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- Operates and maintains equipment and supplies.
- Oversees all aspects of husbandry support, to include related paperwork, cage change scheduling, and supplies.
- Actively interacts with Project Officers, facility veterinarian(s) and investigators to solve customer requests, inquiries, and complaints.
- Ensure that all work is performed according to the task Statement of Work.
- Participates in interviewing applicants for open positions, developing performance improvement plans, and writing employee performance evaluations.
- Assist in assessing, developing, and presenting training for staff and investigators.
- Performs daily clinical observations, preliminary health exam of sick animals prior to reporting to the Clinical Veterinarian.
- Oversees the animal surveillance program related to the husbandry staff.
- Occasionally provides technical support (e.g., restraining animals, collecting blood, collecting tissues, performing injections, treatments, surgical preparation, assisting with research procedures).
- Occasionally provides animal husbandry and environmental enrichment for colony animals.
- Provides quality assurance to include animal health surveillance, monitoring of the effectiveness of facility sanitation, cage washing and autoclaving procedures, monitoring of incoming animal shipments for container integrity and animal health, monitor the HVAC, internal facility reports for monitoring deviations from pre-established parameters, other quality assurance services.
- Provides data entry/data base report generation for computerized systems which monitor facility internal environmental parameters, security, or other animal facility monitoring and management requirements.
- Prepares and submits written records, charts, logs, and inventories.
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: Washington DC
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