Aquaculture Research Technician

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**The opportunity**:

- **Bring your passion & experience working with aquatic animals into a varied role**:

- **Play a key role managing daily animal husbandry activities to support research projects**:

- **Grow your career with our supportive team at CSIRO - Australia's National Science Agency**

We are currently seeking a motivated Aquaculture Research Technician, with an interest in genome engineering and working with a diverse research team, to join our Hobart team

CSIRO's Aquaculture Precision Genome Engineering (PGE) team focuses on developing advanced genetic technologies to improve aquaculture traits and sustainability. It aims to address challenges in aquaculture by improving disease resistance, thermal resilience, and overall productivity of farmed fish. Our talented research team has made significant progress in this area of research and is currently routinely generating fish that have been gene edited for several different traits. Therefore, the Hobart laboratory holds gene edited fish at different life stages, which require daily monitoring and husbandry activities.

Joining this dynamic team in a lab-based role, you will bring your previous experience working in aquaculture to work collaboratively with the research scientists and take responsibility for performing all day-to-day animal husbandry activities, including feeding, larval rearing, system maintenance, water quality measurements and record keeping. You will also require strong knowledge and experience constructing and maintaining freshwater & saltwater recirculating aquarium systems, as well as the ability to interpret and implement necessary regulations. These daily, routine activities are crucial in ensuring that our research projects progress and deliver impact, and therefore, you will play a key role in assisting our projects. Due to the nature of this position, you would generally have set hours, and it is generally expected that you would work 3 full-days during the week and be available for half-days on both Saturdays and Sundays, for at least 3 weekends per month.

If you are an early-career animal technician who enjoys working in aquatic settings, interested in building your career with a reputed R&D organisation, and have a positive attitude towards working in a multi-disciplinary team, we would love to hear from you

**Your duties will include**:

- Performing all aspects of day-to-day fish husbandry and recirculating aquaculture system maintenance, including feeding, larval rearing, cleaning systems, water quality measurements and record keeping.
- Maintaining experimental conditions as per protocols, monitoring fish welfare and ensuring they are maintained as per animal ethics approvals.
- Undertaking general laboratory tasks, which may include having responsibility for maintaining/stocking laboratory consumables, inventory management and instrument scheduling.
- Being responsible for the construction and maintenance of aquarium systems.
- Assisting in planning and conducting experiments,
- Accurately observing, measuring and record scientific measurements, including data entry and basic data summaries.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary research team, to carry out tasks under limited direction in support of scientific research, and assisting other staff to complete allocated tasks and activities, as required.
- Being available for occasional intra
- or inter
- state travel to support project activities as required.

**Location**: Hobart, TAS

**Salary**: AU$70K - AU$90K pa (pro-rata for part-time) + up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**: Specified Term of 18 months; Part-time 0.8 FTE (including half-days on Saturdays and Sundays)

**Reference**: 97760

**To be considered you will need**:

- Previous experience working in aquatic animal rearing (either commercial or research setting), with demonstrated knowledge and experience of aquatic animal husbandry activities.
- Demonstrated experience in construction & maintenance of aquarium systems, including connecting pipes, managing water quality, and knowledge of the principles of recirculating aquaculture system operation.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and computer skills including data entry and record keeping.
- Demonstrated strong focus on safety, and ability to closely follow processes and procedures, including working-alone practices.
- Ability to communicate effectively via different mediums in a team environment.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as working effectively as part of a multi-