Animal Care Technician
$29,120–$29,120 year
On-siteWichita, Kansas, United States
Job Summary
Provide safe, humane, and thorough handling and care for animals housed at the Kansas Humane Society, including sanitizing, cleaning, observing, and recording health and behavior. Implement infection prevention and shelter sanitation protocols to ensure all holding areas, supplies, and equipment are cleaned and sanitized regularly. Assist with and perform euthanasia in a safe, humane, and relaxing manner while maintaining appropriate disease control practices. Ensure animals are provided with necessary supplies and enrichment, and model timely, polite, and respectful internal and external customer service. Handle sick, injured, or deceased pets daily while adhering to strict hygiene standards and protective clothing requirements.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must have reliable transportation
- Must have good attendance history
- Ability to speak effectively and communicate clearly
- Able to hear average conversations
- Ability to use both hands for repetitive actions, firm grasp and fine manipulation
- Hands exposed to water and cleaning chemicals on a repetitive basis
- Ability to deal with a variety of variables under only limited standardization
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers and common fractions
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents
- Ability to communicate clearly
- Ability to cope with stress, loss/death/grief, emotional and physical fatigue, long hours, and a variety of different human personalities
- Must be comfortable handling dogs and cats on a daily basis
- Will handle sick, injured, or deceased pets
- Noise exposure varies and often includes barking and other animal vocalizations
- Animal waste contact, smells, and visual exposure
- Exposure to industrial cleaning supplies
- Repetitive motion above and below shoulder height (4- 8 hours daily)
- Repetitive hand scrubbing both at and above shoulder level (2 to 4 hours daily)
- Physical restraining of small and large animals 5lb to 100lb
- Pulled/jolted/jumped on by small and large animals 5lb to 100lb
- Lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, throwing of 5lb to 100lb
- Repetitive climbing of step ladder
- Repetitive stooping to pick up items
- Standing, walking, kneeling on hands and knees, crouching, crawling
- Close vision
- Color vision
- Peripheral vision
- Depth perception
- Ability to adjust focus
Desired Qualifications
- Customer service or caregiving background preferred
- Attention to detail
- Remain current in humane animal husbandry and handling
- Participate in training to assure the euthanasia process is carried out in a safe, humane, and as relaxing manner as possible
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