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Posted: 31-Aug-23
Location: Mattawan, Michigan
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 214877
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.
We are seeking a Staff Veterinarian (any experience level) within our Veterinary Services Team at our Mattawan, MI facility.
The Charles River Mattawan facility has over 1700 employees. Join our dynamic Mattawan Veterinary Services team of 10 veterinarians and over 30 veterinary technicians and behaviorists to care for a diverse range of laboratory, companion, and farm animal species. Our site offers a full-range of pre-clinical services with multiple areas of specialty study focus, including drug safety, surgery, neurology, cardiovascular pharmacology, reproduction, molecular imaging, and ophthalmology. Located in southwest Michigan, surrounded by lakes, we are 15 minutes from Kalamazoo, a college town of over 100,000, and a bit over two hours from Chicago or Detroit.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide consultation, oversight, and direct support of veterinary care activities for all animals used at Charles River.
- Respond to veterinary consults by examining animals, making treatment recommendations, communicating with study directors, and following cases through resolution.
- On-call/emergency service on a rotating basis shared amongst the team of clinical veterinarians.
- Assist the Attending Veterinarian and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) to ensure compliance with animal welfare standards and regulations by AAALAC, Int., USDA, and PHS-OLAW.
- Support the evaluation of test article effects by performing examinations and making assessments to interpret study effects in animals.
- Support the development of cutting-edge therapeutics and help lead high-quality animal care programs in line with the institution’s commitment to high standards of animal welfare.
- Make meaningful impact in animal care while enhancing data integrity and scientific rigor of our studies through highly intentional collaborative and supportive efforts with the scientific and operational staff.
To apply, please send a resume/CV (optional cover letter) and location(s) that are of interest to: Aaron Litwin @ aaron.litwin@crl.com.
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 17,000 employees within 90 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. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.
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 ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.
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 120 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com
Qualifications for the positions include, but are not limited to:
- DVM or equivalent degree obtained from an AVMA accredited institution from 1 year to 20+ years of relevant experience.
- Licensure to practice veterinary medicine in at least one state, preferred.
- USDA accreditation, preferred.
- Basic familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Computer skills, commensurate with Essential Functions and including ability to learn a validated system.
- Ability to work extended hours beyond normal work schedule when scheduled for emergency-on-call duties (shared amongst the team) to include, but not limited to, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to work under specific time constraints.
