For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked to advance the discovery, development, and safe manufacture of new drug therapies, making a profound impact on global health. Our 20-year partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital takes this mission to the next level, supporting groundbreaking innovations that directly impact patient care. At Boston Children’s, their commitment to diversity drives the exceptional quality of care provided to patients from local communities to over 160 countries worldwide. This is your moment to become part of a family where unique talents and perspectives unite to change lives, including your own. Together, we’re shaping a healthier future through compassion, innovation, and opportunity. **Job Summary** We are seeking a **Husbandry Lead Technician** to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located at Boston's Children's Hospital.  You will be working with multiple animal species. _This is a full-time opportunity, Monday-Friday with some weekends, holidays, and evenings._ The **Husbandry Lead Technician** will provide guidance and oversight of the animal care technicians in the day-to-day operations of Boston Children's Hospital animal facilities. **ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:** + Assist in overseeing the day-to-day animal care operations and providing guidance to animal care technicians, ensuring the proper husbandry practices are followed. + Provide input to supervisor/senior supervisor regarding animal care technician's work performance, strengths/ weaknesses. + Assist in coordinating animal care technicians work assignments in scheduling with a primary focus on planning, organizing and distributing work among team members. + Coordinate and assist in ensuring that adequate supplies are in barrier, animal holding rooms and other areas as specified. + Provide support in animal rooms changing cages, and work in cage wash operation as needed. + Ensure proper maintenance of animal records including, room logs, health reports, cage card labels, animal census and other records as required. Oversee record maintenance including quality assurance records, machine maintenance logs, room logbooks, machine repair logs. Report to management with issues related to staff, equipment, facility, or the operation. + Ensure that all animal rooms are observed daily to monitor for sick, impaired or dead animals, and reports findings to the veterinary staff or alternatively to the husbandry supervisor or senior supervisor. + Collaborate with the veterinary staff to ensure that the health and welfare of laboratory animals are maintained in compliance with local, state, federal and institutional guidelines and regulations. + Maintain quality performance of departmental and client objectives - including meeting/exceeding departmental standards with respect to animal health and welfare, facilities condition, sanitation levels. + Conduct routine inspections of all animal holding and support facilities to ensure established levels are met for: animal health, facilities condition, sanitation levels, environmental parameters and security. + Coordinate repair and general up-keep of physical environment in areas of responsibility. + Interact with customers as required to solve customer requests, inquiries, and complaints and to provide technical assistance. Serve as a liaison between research staff and support personnel. + Provide input to supervisor/senior supervisor regarding animal care technician's work performance, strengths/ weaknesses, and weekly work schedules. + Assist with the training program for the animal care technicians, such as, animal husbandry, facility sanitization, quality assurance, cage wash operations, and machine operation and maintenance. + Serve as a role model for effective time management, communication and utilization of resources + Ensure accurate, high-quality work, and adherence to pertinent departmental policies, practices and procedures (SOPs, department policies and procedures, safety procedures). + Responsible for providing back up, and assistance for the Animal Facility Supervisor. + Perform all other related duties as assigned. **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS** + High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED). + Two (2) to four (4) years husbandry experience in a laboratory animal facility. + _An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above._ + Minimum of six (6) months of supervisory or leadership experience of QC auditing and overseeing the day-to-day activities in an animal laboratory facility. + Exceptional customer service skills as you will be working with faculty, research personnel and the ARCH Client staff. + Excellent verbal and written communication skills. + Proof of current vaccinations for both COVID-19 and Influenza. + Proficient in computers (IE: MS Office suite). **PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:** * The ability to successfully achieve AALAS certification at the Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician level (ALAT) or higher within 1 year. * Database & record keeping of laboratory animal operations. **_The pay range for this position is $35.00 to $37.00 USD per hour.  Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location. _** **About Insourcing Solutions** Charles River Insourcing Solutions℠ can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic insourcing of GMP, GLP and non-GLP research services from discovery through safety assessment. Insourcing Solutions℠ provides you with the ability to maintain control of your facility and expertise while leveraging available space. **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. We're committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility. **Equal Employment Opportunity** Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status. It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. 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. 225844