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About the Role
Neion Bio is seeking an experienced, efficient, and organized manager to lead animal operations at their Farmingdale site. This role involves managing a small avian care team, overseeing all aspects of animal operations, and performing daily hands-on avian care. Adaptability is essential in this fast-paced startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Own all day-to-day animal operations, ensuring safety, consistency, and adherence to protocols.
- Develop, implement, and optimize online tracking systems for operations and maintain detailed electronic records.
- Plan and schedule facility capacity, lead room setup, organization, redesign, and expansion.
- Establish and ensure adherence to barrier and isolation workflows.
- Create a crisis management site plan.
- Provide projections, manage inventories, and coordinate vendor contracts for deliveries, waste pick-up, and facility services.
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of animal care technicians, including scheduling, training, and performance management.
- Regularly work alongside the animal care team in handling animals, egg collection, room setup, cleaning, husbandry support, and operational coverage.
- Confirm daily animal welfare checks are performed and engage veterinary support for preventative and emergency interventions.
- Train staff, confirm compliance, and schedule testing to enforce biosecurity and biosurveillance programs.
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 husbandry
- Animal handling
- Welfare monitoring
- Sanitation
- Biosecurity
- Biosurveillance
- Facility operations
- Electronic systems development
- Scheduling
- Recordkeeping
- Team management
- Communication
- Mentoring
Location
- Farmingdale
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced manager
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in animal science, veterinary technology, biology, poultry science, laboratory animal science, agriculture, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $70K-$120K
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Relocation support
- Bonus compensation
- Equity compensation
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.
- 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.