Technical employee position in the field of agricultural animal research

YOUR TASKS

Your job profile includes routine tasks (e.g. feeding, cleaning animal stalls, care) as well as responsible activities such as assisting with laboratory animal technology, monitoring the behavior and health of laboratory animals, collecting scientific experimental data e.g. in behavioral studies and caring for animals in the context of animal experimental research projects.

YOUR PROFILE

• Training as a medical technical assistant/medical technical assistant/animal caretaker/animal keeper or similar
• Experience in handling pigs or other farm animals, ideally within the context of animal experiments, as well as the willingness to work weekend shifts.
• Willingness to perform independent work, particularly in the area of ​​continuous development of our laboratory animal technology
• Organizational and manual skills

WHAT SETS US APART

The University of Hohenheim promotes equal opportunities and diversity. Your knowledge, skills, and strengths are important to us, regardless of age, gender, origin, or religion. People with disabilities and those with equivalent status are especially encouraged to apply and will be given preferential consideration if their qualifications are essentially equal.

On a uniquely beautiful campus, the University of Hohenheim, a profile university, unites the three faculties of Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Economics and Social Sciences, with approximately 9,000 students enrolled. Our green campus, with its short distances between buildings, fosters collaboration and creates a vibrant and inspiring environment for research, teaching, and work for our roughly 2,000 employees. We are shaping a sustainable future and developing solutions for the societal challenges of our time. Here, ambitious minds find a community in which they can grow and reach their full potential.

• Top 10 most attractive employers in the region
• A vibrant and innovative working environment on a green campus with short distances.
• Secure job & excellent work-life balance
• Flexible working hours & mobile working
• Diverse training and further education opportunities & modern personnel and organizational development 
• Job ticket & JobBike, cafeteria, health promotion & university sports

Application deadline: June 30, 2026

Please include the following documents with your application:

Please send your application with the usual documents to: Prof. Dr. Volker Stefanski, Institute of Animal Science (460), Department of Behavioral Physiology of Farm Animals (460f), Garbenstr. 17, 70599 Stuttgart, E-mail: verhaltensphysiologie@uni-hohenheim.de, Tel.: 0711 459 22455.