Associate Operations Specialist

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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
Associate Operations Specialist
for our Insourcing Solutions Department to provide continuing support services to our Charles River clients throughout the Seattle areawhere you will be assigned to various sites based upon need.

The AOShome base is our CRADL Facility in Seattle.

The AOS will provide support in the following areas: animal care, technical, training to include:

• Monitor animal health and welfare
• Perform daily animal health observations and animal husbandry duties: daily equipment checks; providing appropriate food and water; performing cage changing and/or cage cleaning; recording animal health concerns
• Provide environmental enrichment appropriate to species
• May be tasked to assist with breeding and weaning procedures
• May be tasked to assist with administrative needs including cage card management, data entry and review, manage census data.
• Provide client support and handle inquiries on separations and transfers
• Provide instruction toothers on husbandry and technical procedures.
• Attend and participate in on-the-job and classroom training sessions
• Act as subject matter expert in all animal husbandry and routine technical skills
• Perform trainingofstaffon husbandry
• May perform technical training of surgical techniques: intravenous or intradermal dose administration, manage breeding operations, perform comprehensive necropsy and tissue collection, perform routine assays or laboratory support.
• Perform surgical preparation, anesthesia administration and monitoring and post-surgical observations and associated record keeping

The following are minimum qualifications related to the Associate Operations Specialist
position:

• Education:High school diploma or General Education Degree (G.E.D.). Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Animal Science, Life Sciences or related discipline preferred.
• Experience:Two plus years of animal care, handling and technical experience within a research laboratory program
• Certification/Licensure: AALAS certification at the LAT; LATG, CVT, LVT, RVT certification preferred

The hourly range for this position is $27-$29/hour. The schedule is Tuesday through Saturday 7AM-3:30PM

About Insourcing Solutions
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.

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…