Animal Care Facilities Specialist Technician

Description:

About us:
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential. 

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:
Under the general direction of the UTM Veterinary Director and working closely with the Animal Care Facilities (ACF) Supervisor, the Animal Care Facilities Specialist Technician provides advanced animal and research technical service primarily in support of the establishment of a newly built animal facility. The individual will coordinate the population and functional implementation of the new animal facility. Responsibilities will include relocation, decontamination, and decantation of all equipment into the new facility and oversight of the daily operations within the new facility. Additional responsibilities include helping create and implement standard processes for the new ACF facility. Additional responsibilities may include training ACF and lab staff and students on various animal research techniques, the use of equipment, disinfection practices, and animal care. The incumbent is additionally responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the New Science Building (NSB) ACF and related administrative duties, such as writing/editing standard operation procedures, animal imports/exports and sampling processing. The individual will also provide on-call support for the NSB Animal Care Facilities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing day-to-day operational needs for one or more labs/workshops
• Performing lab experiments that requires great precision and attention to many details
• Modifying experimental processes and implementing more efficient ways to conduct experiments
• Providing safety training and ensuring compliance to lab safety procedures and standards
• Ordering supplies within established limits
• Serving as a technical resource on laboratory protocols, and experimental procedures and equipment

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience (e.g., graduate of a veterinary technology program (ex. RVT, RLAT, RMLAT)
• Minimum three years of recent and related experience providing administration and technical assistance in a vivarium, including animal care practices and regulatory oversight.
• Experience with a multitude of species (specifically, mice) and a diverse range of research projects/working environments.
• Strong knowledge of vivarium operations (functions, equipment, redundancy, emergency procedures) and processes including the procurement of animals and equipment.
• Experience meeting animal facility and laboratory spaces compliance with regulatory standards (University, CCAC, OMAFRA, biosafety, etc).
• Experience working with vivarium and lab equipment including biological safety cabinets, autoclaves, fume hoods, stereotaxic apparatuses, microscopes, dissecting, etc.
• Strong working knowledge of biosafety standards, animal use protocols, and WHMIS.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suites (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work well in a busy team-based environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience managing rodent breeding colonies.
• Leadership experience.
• Experience teaching and training in a research environment.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Meticulous
• Multi-tasker
• Proactive
• Responsible
• Team player

Please note that one (1) position is available for a two-year term.

Closing Date: 09/02/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type : Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 -- $76,577. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $97,928. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching
Recruiter: Desiray Stewart

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

Job descriptions are available upon request for internal applicants.