What You Will Achieve
This position will consist of approximately 60% scheduling and approximately 40% research support providing handling, restraint, and health surveillance of laboratory animals, and providing basic technical assistance (i.e., restraint, injections, bleeds) for other technicians and researchers. This individual will organize and schedule the range of support provided by Comparative Medicine on a daily basis to partners in Research and Development in the delivery of technical support, experiments, procedures, protocols or studies involving animal models. This position will ensure efficiency of support is optimized for the FTE resource defined as being available by the CM Management. All responsibilities should be performed in compliance with applicable local and/or global regulatory standards. All duties require minimal supervision.
How You Will Achieve It
Perform all regulatory responsibilities in compliance with applicable regulatory standards.
Schedule and approve requests for research support, including optimizing the resource allocated by CM management to deliver technical support to project teams on a daily basis. Liaising with the CM Management to look ahead at schedules to ensure resource is available to account for absences (e.g., vacation, sickness, leave).
Support the project teams in Research and Development by monitoring technical procedures in the conduct of experiments and protocols and supporting the collecting, recording and exporting data in the delivery of studies. Interact with the key in vivo contacts in project teams to understand their needs, engaging them in a flexible and constructive manner.
Set a workplace standard through leading by example, showing mastery of all SOP’s, regulatory guidelines and Pfizer policies. Exemplify workplace standards, positive habits and behaviors to co-workers.
Support research by providing basic technical services (restraint, dose administration, blood collection) to research investigators and assist with training of CM colleagues.
Required to work with all species across the site with assignment based on the business needs
Contribute to operational excellence by the collection/collation of metrics showing the efficient delivery of support across projects teams, including alignment with colleagues in CM in the delivery of technical support and its associated metrics when required. Conduct business process reviews to ensure optimized resource utilization and operational efficiencies across the program.
Maintains appropriate records in compliance with regulatory and departmental standards, this may include maintaining animal study related records.
Rotational weekend and holiday work may be required.
Will be required to work under one of the following: the United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act and associated Regulations and Standards, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Good Laboratory Practices, and AAALAC accreditation standards.
Qualifications
Must-Have
BS/BA with 3+ years' experience OR MA/MBA/MS with 0+ years' experience
Experience working in a laboratory animal setting
Ability to demonstrate level of technical skills and abilities
Nice-to-Have
AALAS certification preferred
Experience working in a pharmaceutical setting preferred
PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Must be able to lift 50 pounds and work standing up lifting items above shoulder level for extended periods of time. Ability to perform repetitive physical activities such as pushing and pulling racks of caging, lifting bags of feed and bedding, reaching, stooping and bending.
For this position, if at a site with nonhuman primates, you are expected to enter the nonhuman primate areas as part of your job responsibilities, a pre-hire requirement is either providing proof of measles immunity or receiving the measles vaccination before hire.
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
Weekend and holiday work are required.
This is an essential personnel role: Essential Personnel are defined as the staff who are required to report to their designated work location, to ensure the operation of essential functions or departments during an emergency, as determined by Pfizer, or when the business has suspended operations. There are some individuals who may be required to perform essential services remotely and those individuals will be identified in advance and notified by their supervisors, but in most cases Essential Personnel are required to be onsite during an emergency or suspension of operations.
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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