Job Description
Division
Medical Entomology
Main purpose of the job
- To support the SIT project through the management of the mosquito colonies in the mass rearing facility and associated satellite insectaries
Location
- NICD, Sandringham
Key performance areas
- Maintain mosquito colonies according to standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Monitor the correct temperature and relative humidity in the insectary according to standards operating procedures (SOPs)
- Identify problems that affect mosquito colony maintenance
- Report any challenges encountered in the mass rearing facility immediately to the production and Facility Manager
- Identify faulty equipment (larval rearing system, lightning system, HVAC system etc.)
- Ensure general tidiness/cleanliness in the mass rearing facility
- Ensure ants and other crawling, walking, flying or resting insects or spider...