Insights Manager

Position: Secret Cleared Lab/Research Tech

Location: Aberdeen, MD

Length: 6 month contract to hire

Rate: $25-$30/hr

(Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education)

Insight Global is seeking a Laboratory/Research Technician specializing in animal research to support the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD). The Research Technician will complete various tasks supporting research with approximately 50 non-human primates (NHPs) under active protocols.

Position Responsibilities:

• Conduct animal movement, transportation, feeding, behavioral training, surgery, surgical support, veterinary technical support, bio-sampling (blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, etc.), and all experimentation.
• Draft reports, figures, and slide summaries of experimental methods and results, and other written work, as needed.
• Maintain specialized laboratory equipment, such as experimental and behavioral equipment, outside of traditional medical maintenance services. This includes proper care and calibration of experimental and behavioral materials, cleaning routine experimental equipment, verifying functionality of experimental equipment, calibrating scales.
• Create graphical and textual descriptions of experimental outcomes and assist with implementation of new technologies within the laboratory relevant to the research areas of interest.
• Conduct biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and behavioral components of experimental investigations in collaboration with the PI. The experiments will determine the effects of threats/hazards and be capable of testing medical interventions in several species.
• Compile and analyze experimental data with custom-written software and with commercially available spreadsheet, graphics, and statistical analysis programs.
• Aseptic maintenance of surgically placed vascular access ports in NHPs; and perform daily flush and visual inspection of central lines for proper placement, signs of distress and infection IAW USAMRICD SOP and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines.
• Perform or assist USAMRICD personnel with surgical procedures on NHP.
• Perform necropsy and harvest tissue from deceased experimental animals and properly dispose of animal carcasses.
• Perform solubility studies of various threat agents and therapeutic compounds of interest; assess animal health and behavior for safety and efficacy of novel candidate therapeutic compounds following administration by intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intravenous routes; record findings in laboratory notebooks during or immediately following the experiments.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor Degree from an accredited university/college in Biological sciences or similar field.

Minimum Experience/ Training Requirements:

• Knowledge of pharmacology and neuroscience as applied to medical defense research
• Experience working in a research laboratory
• Experience executing animal use protocols.
• Experience handling NHPs preferred, or 1+ years in animal or husbandry research
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent adaptability to new research team/project assignment per organizational needs
• Direct experience conducting operant in vivo behavioral training/testing

Background/Security:

• An active DoD Interim SECRET Security Clearance is required

Compensation:

$25-$30/hr

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Benefit packages for this role include: Benefit packages for this role may include healthcare insurance offerings and paid leave as provided by applicable law.