Cage Wash Technician

Cage Wash Technician

Employer: Actalent. Job Title: Cage Wash Technician Job Description The Cage Wash Technician cleans, sanitizes, and sterilizes animal cages and accessories using mechanical washers and autoclaves, ensuring a continuous supply of clean equipment to support animal care and research activities. This role maintains daily cleanliness and biosecurity in the cage wash area, performs routine preventive maintenance on equipment, and supports facility operations through inventory management, equipment transport, and other assigned tasks. The position offers the opportunity to grow within a large animal research core environment. Responsibilities - Comprehend and follow standard operating procedures and guidelines to ensure personnel safety and maintain biosecurity while working in the cage wash area. - Wear the required personal protective equipment at all times in accordance with institutional and facility guidelines. - Process cages and cage accessories using mechanical washers and autoclaves, ensuring proper sanitation and sterilization. - Use temperature-sensitive indicators to verify effective sanitation and sterilization, and promptly report any equipment or process failures to supervisory staff and facility engineers. - Operate and use rack washers and autoclaves to sanitize and sterilize animal cages, racks, and related equipment. - Deliver clean cages and cage accessories to animal holding areas and retrieve used items for processing, ensuring a steady supply based on cage-change schedules and user demands. - Maintain inventory of cages, accessories, and supplies on the clean/sterile side of the cage wash area, animal feed rooms, and other designated storage areas as directed by the supervisor. - Perform routine preventive maintenance on washers, autoclaves, racks, automatic watering systems, and other caging equipment to support reliable operation. - Ensure daily cleanliness in the cage wash area by cleaning and sanitizing floors, walls, equipment, and other surface