Title:  Veterinary Scientist

Job description

Job title: Associate Scientist

Job location: Bangalore

Job grade: 8-I

About syngene:  syngene (www.syngeneintl.com) is an innovation-led contract research, development and manufacturing organization offering integrated scientific services from early discovery to commercial supply.

At syngene, safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures, and sops, in letter and spirit

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams, and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’s quality standards at all times
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time

Core Purpose of the Role:

The candidate will support safety assessment vivarium program, including vivarium operations, provision of veterinary medical care and management of animal care staff. The candidate will also provide support to ethical animal care and use by promoting 3Rs including the efforts to maintain AAALAC standards in vivarium.
The incumbent will help us supervise the day-to-day operational and administrative activities and ensuring that all processes are followed / executed as per the timelines.

Role Accountabilities:

• Clinical and health monitoring of laboratory animals and maintain the standards in vivarium
• Ensure that practices and procedures are aligned with Animal Welfare Regulations and AAALAC
• Effective management with cross functional team members of discovery and regulatory environment.
• Ensuring the regulatory compliance such as CPCSEA, GLP at all times in the facility.
• Co-coordinating animal imports and quarantine procedures with stakeholders.
• Supervision and training of team members including of laboratory animal care technicians
• Participate in design / review of research protocols and involvement in studies.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available to conduct day-to-day operations.
• Support continuous improvement process in the vivarium
• Biosecurity and maintenance of SPF animals including sentinel program.
• Supporting Attending Veterinarian (AV) and facility veterinarians on daily operations.
• Responsible for capacity utilization, excellence in vivarium maintenance by increased efficiency
• Motivation towards outreach efforts, publications and continuing educational programs.

Syngene Values

All employees will consistently demonstrate alignment with our core values

•  Excellence
•  Integrity
•  Professionalism

Specific requirements for this role

Experience

• 0-3 years

Skills and Capabilities:

• Proficiency in laboratory animal science and management.

• Health monitoring program and outbreak management.

• Support animal imports and quarantine procedures.

• Knowledge in Regulatory guidelines.

Education

• MVSC