Job Description
This Animal Control Officer I is responsible for monitoring and ensuring the health, sanitation, and feeding of animals within the shelter.

Essential Duties

Working with local authorities and senior officers responding to citizen complaints of stray, vicious, sick, injured, or diseased animals, and reported bite cases
Assisting in domestic animal and livestock cruelty and abandonment investigations
Maintaining logs on diseases, medications, and treatments as required by state and federal regulations
Assisting field officers with unloading, intaking, and relocating of animals
Processing the intake and adoption of animals, as well as the sanitization of their housing units
Administering medication to animals, and ensuring they are properly fed and hydrated
Assisting with the maintenance of animal medical and court records
Assisting the public with lost or adoptable animals
Assisting in conducting rabies quarantine checks and verifying quarantine requirements are met
Assisting in euthanizing animals, and other functions assigned to the euthanasia laboratory, as well as the preparation and transportation of specimens to the state lab for testing

Other Job Requirements/Information

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.

Grade
The grade for this position is A123. Salary will be dependent on education and experience.

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications in addition to the above minimum qualifications

One year of animal control experience
Euthanasia training
Asp Baton Certificate
Defensive Driving Certificate
Basic Chemical Capture training
Crematory training

For information related to position-specific essential duties, knowledge and skills, and physical requirements, please click here.

Note: The class specifications listed on this website are not the official class specifications for Gwinnett County and are subject to change.

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Welcome to Gwinnett County — one of America's fastest-growing counties for the past 20 years. Our dynamic and exciting county combines the best of big-city living with the comforts of the suburbs.

The county's population in 2000 was about 588,448 and we’ve only continued to grow since then, with the population expected to reach one million by the year 2022.

Gwinnett has many advantages, beginning with its location and road system. The county is just 45 minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and 30 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Thanks to this location, 80 percent of the U.S. population is within a two-hour flight. Georgia Highway 316 has been extended to Athens, reducing travel time to the University of Georgia to 25 minutes. Gwinnett's infrastructure includes more than 2,750 miles of roadways to provide excellent mobility for our residents.

The County Administrator and County Attorney are appointed by the Board of Commissioners and serve at its pleasure. To implement the Board's policy directives, the County Administrator uses a management team consisting of members of his immediate staff and 14 department directors. The 14 departments that make up the executive side are Police Services, Fire and Emergency Services, Corrections, Communications, Support Services, Financial Services, Community Services, Human Resources, Information Technology Services, Law, Planning and Development, Water Resources, Child Advocacy & Juvenile Services, and Transportation. Each department is run by a director who is charged with managing operations in a manner which stresses the County’s values.

In addition to the executive side of County government, certain services are provided through Constitutional officers and independent elected officials. These external offices are created by the Georgia Constitution or through state law. In Gwinnett, they include the Sheriff, Tax Commissioner, District Attorney, Solicitor, Probate Court Judge, and Chief Magistrate.

Vision
Gwinnett is the preferred community where everyone thrives!

Mission
Gwinnett proudly supports our vibrantly connected community by delivering superior services.

Values
Integrity: We believe in being honest, building trust, and having strong moral principles.
Accountability: We believe in stewardship, transparency, and sustainability.
Equity: We believe in fairness and respect for all.
Inclusivity: We believe in engaging, embracing, and unifying our communities.
Innovation: We believe in continual adaptation of technology, process, and experience.

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Gwinnett County is committed to creating a diverse workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information (including sex), race, color, national origin (including ancestry), gender (identity and expression), sexual orientation, age, marital status, familial status (including pregnancy), disability, military or veteran status, religion, political affiliation, immigration status, homeless status, or any other category protected by law.

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