Animal Control Officer

Job Description

The Animal Control Officer I will be provided training to ensure all animals are in good health, properly fed, watered, and issued any required medication. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring a disease‑free living environment by disinfecting cages. Officers assigned to field operations will work with local authorities when responding to citizen complaints of stray, vicious, sick, injured, or diseased animals.

• Assisting with maintaining various records on animals, up to and including processing intakes and adoptions, reviewing, and upkeeping of medical charts and records, and keeping records on animals held for court cases.
• Maintaining logs on all diseases, medications, and treatments as required by state and federal regulations.
• Assisting with investigating cruelty and abandonment of domestic animals and livestock.
• Working closely with senior officers to gather information used to prosecute violators.
• Assisting field officers in unloading, checking in and relocating animals in the shelter.
• Assisting the public with touring the shelter for lost or adoptable animals.
• Assisting with investigating reported bite cases.
• Assisting in conducting rabies quarantine checks and verifying quarantine requirements are met.
• Assisting in the decapitation, preparation, and transportation of specimens to the state lab for testing.
• Assisting in euthanizing animals and other functions assigned to the euthanasia laboratory.

• May assist with adoption and/or outreach events.

• This job is a safety sensitive position that will require a pre‑employment drug test and subsequent random drug and alcohol testing.
• This job may require on‑call rotation and emergency after hours, weekends, and/or holidays.

The grade for this position is A12(3). Salary will be dependent on education and experience.

Effective 4/11/2023, this position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.

• High school diploma, or G.E.D.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above will also be considered.
• Pre‑exposure Rabies vaccine or current titer completed within 6 months of employment.
• Valid driver's license.

• Proficient in English communication, capable of clear and professional verbal and written expression.

Gwinnett County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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