Veterinarian - Part Time

The City of Midland is seeking a compassionate and skilled Veterinarian to serve as the medical backbone of our modern, state-of-the-art Animal Services facility. In this vital role, you’ll provide high-quality care, perform life-changing spay/neuter surgeries, and help shape progressive shelter practices that put animal wellness and community safety first.

From collaborating with a dedicated team to mentoring staff and supporting community outreach, your work will have a direct, meaningful impact—both inside the shelter and beyond. With a compressed schedule, modern surgical suite, and retention incentives including student loan reimbursement, this is more than a job—it’s a chance to build a career of purpose.

• Performs daily rounds and evaluates the health and welfare of the animals in the shelter.
• Meets with staff to discuss animal health issues and preventive health measures.
• Provides timely preventative care, diagnostic procedures, triage, and general medical and basic surgical treatment of all animals in the shelter.
• Provides high quality sterilization surgery on shelter population.
• Orders, issues, and administers drugs and medical supplies in compliance with federal, state, and local requirements.
• Develops, coordinates, and implements preventive health surveillance, analysis, and nutrition programs.
• Manages the surgery suite; manages inventory of equipment and supplies in the surgery suite.
• Exercises independent judgment within broad policy guidelines; interprets concerns, defines desired results and determines scope and priorities of veterinary programs and special projects.
• Supervises, prioritizes, assigns tasks and projects; trains staff; develops staff skills and meets regularly with staff to discuss and resolve workload and technical issues.
• Coordinates operations with external partners and other public and private agencies. Works with the Animal Services Manager in budget planning.
• Monitors and reviews trends in shelter operations and health management issues; recommends operational, procedural, and policy improvements.
• Supports the relationship between the City of Midland and the general public by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with citizens, visitors, and City staff; maintains confidentiality of work-related issues and City information; performs any and all other duties as needed or assigned.
• Performs necropsies.
• Assists with planning and participates in low-cost vaccination clinics.
• Administers the rabies control program.
• Vaccinates all animals not currently vaccinated against rabies prior to their release when vaccination is appropriate and certifies all animals released from quarantine observation as being free from rabies.
• Knowledge of the principles of infectious disease presentation, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management including but not limited to: URI, kennel cough, panleukopenia, parvo, distemper, other infectious causes of diarrhea, ringworm, common internal parasites, common external parasites, FIP, FeLV, FIV, and rabies.
• Knowledge of general principles of vaccinations in developing vaccination protocols focusing on vaccinations for common shelter conditions.
• Provides staff training relevant to animal husbandry, humane animal handling, sanitation and disease control, basic animal behavior, medical care, surgical support and first aid for animals.
• Evaluates sick and injured animals for most humane treatment/disposition.
• Assists in the training and performance of proper euthanasia of animals by injection.
• Establishes and implements written medical treatment protocols for the shelter environment.
• Ability to interpret radiographs.
• Ability to provide emergency medical care, stabilization, diagnosis, and treatment of…