Industry: Biotechnology

Title: Animal Health Veterinarian

Job ID: 33998713

Location: Ridgefield, CT 06877

Duration: 24 months contract with the possibility to extend

Hours Per Week: 12.00

Duties:

• Provides veterinary medical and surgical care to laboratory animals.
• Daily interactions providing service to Research & Development and Manufacturing & Quality departments.
• Duties may be done during normal business hours or Part-time to include some weekends providing clinical laboratory animal medicine, IACUC protocol development, minimal study support, animal user training and verification, and colony preventive medicine.
• Weekend “on call” duty where a veterinarian may be called to provide advice on veterinary care, and may on some occasions, provide onsite direct animal care.
• Identifies gaps and develops and implements animal care and use guidelines.
• Conducts procedures and documents performance of effective veterinary preventive medicine program for animal colony.
• Proactively provides uninterrupted veterinary medical and surgical support functions to AAALAC and GLP standards; responds to IACUC concerns in a timely and professional manner.
• Functions as a resource and technical leader to the IACUC, principal investigators and study directors.
• Mentors junior staff; participates in training

Skills:

• Certification/License: DVM/VMD, ACLAM certification
• Licensed in a state in US (required) Ability to become licensed in the state of CT.
• Board certified in the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM).
• Experience in a research animal facility, pharmaceutical environment (toxicology) a plus.

Education:

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM or VMD)