Animal Surgical Technician

Day Shift | Offers Benefits | Excellent Career Growth

Responsibilities:

• Perform duties related to the maintenance of experimental animals, such as feeding, caring for animals, cleaning cages, holding animals for treatment, and maintaining inventory and animal identification records.
• Perform cleaning and sanitation of the animal facility and equipment.
• Ensure biosafety and biosecurity of the animals.
• Partner with preclinical investigators to assist and support veterinarians with surgery, dosing, post-operative care, and monitoring of animal studies.
• Provide technical support in areas such as production operations, maintenance, safety testing, process improvement, or product development.
• Use schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions, or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment, or systems.
• Gather, maintain, format, compile, and manipulate technical data using established formulae and procedures, and perform detailed mathematical calculations.
• Suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.
• Work as a seasoned individual contributor under limited supervision, providing assistance and training to lower-level employees.
• Run minor projects, including performing tests, interpreting data, and developing reports.
• Perform technical activities requiring considerable judgment and may have ownership of minor projects.
• Independently propose solutions to problems for supervisor review.
• Communicate typically with internal contacts to obtain and provide technical information on matters of moderate importance.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within the job area.

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• 3 years of surgical experience
• Certified Vet Tech or research experience in a surgery tech capacity
• 1 years of previous anesthesia experience

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $28.00 - $30.50/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Minneapolis,MN.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 6, 2025.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

Salary : $28 - $31