Animal Shelter Technician

Job Description:

Animal Shelter Technician

Description

Pay Range: $18/hr. - $21.31/hr.

Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Workdays & Hours: This position requires the flexibility to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed. This is a Full-Time position working 40 hours a week, in addition this position may require you to travel to various locations.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

An Animal Shelter Technician job is available with the City of Fort Worth Code Compliance- Animal Care & Control Division. This position will represent the City of Fort Worth by providing professional, courteous, and quality of care for animals at our North Animal Campus and Chuck & Brenda Silcox Animal Care & Adoption Center. Our Animal Care and Control department has hundreds of animals under their care and control. This position will represent the City of Fort Worth by providing professional, courteous, and quality of care for animals in our animal shelter.

• This is a Full-Time position, with benefits, working a minimum of 40 hours, subject to mandatory overtime.
• In order to be considered you must submit complete resume
• This position requires the availability to work weekends, holidays, evening shifts and/or extended hours based on operational needs.
• In order to be considered you complete and pass the City’s Defensive Driving course.
• This position may require you to travel to various locations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• No prior experience.
• Valid Driver's License.
• Candidate selected for hire must pass Pre-Employment Drug Screen, Physical and Criminal Background check.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Six (6) months of experience in handling domestic animals.
• Six (6) months of customer service experience.
• Bilingual skills.
• Proficient in use of PetPoint shelter software system.

The Animal Shelter Technician job responsibilities include:

• Feed and water animals in and around existing quarters; clean, sanitize, maintain and repair animal quarters; prepare diets for animals as required. Clean kennel runs, cages, and shelter buildings.
• Document animal dispositions in a computer record keeping system. Enters animal identification and adoptions into system through Pet point.
• Assist the public looking for lost or adoptable pets, assist peers in moving animals, cleaning and feeding, checking in and relocating animals in the shelter.
• Perform humane euthanasia on terminally ill or aggressive animals as needed.
• Working with animals with varying types of behavior and at times some could exhibit aggressive behavior.
• Performs animal intake from public drop offs and animal returns, keep inventory of assigned area.
• Rotating animals in play yards. Sets up kennel with water and bedding.
• Performs other duties as required.

Working Conditions

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing, balancing, pushing, pulling and lifting; depending on assignment. Incumbents may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, odors, dusts, poor ventilation.

Physical Demand

Heavy Work - Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly having to move objects.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to 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, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.