Junior Technician

For 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.

Job Overview

Do you have a passion for Life Sciences?

Have you got the desire to improve health and lives?

Charles River Laboratories are now recruiting for a Junior Technician on a full time, permanent basis to work at our High Peak, UK site located in the heart of the UK’s Peak District national park.

This site is a specialist biotechnology site with proprietary Cell Microarray Technology. We provide unique receptor ID / off-target screening services to accelerate, inform, and improve the safety of the discovery and pre-clinical development process for clients. We are recognised as leading technology within the biotherapeutic field.

As a Junior Technician, you’ll be working in a lab-based support role, under close supervision to execute tasks in accordance with established procedures. Full, comprehensive training will be provided in the role.

This opportunity would suit someone who is looking to start their career in life sciences, a degree is not necessary for this role.

Job Description

Duties include:

• Maintain a high standard of laboratory cleanliness and housekeeping in all laboratory areas.
• Monitoring and maintaining core stocks of consumables.
• Assist with day-to-day laboratory maintenance tasks.
• Maintain a high standard of waste management within the laboratories. This includes following the specified disposal waste streams may include the use of autoclaves (training provided).
• Maintain levels of laboratory buffers / reagents.
• Routine cleaning of equipment e.g. tissue culture hoods, incubators, water baths, freezers.
• Assisting with the receipt of incoming and outgoing packages/deliveries as required.
• Logging and maintaining accurate records.
• To assist with admin tasks as required e.g. distribution of items across site, reception support.

Skills and Qualifications:
• GCSE in Maths and English, as a minimum. NO DEGREE REQUIRED.
• Desire to work in the Life Sciences industry
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good organisational skills - ability to organise your own daily and weekly tasks effectively.
• Be an effective team player.
• To have good attention to detail.
• Computer literacy – good basic computer skills and the aptitude to quickly learn and use new software packages following training.
• Able to travel to our High Peak site daily.
• Candidates must have full Right to Work in the UK and not require visa sponsorship now or in the future as we are unable to provide this for this position.

The salary for this position is £24,784/annum + bonus + benefits. Please note that the salary varies within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

What We Offer You
• A very comprehensive benefits package from day one, including a generous pension contribution, private medical, BONUS and more!
• The opportunity to get industry standard training and experience.
• Global opportunities and strong career progression.
• Personal development and skills enrichment as one of our key focuses.
• To be able make a difference to health and well being of people.

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 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.

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 fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.