Job Summary

We are looking for a Central Services Technician I (Cage Processing) to join our

Insourcing Solutions team located in South San Francisco, CA.

How will you have an impact?

This is the moment to use your talents and imagine those talents contributing to improving global health and peoples’ lives. In the ACTI (Cage Processing) role you can do that by providing quality assurance to the cagewash area to help ensure the health and well-being of all the animals, as well at the integrity of the research.

Why work at Charles River?

We offer an excellent onboarding program for our new employees; internal career development, and competitive benefits.

What you will do!

In the Central Services Technician I (cage processing) role, you will provide cleaning and maintenance of laboratory animal caging, equipment and cage preparation areas as well as cleaning of animal support areas under minimal supervision.

Additional responsibilities include:

Operate commercial tunnel and rack washers for cleaning and sanitizing animal cage supplies through automatic processes.

Operate commercial autoclave machinery to sterilize caging equipment and instruments for the animals.

Maintain documentation for QA including but not limited to temperature strips, room environmental reports and logs, dish washer and/or autoclaving logs.

Handle and transfer supplies (caging, gases, dry ice, liquid nitrogen), and waste as needed to and from work area(s).

Perform daily cage wash area duties including recycling and scheduled sanitation procedures with documentation.

Provide cleaning and maintenance of laboratory animal caging, equipment and cage preparation areas as well as cleaning of animal support areas with supporting documentation under supervision.

Provide quality assurance to the cagewash area.

Ability to work in a repetitive high throughput environment.