Associate Operations Specialist

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 experienced Associate Operations Specialist to join our Insourcing Solutions team, supporting Cambridge and Boston, MA area.

As the Associate Operations Specialist, you will provide in-vivo support to clients for technical services. Perform technical training and techniques to include surgical and/or technical procedures on rodents, including dose administration, sample collection, euthanasia, necropsy, anesthesia, surgical preparation, and recovery. Provide environmental enrichment appropriate to species and support to multiple clients lab animal facilities and technical services.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Provides technical procedure training to less experienced staff and researchers, and provide re-training as needed.
• May coordinate (or assist) or manage schedules of other team members; resolves schedule conflicts.
• Assemble, set up, operate and maintain any necessary experimental equipment to conduct in-vivo studies.
• Conduct laboratory procedures in compliance with established protocols/plans and with regulatory and laboratory requirements.
• Document experimental data in technical notebooks or approved electronic files including activities undertaken, existing conditions, observed results and variation from expected data patterns.
• Record, prepare, and analyze data for inclusion in project reports.
• With guidance from scientific management, maintain technical knowledge and understanding in his/her assigned area of responsibility.
• Perform the following techniques in rodents:
• PO, IV, SQ, IP, IM, and IN dosing and/or inoculation techniques.
• Blood collection from multiple vessels or cardiac, and perfusions.
• Tumor measurements, body weights, IBD and EAE scoring, behavioral monitoring, etc.
• Rodent telemetry and physiological recordings.
• Necropsy, tissue and fluid collections.

The following are minimum requirements related to the Associate Operations Specialist position.

High school diploma or GED is required and four (4) years related animal husbandry and/or technical experience in lab animal research facility.

Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in animal science or related field of study preferred and two (2) years of animal husbandry and/or technical experience in lab animal research facility.

AALAS certification at the Laboratory Animal Technician level (LAT) preferred.

The pay range for this position is $30-34 USD per hour. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

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-being 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.

We're committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and 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.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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