animal care technician Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
We are looking for a Team Lead (Lab Animal) to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in Cambridge, MA.
How will you have an impact?
This is the moment to use your talents and imagine those talents contributing to improving global health and peoples’ lives. In the Team Lead role, you can do that by providing oversight and support to the animal care technicians and program to ensure the health and well-being of all the animal species, as well as the integrity of the research.
Why work at Charles River?
We offer an excellent onboarding program for our new employees, internal career development, competitive benefits.
What you will do!
In this role, you will provide oversight and support to the program by assisting the facility manager with creating the daily husbandry schedule, overseeing cagewash operations, conducting room inspections to assess animal health and cage environment, as well as record keeping. In addition, you will provide leadership and guidance to the husbandry staff on operations and facility issues to include investigating operational issues, gathering/compiling information, and submitting it along with recommendations for resolution to the FM. You will provide training to new hires as it relates to animal care and facility operations; oversee and deliver on complex husbandry for models that need additional clinical observations, special care and attention.
You will monitor daily animal health and do observations daily; perform animal husbandry duties to maintain quality and health of the research animals; record animal health concerns per protocol and maintain records of animal breeding, health, and housing/isolator or support areas. In addition, assist with restraint, handling and manipulation of various animal species as assigned, as well as simple veterinary care and treatments. The Team Lead will provide technical support to include rodent euthanasia, ear tagging, anesthesia via isoflurane, micro-chipping; in addition, review animal procurement records/reports for proper caging/housing assignments, diets, cage card documentation and animal identification. You will be tasked with receiving, inspecting, and putting away incoming animals and ensuring each housing area has sentinel animals. Working knowledge of strain nomenclature and genetics is needed.
In this role, you will also be asked to provide quality assurance to include animal health surveillance, monitoring of the effectiveness of facility sanitation, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), as well as internal facility reports for monitoring deviations from pre-established parameters.
A candidate that possesses a high school diploma or GED is required, (a B.S. in either animal science or similar discipline preferred); has a minimum 3 years’ related animal care and handling experience in combination with facility and equipment knowledge. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for what is listed. LAT or higher preferred; LATg eligibility required.
The pay range for this position is $30-32 USD an hour. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
Charles River Insourcing Solutions℠ can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic insourcing of GMP, GLP and non-GLP research services from discovery through safety assessment. Insourcing Solutions℠ provides you with the ability to maintain control of your facility and expertise while leveraging available space.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status.
Nearest Major Market: Cambridge
Nearest Secondary Market: Boston
Job Segment: Animal Health, Pharmaceutical, Quality Assurance, Laboratory, Veterinary, Science, Technology, Research
