We are looking for an Animal Facility Supervisor to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in South San Francisco, CA.

How will you have an impact?
This is the moment to use your talents and imagine those talents contributing to improving global health and peoples’ lives. In the Facility Supervisor role, you can do that by supervising the daily husbandry and study support activities in the Vivarium.

Why work at Charles River? 
We offer an excellent onboarding program for our new employees, internal career development, and competitive benefits! 

What you will do!
In the Animal Facility Supervisor role, you will plan, create, assign, and monitor work schedules for staff daily assignments and for weekend/holiday coverage. In partnership with HR, conduct interviews, assist in recruitment efforts, investigate personnel issues, and respond to employees per company policies. You will participate in meetings with Operations to keep them informed of current/future projects; monitor and document task completion/deviations from defined KPI's to submit monthly to upper management in support of contract deliverables. Providing backup support to include husbandry, dosing, injections, and collections will be necessary on an as needed basis. The AFS will identify staff training needs and ensure necessary training is conducted, as well as conduct and participate in train the trainer sessions.

In this role you will also generate work orders and ensure documentation of all corrective maintenance and preventative maintenance procedures and follow up to ensure timely resolution to issues and provide updates to management when resolved. Provide timely, concise and effective communication regarding all facility utilities, infrastructure, process equipment, and supply chain and housing system issues to Management and coordinate the movement of animals throughout the facility and assign housing locations for receipt of new animals. In addition, the AFS will oversee adherence to all site operational procedures and all required documentation related to the department as well as supervise record maintenance and generate and submit internal and external reports in the required formats and timeframes and report to management on operations related issues.

Who are we looking for?
A candidate that possesses a HS diploma or GED is required; Bachelor of Science in Animal Science or related field preferred, Minimum five (5) years in a laboratory animal facility of which 3 years is supervisory or management experience. AALAS certification at the Laboratory Animal Technician level (LAT) or higher /ability to successfully achieve LATG certification within 24 months. An equivalent combination of education, experience, and certifications may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.

If you are interested in contributing to the well-being of our communities, not only across the country but around the world, please join us and BE THE DIFFERENCE!

The pay range for this position is $87-95K annually. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

About Charles River Laboratories

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. 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. With over 20,000 employees within 100 facilities in 23 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resour...ces 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. We have proudly supported the development of ~86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021. Equal Employment Opportunity Charles River is deeply committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, citizenship, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Accordingly, all employment decisions and personnel actions or programs shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity, including selection, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff and termination, opportunities for training and advancement, rates of pay and other types of compensation, benefits, and other aspects of employment.

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