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Animal Technician/Senior Animal Technician
Charles River Laboratories International Inc (CRL)
Portishead, GB, BS20 7AW
For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
Do you have expertise in carrying out in vivo techniques across areas such as immune oncology and infection?
Would you like to apply your expertise to provide state of the art cell biology and pharmacology support to a range of global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
Have you got the desire to improve health and lives?
Charles River Discovery are excited to be recruiting for an Animal Technician/Senior Animal Technician to join our Portishead, Bristol site on a permanent basis. The Animal Technician/Senior Animal Technician will be an integral part of a dynamic and flexible team that conducts a wide range of in vivo efficacy testing models as well as developing new in vivo models. This is an exciting time to join our team as we are expanding on our offering of disease models. Training will be available on site, as required. This role is site based and candidates will need to be able to travel to our Portishead site daily.
What you’ll be doing: • Providing a high level of animal care at all times, ensuring that the animal's welfare is a priority throughout the process. • Administering drugs (through a variety of routes) and blood sampling with due care and attention. • Performing other techniques as needed, again, in adherence to the strictest regulations. Training will be available on other techniques. • Maintaining highly accurate records at all times, escalating any problems to the appropriate team member. • Work closely with other Technicians and Scientists' on projects to ensure models are viable. • Adhere to all health and safety protocols appropriately and to report any quality issues immediately.
What We Offer You:
• A very comprehensive benefits package from day one, including a large pension contribution, private medical for you (and can add family members), private dental care, critical illness cover, bonus and more! • Access to great discounts via our CREDS discount scheme. • Global opportunities and strong career progression. • The chance to work on several varied projects and liaise globally and nationally with other business areas. • To be able make a difference to health and wellbeing of people. • To continue your own career growth. • Parental leave. • Group Life Assurance and Group Income Protection. • Remote GP access 24/7. • Well-being support and initiatives. • Cycle to work scheme.
Skills and Experience: • Relevant Qualification in Animal Welfare or similar • Holder of Home Office License; with experience of working with rodents or small animals preferred • Proven husbandry experience, able to care for and handle animals under SPF conditions • Strong attention to detail with excellent communication skills • Passion for animal welfare with a desire to maintain and enforce high standards at all times. • Excellent time management skills, able to prioritise tasks as needed and work closely with management to ensure proper care is always delivered to all models onsite.
About Discovery Discovery from Charles River is industry-proven in the successful development of novel therapies, with over 350 patents and 80 preclinical drug candidates delivered to our sponsors in the past 17 years. Backed by more than 650 scientists, our comprehensive, integrated portfolio employs the latest technology and platforms to provide chemistry, biology, and pharmacology services that support clients from the earliest stages of hit identification all the way through to IND. Our client-focused, collaborative approach creates true partnerships that anticipate challenges, overcome obstacles, and move us forward together on the journey of getting new drugs to market.
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.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.
At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
Job posted: 2024-03-07
