TES Farm Animal Assistant

Auburn University•Auburn, AL

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is seeking applicants for a TES Farm Animal Assistant for the J. T. Vaughan Large Animal Teaching Hospital. This position provides technical support to veterinarians diagnosing and treating food and fiber producing species including training on topics such as animal husbandry, nutrition, handling, restraint, and ethology within the College of Veterinary Medicine. Temporary Employment Services (TES), a unit of the Auburn University Department of Human Resources, is an in-house support center established to meet the temporary employment needs of the university. TES provides qualified and dedicated temporary employees in a wide variety of occupations to meet the staffing needs throughout the campus. Temporary employees are hired for a variety of reasons with the most common being: Assistance in the place of a regular employee who is absent for a specified period of time Additional assistance during periods of abnormal or peak workloads Assistance with special projects Seasonal work Emergencies If you are looking for an employment opportunity, TES is a great way to showcase your professional skills and assist Auburn University while gaining valuable work experience within higher education. AU students are not eligible for TES.

Requirements

Can be a combination of education and experience listed below.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Experience handling and managing food animals safely.
Veterinary assistant/technician experience
Farm animal experience
Large animal experience
Animal science degree, or any related fields/degrees.

Responsibilities

Assist with the instruction of veterinary students in completing an initial exam, catheter placement, oral intubation, routine hoof trims, animal handling (primarily cattle, small ruminants, swine, camelids & large exotics), animal behavior, surgical preparation, fluid therapy, usage of equipment used in performing medical procedures.
Provide direct patient care, including but not limited to, physical exams, administration of medications/vaccinations, catheter placement, oral intubation, collection of biomedical samples, administration of fluid/blood/plasma therapy, case monitoring.
Maintain an adequate floor stock through ordering of supplies, restocking, and perform routine cleaning of hospital barns, lab equipment, research facilities, and ambulatory vehicles.
Communicate with clients with concerning patients.
Assist with the preparation for medical procedures, including surgeries, by gathering supplies, preparing surgical fields, nerve blocks, sedation protocols.
Operates, maintains, repairs, and clean animal handling equipment/laboratory/research/clinical equipment as needed to maintain proper functions of the services.
Performs routine laboratory procedures on biomedical samples, inspects facilities, equipment, and supplies daily, as well as observes health status of university and client owned animals, environmental conditions, temperature, and sanitation.
Ability to lift a minimum of 50 pounds and able to stand 3-6 hours at a time. Job will require frequent standing and walking as well as lifting heavy objects.
Transportation of livestock on university property requiring knowledge in proper use of trucks, trailers, tractors, forklifts and other farm equipment.
Livestock handling and restraint (included but not limited to: cattle, small ruminants, swine & camelids) with some large animal exotic handling and restraint.
Use of alley systems, manual chutes, hydraulic chutes, hydraulic tables and other large animal restraining equipment.
Assists clinicians on farm calls.
Responsible for organizing some animal housing, some feeding and over all care of livestock animals.