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Role highlights

- Lead high-quality animal care and technical support for nationally significant research
- Build distinctive experience across animal studies and PC1–PC4 containment environments
- Join ACDP during major investment in modern facilities and animal research capability, several roles availavle

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Why join ACDP?

CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness ( ACDP ) in Geelong is a nationally significant high-containment facility protecting Australia from serious and emerging animal and zoonotic disease threats. Our teams work across research, surveillance, diagnostics and emergency response, helping safeguard Australia’s animal industries, environment and communities.

This is a pivotal time to join ACDP. A major Part-Life Refit is modernising laboratories, infrastructure and animal research capability to support the Centre’s critical work for decades to come at the Geelong site. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to science with genuine national impact—helping Australia anticipate, detect and respond to reliable biosecurity threats such as lumpy skin disease, African swine fever and avian influenza.



Whether your role supports research, diagnostics, surveillance, animal care, laboratory operations or critical infrastructure, your work can strengthen Australia’s preparedness, protect animal health and industries, and help reduce risks to the environment and community. You’ll also build distinctive experience in a complex, highly regulated environment unlike conventional veterinary, animal‑care or laboratory practice.

The role:

As a Senior Animal Technician, you’ll provide high-quality animal care and senior technical support across the lifecycle of research studies. Working with scientists, veterinarians and animal facility colleagues, you’ll contribute to study planning, husbandry, monitoring, biological sampling, animal welfare, data collection and maintaining accurate records. You may work across ACDP’s animal facilities and PC1–PC4 containment environments, while providing practical guidance and on-the-job training to technicians and facility users.

Animal research at ACDP takes place within rigorous animal ethics, biosecurity, safety and regulatory frameworks. Depending on the role, you may support animals throughout the research lifecycle, including infectious disease research.



Candidates must be comfortable working in an environment where animals may not be able to leave the facility and where humane euthanasia may form part of approved research or biosecurity requirements.

Where you will make an impact:

- Plan and deliver animal husbandry, handling, monitoring, identification, biological sampling and other approved technical procedures.
- Provide senior technical support, guidance and on-the-job training to animal technicians and facility users.
- Work with scientists and veterinarians to support study planning, delivery and Animal Ethics Committee applications.
- Maintain high standards of animal welfare, biosecurity, facility operations, documentation and quality compliance.
- Resolve day-to-day operational issues and contribute to continuous improvement in animal care, monitoring and facility practices.
- Participate in weekend rosters and, when required, after-hours or on-call work.

A few important details:

- Location: Geelong, Victoria - Wadawurrung Country
- Salary: $100k - $113k plus 15.4% superannuation
- Tenure & work schedule: Indefinite, full-time preferred. Role is predominantly site-based
- Applications are open to Australian Citizens only.
- Appointment is subject to obtaining or holding an Australian Government Negative Vetting 1 security clearance and providing a national police check. Other security, medical or character requirements may also apply
- Job Reference Number: 104421

What you will bring:

We’re looking for people who combine a genuine commitment to animal welfare with strong procedural discipline, sound judgement and accountability. You’ll work calmly and constructively across disciplines, follow detailed procedures consistently, speak up when something isn’t right and adapt to a highly regulated

📌 Senior Animal Technicians (Geelong)
🏢 CSIRO
📍 Geelong