Associate Lead Animal Care Technician

Req ID #: 222821

Location:

San Diego, CA, US, 92121

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**

In the **Associate Lead Animal Care Technician** role, you will use existing SOPs and quality assurance standards to perform the following tasks:

Point of Contact for all schedule changes for CRL staff

Understands cage counts, census, and metrics for allocating work to technicians

Assist with compliance rounds, including weekly walk-throughs, assigning tasks to be addressed, follow-up on completion, and trending for management team

Assist with leading, organizing, implementing husbandry, cage wash, and animal receiving tasks; Assist in the scheduling of Microbial testing and Water Quality testing

Schedule and oversee breeding protocols and program activities; production levels, determine culls, assigning animals to study, updating IACUC protocols

Perform mating, weans, various neonate identifications and any activity assigned to breeding projects

Provide health monitoring and disease model scoring

Order facility supplies including feed / bedding and consumables

Assist with restraint, handling and manipulation of various animal species as assigned

Assist in providing leadership and guidance to the husbandry staff on operations and facility issues. Specific responsibilities include investigating operational issues, including gathering information and details, compiling the information, and submitting/presenting it along with recommendation(s) for resolution of the situation/issue to the Operations manager. Provide training to new hires in the duties and responsibilities of animal care and facility operations.

**Job Qualifications**

A candidate that possesses a Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in Animal Science or related discipline preferred; has a minimum three years' related experience working in a laboratory animal facility with rodents; familiarity with the workings and supplies used in a lab animal facility.An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above. AALAS certification at the Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician (ALAT) level required.

The pay range for this position is $29 to $31.78 USD per hour. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

**About Insourcing Solutions**

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.

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.

**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.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to [email protected] . This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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