Job Title: Animal Health VeterinarianLocation: Ridgefield, CTDuration: 24 Months (Part-time)Note: Its a part-time role.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)