Associate Scientist/ Animal Technician

Animal Sciences and Technologies team

Hays Specialist Recruitment is now looking to recruit an Animal Technician to join the Animal Sciences and Technologies team for a short-term contract assignment until 2022-01-31 at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg.

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.

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)

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.