Manager, Vivarium

Job Description

Our Research Scientists are our Inventors. We identify and target steps in disease mechanisms or pathways that could be inhibited or enhanced. We use innovative thinking, state-of-the-art facilities and robust scientific methodology we collaborate to discover the next medical breakthrough.

Our company is focused on driving discovery research. Our new multi-disciplinary discovery research site offers state-of- the-art resources to explore the most promising science combined with our company's world-class research and discovery expertise in small molecules and biologics. Located within the heart of the Bay Area’s biomedical community, research conducted in our new laboratories spans exploratory biology through early clinical development and is an integral part of Merck’s powerful world-class network of drug and vaccine discovery.

At our company, we are inspired by the belief that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to scientific excellence can create medicines and vaccines that save and improve lives. Every employee is building on our proud legacy of scientific breakthrough. Our ability to impact the lives of patients worldwide relies on the integrity, creativity, humility, and scientific acumen of our team. We are creating a diverse organization that is inspired by invention and founded on a culture of respect and team-oriented environment. At our company's Research Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills through partnership with talented and dedicated colleagues while advancing your career.

The Manager/Sr. Scientist Clinical Services position under the guidance of a West Point LAR operations, works to provide world class animal care to impact drug development and discovery and improve human health.

Job Duties:

• Manages compliance with departmental Standard Operating Procedures, our company's Research Laboratories study requirements, as well as applicable regulations and guidelines to include USDA requirements and NIH Guide.
• Oversees the details of animal care and related activities of Laboratory Animal Resources, to include direct supervision, training, and management oversight of up to 15 animal care workers.
• Make work assignments, ensuring completion and quality, and administers personnel policies and contract employee agreements.
• Ensures that quality support of research laboratory animal programs is a team effort between LAR, research staff and other organizations.
• Collaborates across projects; communicates work related information to project teams: some contacts outside the department / Company.
• May represent functional group on department teams or committees.
• Independently carries out technical duties related to laboratory practices, supplies organization, and laboratory records management.
• Engages in interdepartmental collaborations with other members of our company's Research Laboratories community.
• Compiles managerial reports (ex. animal census).
• Communicates effectively, both verbal and written, with departmental and research staff.
• Assume a lead role in training of departmental and research staff in specific activities; provides direction for up to 15 animal care personnel in providing laboratory animal care and husbandry.
• Oversees the ordering of animals to meet research needs; coordinate animal purchases with area veterinarians to ensure adequate housing; equipment and manpower are available.
• Work with other LAR personnel develops and implements equipment and process validation programs. This includes but is not limited to, the validation of sanitation procedures, water testing, airborne particulate analysis, and temperature and light level testing and validation.
• Maintains animal source and transaction records in compliance with our company, state and federal requirements.
• Develops, implements, and monitors the use of SOPs for daily activities. Manages husbandry equipment including rack washers, bottle washers, Tunnels washers, automated bedding systems and bulk sterilizers, and trains employees in their operation.
• Has experience in animal handling and restraint, various dosing and blood sampling techniques.
• May be included in rotational weekend and holiday duty.

Education:

• B.S. in biology or related in vivo field

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of five (5) years of research in vivo field

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• M.S. in biology or related in vivo field
• Ten (10) years of Research Laboratory in vivo management
• ALAT, AAALAS certification

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we “follow the science” that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Requisition ID:R191071