Surgery - Associate

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked to advance the discovery, development, and safe manufacture of new drug therapies, making a profound impact on global health. Our 20-year partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital takes this mission to the next level, supporting groundbreaking innovations that directly impact patient care. At Boston Children’s, their commitment to diversity drives the exceptional quality of care provided to patients from local communities to over 160 countries worldwide. This is your moment to become part of a family where unique talents and perspectives unite to change lives, including your own. Together, we’re shaping a healthier future through compassion, innovation, and opportunity.  

• Responsible for preparing shipping documents for surgical models.
• Responsible for the management of operating room instruments and equipment, including maintenance, calibration, and upkeep.
• Ability to independently perform vascular catheter intubation, non-vascular catheter intubation, organ resection, organ ligation, and other customized surgical models.
• Ability to independently perform basic procedures on laboratory animals, including restraint, handling, identification, euthanasia, oral gavage, subcutaneous/intraperitoneal/tail vein injection, cardiac puncture, blood collection, and tissue collection.
• Ability to independently operate inhalation anesthesia systems, and prepare routine pharmaceuticals and disinfectants.
• Ability to promptly report abnormal conditions of laboratory animals to superiors.
• Perform 6S, EHS, and animal welfare-related tasks to ensure compliance with company regulations and standards.
• According to pathogen control requirements for SPF-level animals, assist in managing the barrier environment's microbiology, including but not limited to biosafety promotion, prevention, cleaning, disinfection, and supervision, actively cooperating with veterinarians in relevant biosafety prevention and control to ensure facility safety.
• Complete other tasks assigned by superiors.
• Assist in the research and development of surgical models.

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 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.

We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life.  Based on your position these may include:  bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.

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