Technical Supervisor; DNR

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.

We are seeking an experienced Technical Supervisor to join our Insourcing Solutions Team located in Bethesda, MD
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As the Technical Supervisor, you will provide oversight and leadership to the LATs and Breeder Technicians. A key duty of this position is scheduling and assigning technical service requests.

• Addressing customer requests, inquiries, and concerns.
• Performing quality assurance of animal health records and logs, and procedure rooms.
• Assessing staff performance and assisting with technical training needs.
• Providing animal treatments and assisting with rodent colony health surveillance program and submission.
• Assisting with covering technical support and duties to include animal handling and restraint, weaning, tail snips, ear tagging, collect blood/tissue samples, perform injections, irradiations, treatments, surgical preparation and post‑operative observations, timed mating, microinjections, and assisting with research procedures as directed.
• Familiarity with and ability to apply/use various forms of anesthesia.
• Attending pre‑study meetings and providing insight to relatable researcher support and needs.
• Maintaining and archiving various logs.
• Assisting with coverage of other areas of facility as needed.

The following are minimum requirements for the Technical Supervisor:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• At least 3 years related to animal care and handling experience performing laboratory animal technician duties, with at least 1 year in a supervisory/leadership capacity.
• Laboratory Animal Technician (LAT) certification required.

The pay range for this position is $34 to $37 USD per hour. The schedule is Monday through Friday 7AM-3:30PM, must be available to work some holidays and weekends when necessary.

Charles River Insourcing Solutions can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic in sourcing 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.

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 worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and…