Central Services Technician I

Req ID #: 221749

Location:

Cambridge, MA, US, 02139

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, well help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

**Job Summary**

We are looking for a Central Services?Technician I?to join our Insourcing Solutions?team located?in Cambridge, MA.

**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 CST role you can do that by ensuring that animal caging, equipment, housing, and support areas are sanitized. Overall, helping to ensure the health and well-being of the animals, as well as the integrity of the research.

**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 this role you will?provide cleaning and maintenance of laboratory animal caging, equipment, and cage preparation areas as well as cleaning of animal support areas.

You will be tasked with the following

Transporting caging and equipment between animal areas and cage washrooms.

Receiving and storing feed, bedding, and supplies.

Ensure all logbooks, checklists, and other records are completed in a timely fashion.

Conduct and collect various aseptic sampling for the monitoring of water quality.

Sanitize animal racks and equipment.

Inspect enrichment devices, cages, and other items.

Provide quality assurance to the cagewash area.

**Who are we looking for?**

A candidate that possesses a high school diploma, general education degree (G.E.D.) or equivalent required. Minimum of six months experience working in a laboratory animal facility performing cage wash duties or working with glassware cleaning or a commercial dishwashing operation.

The pay range for this position is **$20.00-21.00 USD per hour.** Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

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!

**Vaccine Mandate**

This position services client(s) that requires us to ensure our employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. We will require proof of vaccination from all employees servicing client(s) with COVID-19 Vaccination requirements.

**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 clients 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 peoples 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 supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.

**Equal Employment Opportunity**

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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 [email protected] . This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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