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 SUMMARY

We are seeking a Cagewash Technician II to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in Boston, MA.
As the Cagewash Technician II, Provide cleaning and maintenance of laboratory animal caging, equipment and cage preparation areas as well as cleaning of animal support areas independent of supervision. Provide quality assurance to the area of cagewash.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Dumps and scrapes soiled bedding from caging and prepares caging for cagewash independent of supervision.
• Sanitizes caging and related equipment using cage washers, pressure washer, or hand washing as required.
• Properly dispose of soiled bedding and waste in specified receptacles.
• Cleans and sanitizes cage preparation and storage areas.
• Monitors and records results of cagewash water temperature and cleaning results using provided supplies such as temperature dots/strips, cultures.
• Ensures that all logbooks, checklists and other records are completed in a timely fashion.
• Flushes all animal racks.
• Beds and prepares clean cages for use.
• Ensures the correct times are selected and are used for each cagewash load.
• Ensure proper amounts of chemicals are present. Reports any chemical needs to the supervisor.
• Reports mechanical failures promptly and properly to the supervisor.
• May assist in animal husbandry duties as needed.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

The following are minimum requirements related to the Cagewash Technician II position:

• High school diploma or general education degree
• Experience a minimum of nine months related experience

• Dumps and scrapes soiled bedding from caging and prepares caging for cagewash independent of supervision.
• Sanitizes caging and related equipment using cage washers, pressure washer, or hand washing as required.
• Properly dispose of soiled bedding and waste in specified receptacles.
• Cleans and sanitizes cage preparation and storage areas.
• Monitors and records results of cagewash water temperature and cleaning results using provided supplies such as temperature dots/strips, cultures.
• Ensures that all logbooks, checklists and other records are completed in a timely fashion.
• Flushes all animal racks.
• Beds and prepares clean cages for use.
• Ensures the correct times are selected and are used for each cagewash load.
• Ensure proper amounts of chemicals are present. Reports any chemical needs to the supervisor.
• Reports mechanical failures promptly and properly to the supervisor.
• May assist in animal husbandry duties as needed