Part-Time Animal Nutrition Center Technician

Aza•Birmingham, AL

65d

About The Position

The Animal Nutrition Center Technician is responsible for the preparation and delivery of prescribed animal diets. Ensures food safety and maintains USDA and AZA compliance and standards.

Responsibilities

Prepares animal diets as directed.
Delivers diets, including hay bales, to the various collection areas as directed.
Cleans and maintains the nutrition center according to procedures and USDA and AZA standards.
Accurately maintains necessary records and helps document inventory, including relaying to manager if inventory is running low.
Communicates problems, issues or concerns as it relates to the collection, staff or public to the manager, curator, or a member of senior staff.
Performs manual labor to include moving for both storage and delivery feed bags, boxes of meat and fish, hay bales, and shavings.
As a team, responsible for paying attention to expiration dates and rotating inventory to prevent having expired food.
Helps offload deliveries to the zoo.
Engages and interacts with Zoo visitors/guests concerning Zoo operations, education and conservation.
Helps with Behind the Scenes and VIPs in the Nutrition Kitchen.
Assists with training of new staff, volunteers, and interns when requested.
Follows established protocols.
Other duties as assigned such as collecting browse, creating food enrichment, caring for feeder colonies, etc.