Animal Care Specialist
3 weeks ago
Job Summary:
The City of Amarillo, Texas is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Animal Care Specialist to join our team. As an Animal Care Specialist, you will be responsible for the daily care and maintenance of assigned animals, exhibits, and grounds.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain daily care of assigned animals, including exhibit cleaning, diet preparation, and behavioral enrichment.
- Assist with the supervision of seasonal employees, volunteers, and interns.
- Participate in enrichment programs and assist with capturing, restraining, and moving animals as trained and directed.
- Maintain animal exhibits, including shoveling substrate, raking, mowing, planting, and trimming vegetation.
- Operate a variety of small tools and equipment to aid in maintaining exhibits and grounds.
- Assist with concrete work, fabrication work, painting, carpentry, and other construction job tasks as assigned.
- Identify minor or routine maintenance problems and correct them as assigned, or report other maintenance to the Zoo Curator and write discrepancies as necessary.
- Perform routine snow and ice removal during winter months.
- Interact positively with the public, providing information about the zoo and its animals, and assist with educational tours and presentations as assigned.
Requirements:
- General knowledge of animal biology and behavior.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment to evaluate animal health, diet, behavior, and any emergency situations that arise.
- Ability to drive gators, golf carts, pick-up trucks, and vans, and operate trailers and larger trucks up to one ton desirable.
- Skill in operating all types of equipment used in grounds maintenance, animal capture, and restraint.
- Ability to use basic hand tools for equipment and facility care.
- Ability to operate a variety of equipment, including a two-way radio, computer, telephone, and the like.
- Ability to work on a team and with volunteers.
- Skill in performing grounds and construction-related work is desirable.
- Ability to read and write.
- Ability to keep accurate records.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
The City of Amarillo is an Equal Opportunity employer and encourages applications from eligible and qualified persons regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information, or protected veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local law.
The City of Amarillo provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please contact the Human Resources Office at the City of Amarillo, Texas.
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