Animal Care Technician

Job Title

Job Duties:

• Cleans and maintains animal enclosures in a sanitary manner.
• Maintains overall shelter organization and cleanliness throughout the workday.
• Ensures that outside walkways and runs are clean.
• Provides the highest quality animal care through feeding, watering, socializing, and offering various forms of enrichment.
• Observes animals for signs of illness; monitors sick or injured animals and assists with vet-prescribed treatment.
• Assists the public with animal surrender or locating a lost pet.
• Assists the public with selecting a companion for adoption.
• Requires ability to read and understand standard operating procedures.
• Ability to stand for long periods; to bend, crouch, and/or kneel repeatedly; to lift and carry a minimum 50 pounds.
• Ability to read adoption contracts, registration cards, cage or kennel cards, and medical sheets or prescription dosage on medications for the animals.
• Ability to write adoption contracts, quarantine and euthanasia paperwork, complete registration cards and time slips.
• Ability to perform general math calculations.

Requirements:

• Associate's degree in veterinary technology, Veterinary Science, Animal Care, or a closely related field.