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About the Role

We are seeking an adaptable and organized Veterinary Technician motivated by the ethical care of animals to contribute to Neion’s research program. This role involves hands-on care and handling of chickens throughout their lifecycle, including hatching and breeding, as well as all aspects of avian veterinary care and basic husbandry tasks.

Responsibilities

• Safely handle chickens in a research setting, working with flocks at all stages of development from egg collection, incubation, and the successful hatching and growth of chicks and chickens.
• Restrain and perform venipuncture, collect and process samples, ensure lab delivery, and provide preventative and interventional avian veterinary care.
• Adhere to biosecurity protocols, including showering into the facility and working in full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and observing strict standard operating protocols (SOPs).
• Support team members with replacing feed and water, providing enrichments, egg collection, and other standard maintenance tasks.
• Contribute to ensuring the health and environmental, nutritional, and social enrichment of our flocks.
• Maintain timely and accurate animal records.
• Help ensure that research areas and records meet and exceed IACUC inspection compliance.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on animal care experience in a research, small animal clinical, farm, or zoological setting, including direct hands-on avian experience.
• Prior experience incubating and hatching eggs and raising chickens is beneficial.
• Prior experience working effectively in a barrier or isolation facility is helpful.
• Extreme attention to detail is critical.
• Strict compliance with SOPs is required.
• Ability to operate with quiet confidence and competence, individually and as part of a team to promote a culture of care.

Skills

• Avian veterinary care
• Animal handling
• Biosecurity protocols
• Record keeping
• Regulatory compliance
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) usage
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) adherence

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 4+ years experience

Education Level

• Undergraduate degree in biological sciences or from a Veterinary Technical program accredited by the AVMA and have passed the Veterinary Technician National Exam (VTNE) or a state Licensed Technician Veterinary Exam (LVTE), or equivalent real-world experience.
• Undergraduate or an associate degree in biological sciences or related fields, or equivalent industry experience.

Salary/Compensations

• $60K-$70K base salary
• Additional 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.
• 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.