Animal Services Veterinary Technician

Veterinary Medical Technician

MOS Code: 64F (Army)

Education and Experience: Graduation from a Veterinary Medical Technician program or an Associate's Degree or higher in Animal Health, Biology, Zoology or related field or High School Diploma/GED and two (2) years of paraprofessional or technical animal health care experience assisting a veterinarian.

Licenses and Certificates: Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state by time of appointment. Euthanasia Technician Certification (Health and Safety Code Chapter 821) within the first year of employment (renewed every three (3) years).

General Purpose

Under general supervision, supervise daily clinic administration and participate in animal health care. Perform a variety of tasks to provide medical care and evaluations on shelter animals based on veterinarian protocols, direction, and recommendations.

Typical Duties

Provide animal health care. Involves: Deliver routine, surgical and critical animal health care under direction of veterinarian. Perform physical examinations, anesthesiology and radiology procedures. Immobilize animals for treatments, surgery, ultrasounds and endoscopy studies. Monitor vital signs during surgery and recovery. Oversee and care for animal hospital quarantine and necropsy areas. Handle and restrain animals for examination and treatment. Prepare and dispense prescribed medications and other pharmaceuticals. Monitor sanitation, schedule and oversee routine parasite control.

Oversee daily clinic administration. Involves: Participate in scheduling procedures and coordinate personnel resources. Compile and input data into the computerized medical records system. Coordinate international species inventory system record keeping with curatorial staff. Contact and correspond with other institutions regarding specific and unique clinical cases. Ensure maintenance, cleanliness and sterility of veterinary facilities. Prepare surgery room for surgery Order and maintain inventory control of medical supplies and veterinary drugs and supplies.

Perform, conduct and analyze tests. Involves: Perform test to provide data for research or diagnosis and treatment of disease in animals and its probable source. Direct or perform basic lab tests, such as cultures for bacteria, blood work, fecal analysis, tissue stains, urinalysis and related tests. Process and send samples to outside laboratories for blood work profiles, pathology, microbiology, and disease diagnosis. Perform necropsies of animals. Write and input data into medical records. Arrange for pathology lab consulting firms and disposition of remains.

Supervise assigned staff. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide training and development. Enforce personnel and safety rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.

General Information

For complete job specification, click here. Note: This is an unclassified contract position. Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received. Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit for more information.

A rsum and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as "See rsum" are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete. To qualify for this position, required education, experience, knowledge and skills must be clearly stated on your application's employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your rsum will eliminate you from consideration for the position.