Study Supervisor - 2nd Shift

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 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.

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SUMMARY:

Supervise in-life technical personnel. Schedule animal rooms and assign technical personnel to studies. Responsible for assisting in the conduct of studies.

The pay range for this position is ($60,000 -$70,000). Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

Working hours for this full-time exempt position are 12:30pm - 9:00pm (2nd Shift).

• Perform required technical in-life functions of assigned studies.
• Attend supervisor meetings, coordinate work responsibilities with other supervisory staff to meet overall company study workload goals.
• Oversee the review and assure GLP compliance of in-life data books and animal husbandry logs.
• Oversee daily operational activities and supervise a group of non-exempt employees. Ensure optimum group performance.
• Responsible for personnel management activities such as: scheduling, personnel actions (hiring, promotions, transfers, etc.), training and development, providing regular direction and feedback on performance, disciplinary actions and preparing and delivering annual performance and salary reviews.
• Recommend short-range operating objectives, organizational structure, staffing requirements and succession plans.
• May assist in development of departmental budget.
• As required, oversee maintenance of group training manual and training records.
• Review documentation of functions performed as part of quality control requirements.
• Support the policy of equal employment opportunity through affirmative action in personnel actions.
• Ensure adherence to pertinent regulatory requirements and to departmental policies, practices and procedures [SOPs, safety procedures and biosafety protocols].
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle common laboratory species and laboratory equipment.
• Regularly reaches with arms and hands.
• Frequently pushes and pulls animal cages weighing 400 pounds (on casters), bending and lifting.
• Stands/walks for 60% of the workday.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly wears protective clothing (scrubs, lab coats, safety glasses, and gloves).
• Occasionally wears a respirator.
• Frequently works with sharp objects (e.g., needles).
• Regularly works with known and unknown toxins and chemicals.
• Regularly works with small- and medium-sized laboratory animals with risk of exposure to allergens.
• The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

• Education:
  
  Associate’s degree (A.A./A.S.) in Life Sciences related discipline desired., Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent desired with a Life Science discipline preferred.
• Experience:
  
  3-5 years related experience in toxicology or veterinary related discipline. Six months to one year in a leadership role desired. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
• Certification/Licensure: AALAS certification desired.
• Other:
  Demonstrated leadership and word processing skills. Effective written and verbal skills.
• Must be authorized to work in United States without a sponsor visa now or in the future.

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