Animal Care Technician

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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 Animal Care Technician to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in Boston, MA.

As the Animal Care Technician, you will perform routine animal husbandry tasks to include the cleaning, feeding, and watering of laboratory animals, the cleaning of cages and related ancillary equipment, and the maintenance of animal care environments within the Charles River Accelerator & Development Labs (CRADL) animal facility.

• Handle, transfer, and deliver animals, supplies (caging, gases, dry ice, liquid nitrogen), and waste as needed to and from work area(s).
• Perform daily cage duties including recycling and scheduled sanitation procedures.
• Monitor daily animal health and welfare while performing daily animal health observations.
• Operate a washer and autoclave machines to sterilize caging equipment and instruments for the animals.
• Maintain documentation for QA including but not limited to temperature strips, room environmental reports and logs, dish washer and/or autoclaving logs.
• Perform animal husbandry duties to maintain quality and health of research animals, to include performing daily water bottle and cage checks; provide appropriate food and water; perform cage changing and/or cage cleaning as required; record animal health concerns per SOP and/or specified protocols.
• Communicate procedural questions and self‑identified training deficiencies to team lead or Facility Supervisor.
• Perform humane euthanasia in accordance with the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
• May monitor client row assignments in shared animal holding room to ensure rack/row is labelled and assigned correctly per facility needs.
• Maintain an organized and clean work environment including but not limited to animal rooms, common areas such as corridors, cage washrooms, procedure rooms, anterooms, storage areas and grounds by cleaning at prescribed intervals following established procedures.

• High school diploma, General Education Degree (G.E.D.) or equivalent required.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) in animal or life sciences field preferred.
• Experience:
  
  Directly related laboratory animal experience in a laboratory animal facility preferred.
• Certification/Licensure:
  Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician (ALAT) certification from AALAS preferred.

$20–$22 USD per hour. Salaries vary within the range based on experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

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…