For 75years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
We are currently recruiting for an Associate System Support Specialist to work in the Computer System Validation team (CSV), based at our world class facility in Tranent, East Lothian.
The Computer System Validation (CSV) team support the departments conducting scientific studies by managing their computer systems (instrumentation/equipment and software) to meet regulatory requirements. This will involve working collaboratively with scientific staff, IT and quality assurance to ensure strict regulatory expectations are met regarding the capture, processing and secure storage of electronic data, whilst providing a practical and user friendly system for scientific staff to conduct their work efficiently, effectively and with full trust and confidence in the data they produce.
The successful candidate’s role will be to help maintain current active computer systems, implement user access control requirements, troubleshoot reported errors, liaise with vendors etc. They will also ensure systems remain relevant and fully compliant through regular reviews. Completion and administration of documentation is an active part of the regular duties. The successful candidate will be expected to keep modernising and improving the compliance and usability of systems through introduction of new features in a controlled manner involving testing.
The minimum requirements for this role are:
* Ideally educated to a graduate level, preferable in a Scientific or Information Technology discipline but not essential.
* Candidates must be enthusiastic, proactive, organised, customer focused and have an analytical approach to problem solving.
* Experience of working in a regulated environment (GLP/GMP) preferred but not essential.
* Excellent communication skills and working seamlessly with different groups of people.
* Excellent computer system skills. (Excel, Word, etc.)
* Project Management skills and attention to detail
Salary for this role is £27,951.22 per annum.
Closing date: 17 March 2026
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