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.
An exciting opportunity is available to support the Dublin Accugenix laboratory.
The Laboratory Coordinator, under the guidance of the Laboratory Manager & Supervisor, will be required to perform administrative, coordination & CI project tasks as well as some aspects of the Molecular Technologist role.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Completion of the following activities to support the Laboratory Supervisor to ensure optimum performance of the Accugenix Laboratory:
- Lead/Support the implementation of continuous improvement methods to enhance area operations, efficiency, job satisfaction and service to both internal and external customers.
- Work on developing efficient work procedures and processes that support company and departmental standards, procedures, and strategic directives.
- Work closely with QA to ensure activities for testing routine are dealt with in a timely manner: OOS, deviation, Change Controls, etc.
- Work side by side with all personnel to complete projects and daily work-related items.
- Perform customer sample processing activities if required.
- Ensure adherence to pertinent regulatory requirements (GMP, FDA, ISO) and to departmental policies, practices, and procedures (SOPs, safety procedures and biosafety protocols).
- Assist and coordinate training of laboratory personnel and ensure completion of training activities in a timely manner.
- Coordinate with Facilities to maintain the calibration & qualification schedule of equipment in the laboratories.
- Assist Management in customer audits and tours when applicable.
- Perform all other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. /B.S.) in Microbiology / Biology or a related discipline essential.
Experience
Minimum of 3 to 5 years related experience in a pharmaceutical microbiology laboratory setting. 3 years of experience with DNA Sequencing and/or MALDI-TOF microbial identification testing required.
Other: Knowledge of MS Windows based programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint as well as previous experience in using other company specific program applications.
Experience in a cGMP environment required.
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.
