Technical Administrator
Ballina, IE, F26D786
At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job Summary
This role shall report to the Admin Supervisor and the main duties & responsibilities shall be to assist in the following:
• Receipt, storage and accountability of deliveries (i.e. test samples) and recording of same using an electronic system.
• Document control: processing documents using an electronic system.
• Archiving of data
• Generation of Certificates and Reports, general correspondence, inputting of data, emailing of tests results on a daily basis
• File all Test Reports in appropriate Client files – responsible for maintaining extensive filing system.
• Dealing with day-to-day queries from client base via telephone and email – details passed on to relevant personnel as required.
Profile and Requirements
The following are the minimum requirements related to the Administrator position:
• Secretarial or Computer Certificate or equivalent (preferable but not essential)
• Proven record of working in a busy Administrative environment.
• IT Skills – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to interact with peers effectively.
• Be able to deal with people at all levels including internal and external clients.
• Strong administration, documentation and analytical skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and multi-task.
• Excellent Organisational skills & Good Time Management
• Meticulous attention to detail essential
• Adopt a can-do attitude.
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
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 supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.
At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.