About the Role
Neion Bio is seeking an experienced, efficient, and organized manager to lead animal operations across multiple facilities. This role is based in NYC and involves leading the avian care team and directly managing all aspects of animal operations. Adaptability is a must, as the role requires hands-on care and handling of animals and assisting scientific staff as needed.
Responsibilities
- Own all day-to-day animal operations across Neion Bio’s facilities, ensuring animals are cared for safely, consistently, and in accordance with approved protocols and company procedures.
- Ensure all aspects of operations are clearly and consistently scheduled, tracked, and organized in electronic systems.
- Develop, implement, and optimize online tracking systems, connecting operations in the animal facility to the lab.
- Uphold detailed electronic records.
- Plan and schedule facility capacity.
- Lead the setup, organization, redesign, and expansion of animal rooms and workflows.
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of animal care technicians, including scheduling, training, performance management, and allocation of weekly responsibilities.
- Work directly alongside the animal care team as needed, including animal handling, egg collection, room setup, cleaning, husbandry support, and operational coverage.
- Coordinate closely with the Head of Avian Science to execute scientific and strategic goals set by the leadership team.
Requirements
- Experience managing or supervising animal care technicians, veterinary technicians, farm staff, or other operational personnel in a related field.
- Effective communicator and mentor engaging personnel across a range of roles.
- Hands-on experience working in animal operations, laboratory animal facilities, poultry facilities, breeding colonies, research farms, or a comparable regulated animal-care environment.
- Demonstrated ability to own complex daily operations, including scheduling, staffing, recordkeeping, facility organization, and coordination across multiple workstreams.
- Strong working knowledge of animal husbandry, animal handling, welfare monitoring, sanitation, biosecurity and testing, and facility operations.
- Experience building or improving electronic operational systems, schedules, and tracking tools.
- Comfort working in a small, fast-moving organization where leaders are expected to remain hands-on and assist with routine operational work when needed.
Skills
- Animal handling
- Egg collection
- Room setup
- Cleaning
- Husbandry support
- Operational coverage
- Animal husbandry
- Welfare monitoring
- Sanitation
- Biosecurity
- Testing
- Facility operations
Location
- NYC
- Long Island
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Experienced manager
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $80K-$130K base salary
- Bonus compensation
- Equity compensation
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Relocation support
About the Company
- Neion Bio is harnessing nature’s best molecular factory, the chicken egg, to make medicine affordable, accessible, and resilient.
- We turn farms into medicine factories using cutting edge genetic engineering and stem cell technology.
- These “living bioreactors” are fully autonomous 3D biomolecular printers that operate on existing industrial-scale infrastructure.
- Our platform can rapidly and scalably produce almost any protein, provide national resilience to drug shortages and de-risk complex supply chains, and ultimately take advantage of novel biological environments to solve unmet medical needs.
- Biomanufacturing, reinvented. Medicine, democratized.
