Animal Services Manager Job Vacancies in New Zealand 2024 | Wellington Region Jobs
The Opportunity Following the resignation of a longstanding and key member of our client’s Quality Control team, they are looking for an experienced Animal Services Manager will oversee the Animal Services department. A key role for the business, this leadership position manages and mentors a passionate team of 15 staff members comprised of animal management, laboratory, and facilities management staff. Along with the team, the role is responsible for covering animal husbandry, breeding, and research.
The successful incumbent will manage all day-to-day issues as the primary senior person onsite. This will include ensuring that all planned production and scheduling requirements are met, oversight of site maintenance and any relevant equipment. The AS Manager will also ensure the strict compliance of facilities and procedures to corporate and statutory guidelines and regulations. The incumbent will also work closely with other department managers to ensure timely completion of scheduled operations.
This is a full-time role, working 40 hours per week. The nature of animal work, however, will require flexibility to attend to duties outside of working hours on some occasions.
Tasks will include but are not limited to
- Management of the sites annual and capital budgets.
- Ensuring suitable resources are requested / planned as appropriate to meet business objectives.
- Management of all staff training, scheduling, and development.
- Ensuring the sites facilities, procedures, and services, are compliant with relevant legislation, and regulations (e.g., GMP, GxP, Animal Welfare Act, MPI Quarantine Containment, Resource Management Act, Prescription Animal Remedy Use etc.)
- Providing assistance in regulatory audits and inspections.
- Actively contributing to the Animal Ethics Committee
- Ensuring the completion of corrective actions issued through internal, external, GAP or review audits.
- Assisting with product registrations as required
- Arranging and scheduling service contracts as required for site maintenance / development.
- Oversight of site EHS compliance, documentation, and training.
- Project management as required.
You, the Candidate
You may come from a veterinary, animal husbandry, or farming background, but you will have good experience with the care and husbandry of animals. Bringing strong people leadership skills and a strategic, forward-thinking approach to site management, you will be a self-sufficient and independent leader with a passion for animal welfare.
Ideally, you will also have the following skills and attributes
- A tertiary qualification in science (veterinary, animal, biological sciences preferred)
- Extensive experience in animal breeding, husbandry, and animal facility management (10+ years’ experience highly preferred)
- Knowledge of animal ethics requirements
- In depth understanding of GMP / GLP / Laboratory Quality Management Systems
- People management experience
- Understanding of vaccine or pharmaceutical manufacturing (highly preferred)
Please note this site is not accessible via public transport, so it is critical that you have your own means of transport.
Who We Are
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our Company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What We Look For
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group.
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