Animal Care Technician I

Company: City of Brownsville
Location: Brownsville
Posted on: June 9, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY: The City of Brownsville is in a transformative period driven by significant public and private investments such as the expansion of the Brownsville-South Padre Island Airport Terminal, Space X, the Port of Brownsville, Downtown Revitalization, and quality of life enhancements.

Our ideal candidate for Animal Care Technician l aspires to be a model of innovation, inclusion and empowerment who enables bold people and ideas to thrive. The Animal Care Technician l will be a participatory leader: a results-oriented, relationship-building, self-aware team player who also possesses high integrity, politeness, and fostering trust by building relationships with tolerance, patience and support in order to provide the best value in service of the citizens of Brownsville.

The purpose of the class is to perform the tasks of caring for impounded animals and maintaining the City Animal Shelter.

COMPETENCIES:

• Effective Communications Skills
• Animal Care and Nutrition
• Animal Handling and Restraint Skills
• Animal Behavior

KEY FUNCTIONS/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Requires copying, transcribing, entering, or posting data information.
• Requires serving others such as customers; attends to their request and exchanging information with them.
• Requires handling or using machines, tools, or equipment such as computers for data entry, catch poles, syringes for injections, DEA regulated drugs, and others as needed.
• Requires performing semi-routine work with occasional problems.
• Requires performing mathematical formulas used to mix chemicals such as cleansers, disinfectants, and DEA regulated drugs.
• Requires reading basic sentences, instructions, or work orders; writing simple sentences and completing uncomplicated job forms; speaking sentences using basic grammar.
• Requires clerical or manual tasks prescribed by standard practices, but which may require computation, several procedures, and independent judgment with obvious choices; require normal attention for accurate results.
• Requires being responsible for guiding others, requires a few decisions affecting a few co-workers; works in a stable environment with clear and uncomplicated written/ oral instructions, but with some variation from the routine.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Communicates with the public in a positive manner.
• Performs routine work of sheltering and caring for impounded animals, and completes all the necessary paperwork.
• Cleans and disinfects inside and outside of all kennels, and is responsible for the general cleaning building and premises.
• Performs routine spot cleaning building and premises.
• Feeds and waters all animals daily.
• Inspects animals on a routine basis, gives shots, bathes, dips and cares for animals to include daily walking.
• Assists in euthanasia of animals as necessary.
• Performs related tasks as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires high school diploma, or GED.
• Valid Texas Drivers License.
• Must obtain before the end of probationary period: Animal Care Training Certificate, Animal Control Certification, and Animal Euthanasia Technician Certification.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:

• Requires minimum three months of work related experience.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENT:

• Requires medium work that involves walking, standing, stooping, or lifting all of the time, exerting between 20 and 50 pounds of force on a recurring basis, exceptional skill, adeptness, and speed in the use of fingers, hands and limbs in tasks involving very close tolerances or limits of accuracy.

ADA COMPLIANCE:

The City of Brownsville is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the City to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

BENEFITS:

The City of Brownsville participates in a generous retirement plan with retirement opportunities available at 5 or 20 years of continuous service. The City has an exceptional employee and family medical and dental insurance plan. Employees may also contribute to deferred compensation plans from AXA Equitable or supplemental insurance plans from AFLAC and Colonial Life. Full time employees have the opportunity to accumulate 10 sick days and 10 annual days per year. Additionally, the City of Brownsville observes 12 holidays annually.

EEO STATEMENT:

The City of Brownsville does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.

Nothing in this job description restricts organization's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time in order to develop our employees; This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions, it does not prohibit or restrict the tasks that may be assigned; this job description is subject to change at any time.

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