Animal Husbandry Services Manager

Description

Manages the administrative and operational activities of a comprehensive animal husbandry program that provides services to faculty and staff engaged in animal research. Develops and implements long-range plans and formulate budget proposals for animal facility renovation and construction, and purchase of major equipment, ensuring optimum resource utilization for space, equipment, and supplies. Coordinates animal facility renovation and construction projects with Plant Operations and outside contractors to ensure that University and Federal standards of animal housing are achieved. A Bachelor's degree in the biological sciences or related field is required. AALAS certification at the Technologist level or equivalent in experience is required. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.