Animal Care Technician
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens
Charleston, south carolina
Magnolia Plantations & Gardens, one of the nation’s oldest and most frequented historical public gardens, is looking for a new Animal Care Technician for their Wildlife Center. This role is primarily responsible for utilizing operant conditioning techniques when caring for animals, providing guest engagement and education to visitors, animal enclosure and environment upkeep, and animal operations process creation.
What you will be doing:
- Interacting with guests and provide interpretation on species specific traits and adaptations in a positive and passionate manner
- Assisting with special events, tours, or animal encounters
- Performing daily husbandry duties for wide range of animal species including but not limited to reptiles such as snakes and alligators, birds of prey, carnivores such as bobcat
- Observing animal behavior to be able to interpret and distinguish signs of unusual behavior which may indicate illness/injury ...