Senior Veterinary Pathologist
Tranent, GB, EH33 2NE
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.
Job Summary
Are you a qualified Veterinary Pathologist looking for your next role?
Have you got the desire to improve health and lives?
Charles River Laboratories are excited to be recruiting for a Senior Veterinary Pathologist to join the Tranent site in Edinburgh, UK. This is a full time, onsite position, candidates must be able to travel to Edinburgh on a daily basis.
The Senior Veterinary Pathologist is responsible for applying advanced scientific knowledge to perform gross and microscopic evaluation of tissues, and for recording results, preparing complex reports delineating pathological findings, and assisting with necropsy supervision.
You’ll be working directly with customers as needed to market company services and to assure customer satisfaction and be able to provide guidance to less experienced staff members onsite.
What you’ll be doing:
• Interact with clients to assure satisfaction and to market services.
• Perform macroscopic and microscopic tissue evaluation and interpretation of assigned studies.
• May assist with necropsy supervision and may conduct necropsies, including gross pathology interpretation, sample collection and fixation.
• Enter pathology findings in data capturing system(s).
• Write comprehensive report narratives detailing all test article effects. As needed, work with study directors to ensure data is accurately integrated into study reports.
• May perform scientific review of reports
• May serve as a study director or principal investigator on certain projects.
• May function as a peer review pathologist or may participate in a pathology working group (PWG) as a pathologist.
• Provide training, technical guidance and leadership to laboratory staff and to less experienced pathologists.
• Serve as a consultant in pathology-related issues.
• Provide advanced scientific expertise for experimental design and other aspects of research studies as needed.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.
• To participate in overtime as is reasonably required to ensure the smooth running of the department.
• To conduct work in accordance with SOPs and the principles of Good Laboratory Practice and Good Clinical Practice.
• To report to a supervisor any anomalous observations or any equipment malfunction incapable of immediate rectification, any data integrity issues, any animal sickness or any other factor which will impede the normal scheduling of any Charles River study.
Job Qualifications
Skills and Experience:
• Education: Veterinary degree (BVM&S, BVSc or equivalent) from an accredited veterinary school, or acceptable international equivalent in veterinary medicine.
• Experience: Significant pathology experience post-graduation; working knowledge of clinical pathology; specialized training and/or experience in toxicologic pathology preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
• Certification/Licensure: Part I RCPath or equivalent recognized pathology certification required to enter the grade at the minimum experience level. Additional years of directly related experience may substitute for the board-certification.
• Other: Must have a reputation as an emerging leader in the company with sustained performance and accomplishment. Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, scientific creativity, collaboration with others and independent thought. Able to work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Computer literacy in word processing, spreadsheet and database software.
About Safety Assessment
Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.
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 fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.
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