Aquaculture Specialist - Per Diem
Boston Children's Hospital
- Boston, MA
- Permanent
- Part-time
This Aquaculture Specialist is responsible for:
- Feeding populations of fish the proper type and amount of food, depending on life stage and experimental application.
- Operating sophisticated recirculating aquaculture systems, as well as aquatics tank washers, feeding robots, and integrated electronic water quality monitoring systems, all observing standard operating procedures and safety guidelines.
- Performing and records daily animal health and welfare observations, communicating adverse findings to the ARP manager and Specialist II.
- Performing daily oversight and operation of aquaculture systems and communicates any problems to the ARP Manager or Specialist II.
- Performing various husbandry tasks, including spawning, in-vitro fertilization, and other procedures that involve the handing of fish.
- Maintains live invertebrate cultures for feeding larval fish.
- Performing and records all water quality testing.
- Providing training on some practices and procedures to new employees and scientific staff.
- Monitoring supply needs and orders needed items in timely manner
- High School diploma/GED required
- Work requires the analytical skills to identify highly complex problems requiring the application of clinical, scientific or technical principles, theories and concepts and in-depth, cross-functional experienced-based knowledge.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with people from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds.