Logistics Technician
Dublin, IE, D09
For nearly 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.
Job Summary
Essential DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Receive and distribute shipments according to established SOP & procedures.
• Package materials according to standard operation procedure.
• Maintain dock and warehouse area in an orderly fashion as per SOP.
• Prepare, maintain and distribute appropriate documentation for all materials shipped. GDP compliant.
• Coordinate and perform courier pick-ups/deliveries as necessary.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned by Manager or Supervisor.
Ideally suited to someone who enjoys active, physical work and has some demonstrable track record of performance within a similar environment.
Structured working week full time 37.5 hours.
Job Qualifications
• Education: Leaving Certificate or higher.
• Experience: 1-2 years related experience.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
• Certification/Licensure: Valid driver’s license preferred.
• Other: Must have excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities; attention to detail, computer literacy; and the ability to interact appropriately at all levels.
• Ideally knowledge of electronic equipment, instrumentation and spare parts including experience of moving and handing in a safe manner.
• Ideally Awareness of supply chain processes and best practices.
• Ideally project experience or knowledge.
• SAP experience.
• Fork Lift Truck Operator desirable, but not essential.
Benefits Summary
Annual Leave
All full-time employees receive 172.5 hours holiday per year (plus 10 bank holidays}. In addition, a further 7.5hrs wellbeing time is also applicable.
Group Personal Pension Plan– Irish Life
Personal enrolment into the Pension Scheme is mandatory from day 1 of employment whereby the company will match employee contributions of 5% of base salary. Contributions are paid monthly and will be allocated to individual employee fund.
Laya Healthcare Medical Insurance
Effective from your first day, colleagues can choose to have Private Medical Insurance with Laya.
Charles River Employee Discount Scheme (CREDS)
CREDS is a discount shopping website featuring over 3000 big-name retailers, set up specifically to benefit our colleagues. From mobile phones to groceries, clothes to electricals, and even holidays, with the option to accumulate cashback online, get instant discount codes or order top-up cards and vouchers to use in-stores.
About Microbial Solutions
Our Microbial Solutions business group has a comprehensive portfolio of endotoxin testing, microbial detection and microbial identification products and services is unlike any other, and has been purposefully designed to meet the complex and ever-changing needs of the industry. We help clients to ensure product safety and quality with easy-to-use yet robust testing solutions that satisfy regulatory requirements, support critical decision making and improve operational efficiencies.
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.
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.
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