Animal Shelter Technician
Pay Range: $18.00 - $19.88/hr. | $37,440 - $41,347 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, February 26, 2026📅
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
An Animal Shelter Technician position is available with The City of Fort Worth Code Compliance department. This position will represent the City of Fort Worth by providing professional, courteous, quality of care for animals at our Alliance PetSmart Charities Everyday Adoption Center. This position functions as an adoption councilor at the Everyday Adoption Center to facilitate animal care, adoptions and customer service measures.
The selected individual must be an effective communicator who is able to demonstrate diplomacy, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills while working with a culturally and ethnically diverse staff, volunteer, and community base.
- This is a Full-Time position, with benefits, working a minimum of 40 hours, subject to mandatory overtime.
- In order to be considered you must submit complete resume
- This position requires the availability to work weekends, holidays, evening shifts and/or extended hours based on operational needs.
- In order to be considered you complete and pass the City’s Defensive Driving course.
- This position may require you to travel to various locations.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED
- No prior experience
- Valid Texas Driver's License
Preferred Qualifications:
- Six (6) months of experience in animal handling, animal health and animal behavior in domestic animals
- Six (6) months of customer service experience
- Bilingual skills
- Proficient in use of PetPoint shelter software system
The Animal Shelter Technician position assigned to the City of Fort Worth’s PetSmart Adoption Center’s job responsibilities include:
- Feeding, watering, cleaning after and caring for animals in and around existing quarters
- Performing administrative duties, which include verifying animal ID numbers in PetPoint, answering phones, providing public information
- Facilitating intake/outcome processes
- Maintaining a good working relationship with partnering agencies, volunteers and fosters
- Driving City vehicles to transport animals from multiple locations as assigned
- Monitoring animals for any medical/behavioral issues
- Assessing animals and completing blood work and vaccinations
Candidate selected for hire must pass Pre-Employment Drug Screen, Physical and Criminal Background check.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing, balancing, pushing, pulling and lifting; depending on assignment. Incumbents may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, odors, dusts, poor ventilation.
Heavy Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly having to move objects.
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Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.