POSITION
Equine Veterinary & Laboratory Technician
Location
Maryland
Status
OPEN
Description
This is a full-time position with both Select Breeders Services (SBS) and Select Breeders Veterinary Services (SBS-VS).This is a cross-trained position that will work within the SBS laboratory and SBS-VS. The position reports to the SBS-VS Head Veterinary Technician and will perform those duties as identified under "veterinary technician" and "laboratory technician" below.
Responsibilities as Veterinary Technician:
- Safely restrain neonatal foals and adult equines for veterinary procedures
- Administer medications to horses as directed by veterinarian.
- Assist with daily horse care including occasional stall cleaning, feeding, watering, turn-out and grooming when required. Must be able to lift and move water buckets, bales of straw and hay.
- Maintain medical records (filing and tracking).
- Assist with scheduling of incoming and outgoing horses, and daily veterinary appointments.
- Assist with client communication regarding arrival and departure of horses.
- Coordinate with Vet Tech Manager and Equine Facilities Manager regarding the logistics of housing an ever-changing population of mares.
- Performing evening barn checks when scheduled.
- Fill in for foal watch shifts when necessary.
Skills Required:
- Horsemanship, horse care and general horse handling.
- Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office programs and Wise Option equine management software.
- Fundamental understanding of equine reproduction and breeding management.
- Hold a valid driver's license and be able to drive a standard size pickup truck with attached trailer.
- Experience working as an equine vet tech is required.
- Experience working as a small animal vet tech is preferred but not required.
- Certification as a Veterinary Technician would be beneficial but is not required.
Responsibilities as Veterinary Technician:
Overall Laboratory Maintenance
- In-house Quality Control cleaning program
- Equipment maintenance
- Laboratory supply inventory
- Maintain daily and weekly logs
- USDA collection log, Daily Activities
- Laboratory billing sheets
Cooled and Frozen Semen Processing
- Assist with and perform resident, trailer-in and mobile lab stallion collections
- Processing semen collections for cooled semen distribution
- Prepare shipping documents.
- Package Equitainers
- Perform slow cools and tracking of cooled semen quality trends.
- Liaison with stallion and mare owners regarding cooled semen quality.
- Assist with end of season summary reports.
- Processing semen collections for frozen semen storage and distribution.
- Freezing ejaculates collected on site and off when in mobile lab.
- Perform post-thaw analyses.
- Frozen semen client reports
- Maintain data records and tracking.
- Send weekly and final reports to clients.
Media Production
- Assist with in-house extender production
- Assist with affiliate laboratory extender production
- Perform extender bioassays.
- Package and ship extender orders.
- Maintain data records and tracking.
- Extender laboratory equipment maintenance
- Glassware cleaning and sterlizing
Quality Control
- In-house Quality Control
- Assist with performing mobile lab counts and cultures.
- Assist with QC post-thaws from affiliate labs.
- Receive incoming tanks from affiliate labs.
- Perform post-thaws and data into data score sheets.
Endocrinology
- Perform blood draws on horses and dogs.
- Package and ship specimens for outside testing.
- Run various bloodwork including: Progesterone Assays, Foal IGG, Serum Amyloid A Assays and Brucellosis Tests.
Storage and Distribution
- Packaging of frozen semen shipments for domestic and international distribution.
- Assist with inventory of inbound frozen semen shipments.
- Weekly LN2 checks of all frozen semen storage tanks.
- Assist with pre-season check of vapor shippers.
- Charge vapor shippers.
Skills Required:
- Basic computer skills
- Proficient in basic laboratory procedures - Pipetting, dilutions, microscopy, etc.
- fundamental understanding of equine reproduction and breeding management.
- Prior experience with semen collection and evaluation procedures is beneficial.
- Training in specific SBS protocols will be provided.
Laboratory Experience: 1 year (preferred)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: From $16.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Sick Leave
- Health Insurance
- Company paid Short-Term Disability
- 401K
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Small and Large Animal Veterinary Services Discounts
- Uniform Allowance
Schedule:
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends
Work Location: Multiple locations
Education: Bacherlor's (Preferred)
Interested parties should email a Letter of Interest and Resume to:
KimRennewanz kimrennewanz@selectbreeders.com
Select Breeders Service, Inc.
Attn: Kim Rennewanz
961 Cayots Corner Rd
Chesapeake City, MD 21915
(410) 885-3202