Animal Services Officer

About the role

The Animal Services Officer position in the City of Grand Prairie is responsible for enforcing environmental, animal, and housing codes. This includes conducting inspections, issuing citations, and supervising personnel.

Responsibilities

• Conducts inspections by patrolling the city for animal violations, investigating complaints, and responding to citizen complaints.
• Schedules regular inspections, tours buildings or properties, notes violations of code, locates owners, and ensures clean-up or animal care.
• Issues citations and violations by compiling inspection reports, preparing cases for the BAAB Board or court, executing warrants, and ensuring clean-up or animal care.
• Completes administrative duties by answering calls, providing information to the public and other departments, compiling reports, completing documents and forms, and maintaining records.
• Provides customer service to the public by developing and implementing community and school education programs, assisting other departments with community functions, and developing and implementing neighborhood incentives.
• Supervises personnel by observing and monitoring work tasks, functioning as a lead worker, providing guidance, instruction, and feedback.
• Performs departmental specific functions by attending the animal shelter, picking up strays and dead animals, providing adoption services, conducting euthanasia services, dispatching service calls, ensuring properties are cleaned up, and ensuring repairs are made to buildings or facilities.

Requirements

• Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with six months/one year of advanced study or training past the high school equivalency.
• Over two years of related experience.
• Valid Texas Class C Driver's License, Code Enforcement Officer License, Basic Animal Control Officer Certification, Certified Euthanasia Technician, Lead Visual Assessment Certification, Housing Quality Standards Certification.
• Ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias.
• Ability to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.

Qualifications

• Some high school, no diploma or GED.
• Some College, no degree.
• Technical or Trade School (Did not complete).
• Technical or Trade School (Completed).
• Associate's Degree.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Master's Degree.
• Doctorate Degree.

Skills

• Knowledge of animal control and housing codes.
• Ability to conduct inspections and issue citations.
• Customer service skills.
• Supervisory skills.
• Administrative and record-keeping skills.

Benefits

• The City offers a full range of benefits for full-time employees, including, but not limited to, the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide.

Pay

Competitive salaries are offered based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time schedule is provided.