal weather conditions, with frequent exposure to and contact with animals, that can carry the risk of zoonotic disease transmission.
  • Specialty Occupational Health requirements up to date and complete required.

Classified Title: Assistant Primate Keeper
Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/02/CB
Starting Salary Range: $15.40 - $23.25 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F / 7am-3:30pm
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: Research Animal Resources
Personnel area: University Administration
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Gilman believed that teaching and research go hand in hand—that success in one depends on success in the other—and that a modern university must do both well. He also believed that sharing our knowledge and discoveries would help make the world a better place. In 145 years, we haven’t strayed from that vision. This is still a destination for excellent, ambitious scholars and a world leader in teaching and research. Distinguished professors mentor students in the arts and music, humanities, social and natural sciences, engineering, international studies, education, business, and the health professions. Those same faculty members, along with their colleagues at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory, have made us the nation’s leader in federal research and development funding every year since 1979. That’s a fitting distinction for America’s first research university, a place that has revolutionized higher education in the U.S. and continues to bring knowledge and discoveries to the world.

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