Animal Technician/ Scientist

Associate Scientist/ Animal Technician

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. We are proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.

The Animal Sciences and Technologies (AST) is a global department that delivers in vivo studies, animal care, and welfare that is compliant to internal standards and external regulations. Principles of the 3Rs are applied to all aspects of animal care and study conduction.

About the position
The role
• Performs daily animal husbandry tasks for rodents, routine facility operations tasks, and maintains the highest standards of animal care & welfare.
• Responsibilities may include more technical procedures such as collecting biological samples, weighing and administering medicines/compounds
• Maintains daily record keeping for animals and environment
• Performs preventative maintenance and maintains service records on racks and caging equipment
• Is required to work flexibly across different areas, and participate in provision of weekend and out of hours support.
• Ensures that work is performed in accordance with appropriate Safety, Health & Environment (SHE), quality and compliance standards, e.g. Good Laboratory Standard (GLS)

Your profile
Minimum experience/requirements

• Experience in working with laboratory rodents and strong interest in animal care and welfare.
• Ability to perform work independently and consistently to the required standard on a consistent basis.
• Understand principles and concepts associated with Laboratory Animal Science particularly on animal welfare and the 3Rs.
• Good communication skills.
• Laboratory Animal education by NCLASET or other relevant Laboratory animal science (LAS) course. This may be optional, if the candidate proves to relevant experience in animal care.

About the organisation
At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering groundbreaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.
So, what’s next! Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

This is a consultant assignment for two candidates at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg, where one assignment ends 2022-04-10 and the other assignment ends 2022-05-31. During the period of the assignment you will be employed by Poolia.