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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
In order to qualify, you must have:
- 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 indepth, crossfunctional experiencedbased knowledge.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with people from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds.
Boston Children's Hospital requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Flu, (unless you are eligible for a medical or religious exemption).
Boston Children's Hospital is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.