Parking/Animal Control Officer

• Skill in using standard office equipment, computer, measuring tools, tablet, scanner, camera, etc.
• Ability to document, review, analyze, and communicate, verbally and in writing, pertinent information regarding code enforcement.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships and use good judgement, initiative and resourcefulness when dealing with property owners, the public, other professional contacts, and municipal officials.
• Ability to critically assess situations, solve problems, and work effectively within deadlines, and changing work priorities.
• Ability to work efficiently with limited supervision.
• Ability to convey and understand information effectively and professionally through speaking, hearing, reading, and writing.
• Ability to gather and analyze data for the purpose of preparing accurate and timely reports, memoranda, letters, and responses to requests for information.
• Previous experience in an Animal Shelter or related field

While performing the duties of this job, this employee works in an office setting as well as at outdoor job sites. The employee frequently works by operating a motor vehicle, near moving mechanical parts, is regularly exposed to wet and slippery surfaces, humid conditions, extreme cold and heat; is occasionally exposed to exhaust fumes and toxic chemicals.

1. Minimum reasoning ability usually associated with this classification:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

1. Minimum Math ability usually associated with this classification:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure; to perform the four operations with like or common decimal fractions.

1. Minimum Language ability usually associated with this classification:

READ: Ability to read a variety of novels, and magazines; to read safety rules, instructions in the use and maintenance of shop tools and equipment, and methods and procedures.

WRITE: Ability to write reports and essays with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.

SPEAK: Ability to speak before individuals with poise, voice control, and confidence, using correct English and well modulated voice.

1. Two or more years of training, either on the job or formal education, usually associated with this occupation in addition to the Reasoning, Math and Language abilities detailed above.
2. Degree of physical demands (Strength) usually associated with this classification:

Heavy Work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

1. Type of Physical Demands usually associated with this classification:

Regularly use hands and fingers to handle, control or feel objects. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Squatting: lowering the body by bending leg.

Stooping: bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

Hearing - Perceiving nature of sounds by ear.

Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are:

1. Acuity, far - Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more.
2. Acuity, near - Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.
3. Depth Perception - Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships to see objects where and as they actually are.
4. Field of Vision - Area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point.
5. Accommodation - Adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This item is especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from eye.

f. Color Vision - Ability to identify and distinguish colors.