# Technical Officer

**Company**: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
**Location**: Clear Water Bay
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: highly negotiable
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Officer to support laboratory animal care and research experiments in the Division of Life Science at HKUST.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Performing daily animal health observations and animal husbandry duties to maintain quality and health of research animals, recording and reporting animal health concerns

- Identifying clinical signs and making treatment recommendations

- Supervising junior staff on supporting duties and animal husbandry

- Assisting research staff and students to perform animal experiments and breeding

- Preparing import documentation for mice to be delivered overseas and arranging imported animals, quarantine, and sample collection for disease screening

- Collecting facility environmental samples and conducting quality control laboratory tests

- Assisting orientation and hands-on training to new scientists and junior staff

- Performing genotyping and breeding of transgenic colonies for experiments

- Performing other duties as assigned and reporting to immediate supervisor on a bi-weekly basis

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Animal Science or a related biological science discipline

- Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in animal husbandry, including breed planning skills

- Experience handling transgenic mouse colonies is a distinct advantage

What we offer:

- Starting salary commensurate with qualifications and experience

- Comprehensive fringe benefits, including annual leave, medical, and dental coverage

- Gratuity arrangement

## Skills

### Required
- Animal Science
- animal husbandry
- breed planning
- transgenic mouse colonies

### Nice to have
- Experience handling transgenic mouse colonies

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