Animal Control Officer

Classification Purpose

Protects the health, safety, and welfare of animals in Miami County through monitoring and enforcing Ohio Animal Laws. Assists in maintaining the Miami County Animal Shelter through daily Animal Control Officer duties.

Under general direction, conducts door‑to‑door residential checks for valid dog licenses, observes, seizes, and impounds animals (e.g., lifts, loads, transports, and unloads animals), receives calls and complaints regarding stray, hostile, injured, or sick animals, communicates with the general public and with co‑workers.

Interprets and implements animal control laws, observes violations and issues warnings and citations, presents testimony in court, investigates claims regarding damage to livestock and assists claimants in completing necessary documentation. Administers injections to animals, administers methods of euthanasia upon passing state certification class for injection of euthanasia by following approved methods and utilizing approved equipment.

Performs custodial tasks involving physical labor and use of equipment (e.g., scraper, hot water hose, squeegee, broom, disinfectant chemicals, etc.), lifts and moves feed bags, litter bags, animals, supplies, and equipment weighing up to fifty (50) pounds, assists other employees in lifting heavier weights, provides food and water to animals in the shelter.

Prepares accurate and concise reports, issues dog licenses, files and retrieves records, collects fees, answers questions from general public. Answers phones, performs other various clerical tasks.

Meets all job safety requirements and all applicable OSHA safety standards that pertain to essential functions.

Demonstrates regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.

• Knowledge of safety practices, human relations, Miami County or other local government structure and process.
• Skills in transcription, use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, and equipment operation of standard office equipment, including but not limited to telephones, calculators, copiers, and fax machines.
• Ability to carry out simple instructions, interpret and carry out a variety of instructions in various formats, recognize unusual or threatening conditions and take appropriate action, deal with problems involving several variables in unfamiliar context, apply principles to solve practical, everyday problems, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, recognize and apply safety warnings, comprehend and add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, calculate fractions, decimals and percentages, complete routine forms, maintain accurate records, prepare meaningful, concise, and accurate reports, gather, collate, and classify information about data, people, or things, work as part of a team, answer routine telephone inquiries, sensitive inquiries and complaints from officials and the general public, demonstrate agility, demonstrate strength to lift up to 100 lbs, demonstrate strength to move objects from one location to another.

Completion of four (4) years of high school or equivalent supplemented by more than one (1) year’s experience or training in the control and care of animals.

• Must possess a valid Ohio driver’s license.
• Must possess a certification for injection of euthanasia, or obtain within one (1) year of employment.

May require the occasional direction of helpers, assistants, seasonal employees, interns, or temporary employees.

Must regularly stand, walk, sit, drive, use hands to finger, handle, grab, restrain, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. Employee is required to run, jump, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and must frequently lift and/or carry up to fifty (50) pounds on a regular basis and over one hundred (100) pounds on an occasional basis.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Must be able to work with and be around…