Job Description

At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people\'s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.

Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.

As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

Job Summary

Charles River is currently recruiting a Stores Assistant at our facility in Alderley Park, Cheshire. The Store Assistant will be responsible for the support and maintenance of the High-Quality facility on a day-to-day basis.

The Role:

The successful candidate\'s duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• To manage the receipt, storage, and issue of materials for use in the manufacturing facility and external facility.
• Keep all records up to date to ensure any stock movements are accounted for (cycle counting).
• Regularly communicate with stakeholders to ensure all functions are aware of incoming deliveries, shortage and any issues such as delays or deliveries that were not received.
• Maintenance of the Alderley Park facility including routine and laboratory campaign cleans.
• Compliant completion of documentation to High Quality standards.
• Preparation and autoclaving of materials and performing autoclave performance testing.
• Materials and equipment transfer as part of project start up activities.
• Working flexibly to support the teams delivering scientific processes within the High-Quality facility.
• To assist in the collection and safe removal of waste including solvent, hazardous and non-hazardous and recyclable waste.
• To perform manufacturing operations compliant to HQ standards, as defined in the Alderley Park Quality system.
• To adhere to Charles River\' Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures

Profile and Requirements

About You

Previous experience in a Stores environment is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided. Practical laboratory experience is desirable but not essential.

We are ideally looking for an individual who can demonstrate initiative, that is adaptable and has the ability to work flexibly.

As you will work closely with various departments across 2 sites, to ensure the safeguarding of stock, you will require strong written and verbal communication skills.

This role will be based at Alderley Park, Cheshire, however, a willingness to travel within the Group will be required.

About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

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 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 supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.

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.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

Charles River Laboratories