ANIMAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION DEPARTMENT
This full time position under limited supervision, performs a variety of duties divided between assisting the commissary stewards with daily responsibilities and performing hospital keeper responsibilities. Primary duties are related to care and feeding of Toledo Zoo hospitalized/quarantine animals and hospital facility upkeep and maintenance but also providing commissary support when other stewards are out. Work involves evaluation, preparing and distributing appropriate diets, cleaning of animal cages and hospital facility, obtaining, preparing and delivering food for animal consumption, observing hospitalized animals for signs of illness, injury or abnormal behavior, restraining animals, administering medications. Commissary duties include: packaging, driving, mixing and delivering food for collection animals. This position will require being able to work with all animal taxa. Position requires excellent observational skills, communication abilities – both written and oral, and be able to work both as part of a team and independently. Requires previous experience operating various types of machinery, including but not limited to fork lifts, pallet jacks, dishwasher, conveyor belts, computer and animal restraint devices.
Requires a high school diploma and one to two years of Zoo animal husbandry experience or an equivalent combination of education and training in animal science, zoology, biology or related field may be substituted for part of the experience requirements. Must have a valid drivers’ license and be insurable by the fleet insurance carrier.
The Zoo is an EOE and drug/alcohol free workplace with an attractive benefits and time off package with a starting hourly rate of $14.96 an hour. For consideration submit a resume utilizing to Julie Mutsko, HR Recruiting Manager no later than July 23, 2014.