CM Research Support & Scheduler

What You Will Achieve
This position will consist of approximately 60% scheduling and approximately 40% research support providing handling, restraint, and health surveillance of laboratory animals, and providing basic technical assistance (i.e., restraint, injections, bleeds) for other technicians and researchers. This individual will organize and schedule the range of support provided by Comparative Medicine on a daily basis to partners in Research and Development in the delivery of technical support, experiments, procedures, protocols or studies involving animal models. This position will ensure efficiency of support is optimized for the FTE resource defined as being available by the CM Management. All responsibilities should be performed in compliance with applicable local and/or global regulatory standards. All duties require minimal supervision.
How You Will Achieve It

• Perform all regulatory responsibilities in compliance with applicable regulatory standards.
• Schedule and approve requests for research support, including optimizing the resource allocated by CM management to deliver technical support to project teams on a daily basis. Liaising with the CM Management to look ahead at schedules to ensure resource is available to account for absences (e.g., vacation, sickness, leave).
• Support the project teams in Research and Development by monitoring technical procedures in the conduct of experiments and protocols and supporting the collecting, recording and exporting data in the delivery of studies. Interact with the key in vivo contacts in project teams to understand their needs, engaging them in a flexible and constructive manner.
• Set a workplace standard through leading by example, showing mastery of all SOP's, regulatory guidelines and Pfizer policies. Exemplify workplace standards, positive habits and behaviors to co-workers.
• Support research by providing basic technical services (restraint, dose administration, blood collection) to research investigators and assist with training of CM colleagues.
• Required to work with all species across the site with assignment based on the business needs
• Contribute to operational excellence by the collection/collation of metrics showing the efficient delivery of support across projects teams, including alignment with colleagues in CM in the delivery of technical support and its associated metrics when required. Conduct business process reviews to ensure optimized resource utilization and operational efficiencies across the program.
• Maintains appropriate records in compliance with regulatory and departmental standards, this may include maintaining animal study related records.
• Rotational weekend and holiday work may be required.

Will be required to work under one of the following: the United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act and associated Regulations and Standards, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Good Laboratory Practices, and AAALAC accreditation standards.
Qualifications
Must-Have

• BS/BA with 3+ years' experience OR MA/MBA/MS with 0+ years' experience
• Experience working in a laboratory animal setting
• Ability to demonstrate level of technical skills and abilities

Nice-to-Have

• AALAS certification preferred
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical setting preferred

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must be able to lift 50 pounds and work standing up lifting items above shoulder level for extended periods of time. Ability to perform repetitive physical activities such as pushing and pulling racks of caging, lifting bags of feed and bedding, reaching, stooping and bending.
• For this position, if at a site with nonhuman primates, you are expected to enter the nonhuman primate areas as part of your job responsibilities, a pre-hire requirement is either providing proof of measles immunity or receiving the measles vaccination before hire.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Weekend and holiday work are required.
• This is an essential personnel role: Essential Personnel are defined as the staff who are required to report to their designated work location, to ensure the operation of essential functions or departments during an emergency, as determined by Pfizer, or when the business has suspended operations. There are some individuals who may be required to perform essential services remotely and those individuals will be identified in advance and notified by their supervisors, but in most cases Essential Personnel are required to be onsite during an emergency or suspension of operations.

Work Location Assignment: On Premise
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $66,500.00 to $110,900.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 7.5% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life's moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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