Archives Associate 1

Archives Associate 1 Req ID #:  83856 Location: 

Horsham, PA, US, 19044 For 70 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 BASIC SUMMARY:

Responsible for assembling, placement and retrieval of archived material in a secure and controlled access archive.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Perform and coordinate transfer of materials, as assigned.

• Place and retrieve archived material in a secure and controlled access archives.

• Organize, file and retrieve study and ancillary facility records.

• Evaluate and procure archive supplies.

• Verify and inventory wet tissues, blocks, tissue slides and blood slides.

• Check-in/check-out materials from the archives.

• Assemble study materials as specified in the SOP for archiving; paginate and bind scientific data for archival storage.

• Contact clients for disposition (renewal), as assigned.

• Prepare archived materials for shipment, as assigned.

• Perform and coordinate destruction of materials, as assigned.

• Computer entry of study records into the archive database.

• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Conform to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Good Laboratory Practice Regulations (GLP). Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

•    Education:  High school diploma or General Education Degree (G.E.D.).  Associate’s degree (A.A./A.S.) or equivalent desired in business or administrative assistant discipline.

•    Experience:  1-2 years of office experience or administrative/secretarial training required.

•    An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.

•    Licensure:  None.

•    Other:  Basic computer skills with departmental databases (Access, Approach), word processing (Word), and spreadsheet programs (Excel).  Must be organized, have attention to detail and possess good problem-solving skills. PHYSICAL DEMANDS  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

•    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, reach with arms and hands, and type at a computer.

•    Occasionally carry, lift, and move 20 lb. boxes from shelf to shelf. 

•    Must be able to occasionally lift 20 lb. boxes onto and down from 5 foot high shelves and up and down stairs.  

•    Sits for up 60% of the workday.

•    Occasionally stoop, kneel, or crouch.

•    Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

•    General office working conditions; the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

•    Frequently enters the outside weather conditions to enter additional archive locations.

About Safety Assessment

Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market.  Each year approximately 120 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.

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 13,000 employees within 80 facilities in 23 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 80% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2017.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disabled/Vet

Nearest Major Market: Philadelphia

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