Facility
Big Bear Alpine Zoo
Closing Date
[jobclosingdate]
Description
The San Bernardino County Big Bear Park and Recreation is recruiting for an Animal Keeper to perform general and routine animal care tasks at the District’s Big Bear Alpine Zoo. Primary duties include feeding exotic animals, observing and documenting animal behavior, maintaining and cleaning animal enclosures, answering questions from the public, assisting with presentations, and performing light maintenance in and around animal enclosures.
This position is located in the mountain area of Big Bear, CA (approximately 1 hour/45 miles from downtown San Bernardino, CA).
Education and Pre-requisites
Option 1: 160 volunteer hours at Big Bear Alpine Zoo.
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Option 2: Six (6) months of experience providing animal care, feeding, exercising, observing/documenting behavior, and cleaning enclosures, in a zoo, hospital/clinic, wildlife rehabilitation center or similar facility. Primary experience must include care of a variety of wildlife/exotic animals or sick/injured animals.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Personal, non-work related experience such as taking care of pets, dog sitting, breeding animals, and/or working in facilities such as pet boarding or grooming is NOT considered qualifying experience.
Compensation and benefits
$16.26 – $22.46 Hourly
Application instructions
For more details, please review the announcement at www.sbcounty.gov/jobs.
Application can be made on-line – apply ASAP. (909) 387-8304 – EEO/ADA