Facility Floor Lead

Job Summary

We are looking for an Facility Floor Supervisor to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in San Diego, CA.

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 Facility Floor Supervisor role, you can do that by overseeing and directing the activities of provider staff and collaborating with the client and staff to maintain operational performance levels.

Why work at Charles River?  We offer an excellent onboarding program for our new employees, internal career development, and competitive benefits!  

What you will do! In the Facility Floor Supervisor role, you will manage direct reports in their efforts to maintain client objectives with respect to animal health and welfare, facilities condition, sanitation levels and facility security.  You will generate work orders and ensure documentation of all corrective maintenance and preventative maintenance procedures and follow up to ensure timely resolution to issues and provide updates to management when resolved. Provide timely, concise and effective communication regarding all facility utilities, infrastructure, process equipment, and supply chain and housing system issues to Management and coordinate the movement of animals throughout the facility and assign housing locations for receipt of new animals.  Ensure staff properly maintain inventory levels, sanitation of equipment/facilities and that proper levels of animal care and feeding are consistent. You will assist veterinary staff in the documentation and triage of all animal health cases and communicate with veterinary staff and other vivarium personnel on the health and well-being of all research animals.

In partnership with HR, conduct interviews, assist in recruitment efforts, investigate personnel issues, and respond to employees per company policies. You will participate in meetings with Operations to keep them informed of current/future projects; monitor and document task completion/deviations from defined KPI's to submit monthly to upper management in support of contract deliverables. Providing backup support to include husbandry, dosing, injections, and collections will be necessary on an as needed basis. The AFS will identify staff training needs and ensure necessary training is conducted, as well as conduct and participate in train the trainer sessions.

In addition, the AFS will oversee adherence to all site operational procedures and all required documentation related to the department as well as supervise record maintenance and generate and submit internal and external reports in the required formats and timeframes and report to management on operations related issues.

Job Qualifications

Who are we looking for? A candidate that possesses a HS diploma or GED is required; Bachelor of Science in Animal Science or related field preferred, Minimum three (3) to five (5) years in a laboratory animal facility of which no less than one (1) years is supervisory or management experience. AALAS certification at the Laboratory Animal Technician level (LAT) or higher preferred.  One year of computer experience with MSWord, PowerPoint and Excel programs and administrative experience in support of site operations required.  

If you are interested in contributing to the well-being of our communities, not only across the country but around the world, please join us and BE THE DIFFERENCE!

The pay range for this position is $85-87K annually. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

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