SHELTER ATTENDANT I

This position is responsible for the care of animals and to ensure clean and humane living conditions for all animals housed within the shelter. Position requires shift rotations, call-in after hours, weekends, holidays and working during State of Emergencies. Position requires exposure to heat and cold on a daily basis.

• Maintains kennels and outside areas in a clean and sanitary manner. • Feeds and waters animals daily according to schedules; monitors animals in the kennels on a continuous basis for sickness, injury, or death. • Receives animals being delivered to the shelter by officers and/or the public. Intakes and places them within the facility according to size, sex, needs and circumstances involved in their pickup; maintains strict accountability by keeping animals with their respective records. • Takes pictures of stray animals to publish on social media. • Bathes, dips, inoculates, clips, grooms, and provides minor first aid and lab tests to the animals. • Handles animals, some of which may be aggressive and/or dangerous. • Assists the public in search of a lost pet or when seeking to adopt a new one; maintains records pertaining to shelter operations as assigned, to include having potential adopters sign into the Constant Contact guest book prior to viewing animals. • Aids in the euthanasia process, such as holding, pulling, bagging and placing in freezer and/or in Animal Control truck. • Prepares list of kennel supplies and food. • Attends offsite adoptions events. • Recognizes signs of stress or disease in animals and immediately reports any sick or injured animals within the shelter to assigned supervisor. • Moves animals from temporary holding areas into appropriate kennels. • Compares intake reports to actual counts of animals within the shelter. • Repairs/maintains equipment. • Performs general housekeeping and yard duties. • Maintains simple to moderate written reports. • Maintains records/files. • Maintains animal shelter by performing various minor building and grounds maintenance tasks. • Attends and remains at work regularly and adheres to policies and procedures regarding absenteeism and tardiness. Provides adequate notice to higher management with respect to vacation time and leave requests. • Performs related duties as required, including working in other functional areas to equalize peak work periods or otherwise to balance the workload. • Operates a County vehicle to load and unload inedible waste and will be required to pick up store supplies such as feed, disinfectants and equipment. • May answer phones. • May operate radio equipment to dispatch assignments to field units. • Performs other related duties as assigned.

(These essential functions are not a complete statement of all duties required of the job. Employees will be required to perform such other related job duties as may be assigned or required.)