Animal Caretaker - Darmstadt

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

• Cage changes, feeding and watering
• Cleaning of the cages and equipment
• Supervision of the stock of bedding and food
• Check of animal housing conditions in the holding rooms
• Check/inspection of the individual animals (health checks) during weekdays
• When necessary - Killing of non-experimental animals and disposal of the carcasses
• When necessary - Breeding support, with mating of the breeding animals, weaning of the offspring and tissue sampling for genotyping and marking animals
• Packing/unpacking animals for/from shipment
• Work with our animal house software (Pyrat)

Available for relocation to Darmstadt or for daily commuting.

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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