Animal Care Technician II

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 looking for an Animal Care Technician II for our Insourcing Solutions Team in Baltimore, MD.

The Animal Care Technician II will provide husbandry and veterinary assistance for laboratory animals including rodents as well as monitor animal health and report findings.

• Perform animal husbandry duties including but not limited to preparation and actual changing of animal cages and related cage accessories of small, feeding and manual watering
• Prepare caging for cagewash, including scraping floor grids, breaking down caging and dumping pans or scraping cages
• Perform daily animal health observations and report any abnormal conditions or behavior of animals to the Immediate Supervisor, Facility Manager, Veterinary Technician, and/or Clinical Veterinarian
• Clean assigned animal rooms, facility and animal care equipment and associated animal facility areas
• Monitor and report any irregularities in the room temperature, light cycles, air changes, and other environmental conditions that may affect animals
• Ensure all logbooks, checklists and other records are completed accurately in a timely fashion
• Provide environmental enrichment feed and other enrichment stimuli and/ or provide behavioral assessments
• Provide lead role on assigned weekends/holidays
• Perform euthanasia using correct procedures

• High school diploma or GED
• 2
  -3 years related experience in animal care with at least one year of that time working with laboratory animal species, most applicable rodents and non-human primates preferred
• ALAT certification at hire preferred or ALAT within one year of hire required

The hourly rate for this position is $21.06/hour. The schedule is Monday through Friday 7AM-3:30PM, must be available some weekends and holidays when needed.

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…