Animal Care Technician

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 I to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in South San Francisco, CA
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As the Animal Care Technician I, you will observe, monitor, and document the health and physical environment within the Charles River Accelerator & Development Labs (CRADL) animal facility. Perform routine husbandry tasks such as feeding, watering, cage changing, and cleaning of equipment and rooms to maintain a safe and compliant environment. Support animal health and welfare by accurately reporting concerns and collaborating with veterinary staff, ensuring all work aligns with institutional, state and federal guidelines.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Operate a washer for cleaning and sanitizing animal cage supplies through automatic processes.
• Operate autoclave machine to sterilize caging equipment and instruments for the animals.
• Maintain documentation for QA including temperature strips, room environmental reports and logs, dishwasher and/or autoclaving logs.
• 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.

• Review and comprehend relevant SOPs, BOPs, and quality standards at the entry level, applying them to routine animal care and facility tasks under supervision. Demonstrate basic understanding and consistency in following written procedures.
• Monitor daily animal health and welfare while performing daily animal health observations.
• Perform animal husbandry duties to maintain quality and health of research animals, including 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.
• Dispose of biological, hazardous, and animal facility waste following established procedures.
• Operate equipment and use supplies according to safety guidelines; perform general housekeeping (e.g., check pest traps, common area cleaning, testing eye wash stations and emergency showers) and adhere to safety procedures.
• Assist with receiving and housing incoming animals under supervision based on site needs.
• Cage card distribution including printing cage cards for incoming shipments and requests from clients.
• Collect census data from animal cages and assist with uploading manual or handheld scanner data into approved software.
• Assist with monitoring client row assignments in shared animal holding rooms to ensure racks/rows are labeled and assigned correctly per facility needs.
• Report non‑compliance or animal welfare concerns to the appropriate Animal Welfare Team member or IACUC office.
• Maintain an organized and clean work environment including animal rooms, common areas, cage washrooms, procedure rooms, anterooms, storage areas and grounds by cleaning at prescribed intervals following established procedures.

• Attend and participate in on‑the‑job and classroom training sessions and complete all assigned computer‑based safety and professional development training by predetermined due dates.
• Communicate procedural questions and self‑identified training deficiencies to team lead or supervisor.
• Maintain required attendance level and adherence to work schedule in accordance with required staffing levels in order to ensure that assigned duties are completed.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Applies knowledge of individual facility SOPs to ensure that they are being properly followed.
• Ability to learn and understand the basic animal…