Animal Care Technician I

Charles River Laboratories; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 23,014 - 32,778; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentives based on performance

401K

Paid time off

Stock purchase program

Health and wellness coverage

Employee and family wellbeing support

Work life balance flexibility

Job summary

Charles River Insourcing Solutions in Chicago, IL seeks an Animal Care Technician I to perform daily health observations and animal husbandry duties to support research animals.

The role includes maintaining records, assisting with handling and breeding processes, and ensuring clean, compliant housing and facilities. An Associate or Bachelor degree with animal experience, and ALAT eligibility are required or preferred.

Qualifications

• Associates degree and 6 months of animal handling, care, and husbandry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in biology or animal science or related field with zero experience in animal handling.
• Achieving ALAT certification upon eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate records of animal breeding and housing or support areas, including incoming animals.
• Assist with restraint, handling, and manipulation of animal species, including breeding and weaning procedures.
• Monitor personnel or equipment entry into rooms, operate required equipment, and perform general housekeeping.

Skills

Animal handling

Education

Associates degree in biology or related field

Bachelor’s degree in biology or animal science or related field

ALAT certification

Job description

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking an Animal Care Technician I for our Insourcing Solutions site in Chicago, IL

In the Animal Care Technician role, you will perform daily animal health observations, as well as animal husbandry duties to include water bottle/line and cage checks, provide food/water, and perform cage changes and/or clean cages all to maintain the quality and healthy of research animals.

Additional Responsibilities Include

• Maintain accurate records of things like animal breeding, as well as housing or support areas, and you may also be tasked with receiving, inspection, and housing of incoming animals.
• Assist with restraint, handling, and manipulation of animal species, and you may become involved in the animal breeding and weaning procedures.
• Other duties may include monitoring personnel and equipment entry into various rooms, operating required equipment and general housekeeping, when required.

Job Qualifications

• Associates degree and 6 months of animal handling, care, and husbandry experience.
• Or Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) in biology or animal science or related field and zero experience in animal handling, husbandry experience.
• Achieving ALAT certification upon eligibility.

Pay range

The pay range for this position is $20.25 per hour.

About Insourcing Solutions

Charles River Insourcing Solutions can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic insourcing 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 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‑wellness of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

Benefits

• bonus/incentives based on performance
• 401K
• paid time off
• stock purchase program
• Health and wellness coverage
• employee and family wellbeing support programs
• work life balance flexibility

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, family status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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