Job Description

Posting number: 202400689

Department: Fire

Division: Animal Services

Job classification: Veterinarian - Animal Services

Posting type: Open

Categories: Animal Control, Animal Services

Summary

The City of Midland is seeking a compassionate and skilled Veterinarian to serve as the medical backbone of our modern, state-of-the-art Animal Services facility. In this vital role, you’ll provide high-quality care, perform life-changing spay/neuter surgeries, and help shape progressive shelter practices that put animal wellness and community safety first.

From collaborating with a dedicated team to mentoring staff and supporting community outreach, your work will have a direct, meaningful impact—both inside the shelter and beyond. With a compressed schedule, modern surgical suite, and retention incentives including student loan reimbursement, this is more than a job—it’s a chance to build a career of purpose.

Step into a role that changes lives—apply today.

Examples of duties

• Performs daily rounds and evaluates the health and welfare of the animals in the shelter.
• Meets with staff to discuss animal health issues and preventive health measures.
• Provides timely preventative care, diagnostic procedures, triage, and general medical and basic surgical treatment of all animals in the shelter.
• Provides high quality sterilization surgery on shelter population.
• Orders, issues, and administers drugs and medical supplies in compliance with federal, state, and local requirements.
• Develops, coordinates, and implements preventive health surveillance, analysis, and nutrition programs.
• Manages the surgery suite; manages inventory of equipment and supplies in the surgery suite.
• Exercises independent judgment within broad policy guidelines; interprets concerns, defines desired results and determines scope and priorities of veterinary programs and special projects.
• Supervises, prioritizes, assigns tasks and projects; trains staff; develops staff skills and meets regularly with staff to discuss and resolve workload and technical issues.
• Coordinates operations with external partners and other public and private agencies. Works with the Animal Services Manager in budget planning.
• Monitors and reviews trends in shelter operations and health management issues; recommends operational, procedural, and policy improvements.
• Supports the relationship between the City of Midland and the general public by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with citizens, visitors, and City staff; maintains confidentiality of work-related issues and City information; performs any and all other duties as needed or assigned.
• Performs necropsies.
• Assists with planning and participates in low-cost vaccination clinics.
• Administers the rabies control program.
• Vaccinates all animals not currently vaccinated against rabies prior to their release when vaccination is appropriate and certifies all animals released from quarantine observation as being free from rabies.
• Knowledge of the principles of infectious disease presentation, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management including but not limited to: URI, kennel cough, panleukopenia, parvo, distemper, other infectious causes of diarrhea, ringworm, common internal parasites, common external parasites, FIP, FeLV, FIV, and rabies.
• Knowledge of general principles of vaccinations in developing vaccination protocols focusing on vaccinations for common shelter conditions.
• Provides staff training relevant to animal husbandry, humane animal handling, sanitation and disease control, basic animal behavior, medical care, surgical support and first aid for animals.
• Evaluates sick and injured animals for most humane treatment/disposition.
• Assists in the training and performance of proper euthanasia of animals by injection.
• Establishes and implements written medical treatment protocols for the shelter environment.
• Ability to interpret radiographs.
• Ability to provide emergency medical care, stabilization, diagnosis, and treatment of ill and injured animals brought to the shelter.
• Ability to interpret local ordinances, statutes, rules, regulations, and city policies pertaining to animal services.
• Ability to input animal records into computer to requisition and control euthanasia drugs in accordance with all applicable state and federal regulations and laws. Knowledge of drug classifications, rules, and regulations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
• Ability to stay abreast of new trends and innovations in animal sheltering.
• Able to attend advisory board meetings and staff meetings.

Qualifications

Ability to sit, stand and drive a vehicle to and from various work sites. Employee may be exposed to extreme temperatures. Employee also may work around potentially hazardous chemicals or dangerous animals. Ability to lift bags of materials such as dog food or animals.

Supplemental information

Required Contacts:

Employee communicates with other employees in the work group and will respond to questions from the general public regarding ordinances, Animal Services, or animals. Will interact with Texas Animal Control Association, National Animal Control Association, Texas Department of Health, other animal control organizations, local SPCA, news media, veterinarians, Texas Parks and Wildlife and other city officials.Required Qualifications:

• Must be a graduate from an accredited college or university with a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
• Must have a license to practice veterinary medicine in the State of Texas.
• 3 Years of experience preferred, but NOT required.
• Certifications Required: Required License to practice veterinary medicine in the State of Texas and valid Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) registration certificate (Schedule 2, 2N, 3, 3N, 4, 5).
• Valid Class C Driver's License required.
• Ability to read and understand complex items such as literature, proposals, legal documents, financial documents, contracts, technical items, and detailed reports.
• Advanced level of math with the ability to apply fundamental concepts of theories, work with advanced mathematical operations methods, and functions of real and complex variables.
• Ability to write editorials, journals, speeches, manuals, or critiques.