Animal Caretaker - Heidelberg

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.

Riepilogo del lavoro

For an Insourcing Solution client based in Heidelberg , we're looking for an Animal Caretaker. You'll be integrated into our Insourcing Solution department and work directly with one of our clients.

• Feeding, giving water, transferring to clean cages.
• Performing breeding measures according to theinstructions provided by the users.
• Entries into the breeding and cage management program.
• Ear punch marking / genotyping.
• Identification of animal cages by cage cards and bar code reader.
• Observation of the experimental and breeding animals as well as recording ofconspicuous observations (behaviour, disease; collection of data relevant toanimal welfare);
• Killing of animals according to legal regulations.
• Carrying out hygiene measures in animal rooms and connected areas.
• Collecting samples for microbiological examinations.

Available for relocation to Heidelberg

Good command of the German language.

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 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.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.

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