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Caldwell ZooZoo

Reptile Keeper

Location

Tyler, Texas, United States

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full Time

Experience

1-3 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

12h ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This role involves the daily care and maintenance of assigned reptiles and their exhibits, including cleaning, monitoring animal health, and assisting with veterinary treatments. The keeper will also engage with zoo visitors, providing information and ensuring a positive experience.

Job Summary: Provides daily care and maintenance of assigned animals and their exhibits by performing the following duties.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Cleans and disinfect animals’ enclosures and all equipment and tools associated with maintaining a safe and sanitary environment for the animals to live in on a daily basis.

  • Checks exhibits and animal enclosures cleanliness as well as safety and structural soundness on a daily basis. Takes appropriate steps to remedy existing or potential problems.

  • Keeps records including behavioral observations, veterinary treatment logs, diet records, and animal transfer data.

  • Carries out veterinary treatments as prescribed by the veterinarian.

  • Understands and participates in behavioral enrichments activities, training and conditioning procedures or protocols, and capture and restraint procedures.

  • Recognizes proper animal diets and abnormalities in diets and animal feeding habits.

  • Responds to questions from zoo visitors concerning animals’ habits and zoo operations in a helpful, friendly, courteous and informative way and make efforts to make visitors experience a positive one.

  • Follows all safety policies and rules.

  • Assists in training new keepers.

Job Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree (BS) or equivalent from four-year college or university in Biology or Animal Science related field preferred. 1 year experience and/or training, or Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and the ability to speak effectively to visitors or employees of the zoo.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve common sense understanding to carry out instructions and/or effectively and safely apply animal and zoo operation knowledge to new changing situations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Valid Texas Driver License

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear and taste or smell. Employee must be capable of moving quickly and good hearing and vision are necessary for safely performing the duties of this job. Employees are occasionally required to stack hay bales weighing in excess of 80 pounds.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, extreme cold and extreme heat, and dangerous animals. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. In some cases employees are exposed to foul odors and/or dust.

Updated 12h ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Animal Husbandry • 1+ yrs
Exhibit Maintenance • 1+ yrs
Record Keeping • 1+ yrs
Veterinary Treatment Assistance • 1+ yrs
Behavioral Enrichment • 1+ yrs
Animal Training • 1+ yrs
Problem Solving • 1+ yrs
Visitor Engagement • 1+ yrs

Experience

1-3 years

Certifications

Valid Texas Driver License • Required

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Operations

Industries

Wildlife & Conservation

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Dental Insurance
Health Insurance
Vision Insurance

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationTyler, Texas, United States
Work typeOnsite
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium6/10
physicalHigh9/10
cognitiveMedium7/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityMedium6/10
uncertaintyMedium7/10
communicationMedium7/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Caldwell Zoo

Team size

Growing team

Location

Tyler, Texas, United States

Caldwell Zoo provides daily care and maintenance for a variety of animals and their exhibits, offering educational and engaging experiences for visitors.

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Reptile Keeper

Tyler, Texas, United StatesFull Time