Heavy Equipment/Grounds
Kanab, Utah / Hourly / Full time
The Best Friend's Mission is to do nothing short of making history by bringing about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets. Our goal is that every animal shelter in every community in the country be no kill in 2025.
The fact is, we have a great culture, populated by fun, dedicated, and brilliant people. But we're always looking for talented people who can help us make history, and that's where you come in. If you want to be a part of history and end the killing of pets in shelters, apply today for one of our open job opportunities!

Location: Kanab, Utah

Hiring Range: This position's hiring range is $20.00 - $24.00, plus great benefits.

Interviews will start on June 16th and occur weekly until the position is filled.
 

Position Summary: This position at times operates heavy equipment, dump trucks, water trucks, tractors in support of all maintenance activities. This position also performs various general labor activities including building and repairing fencing in support of sanctuary operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Treat people around you with Kindness and Compassion, build trust by demonstrating authenticity and following through on your commitments, prioritize your well-being like you do our mission, and work to build strong relationships with your colleagues by participating in communication loops to share and receive honest feedback. You are responsible and accountable for the culture you add to your team dynamic.
  • Performs routine inspection and preventive maintenance on equipment.
  • Digs trenches, removes snow, tears down buildings and other activities requiring heavy equipment.
  • Completes assigned work orders in a timely and professional manner while working with others within the group.
  • Operates, services, cleans, and cares for tools and equipment.
  • Performs a variety of physical labor as assigned.
  • Repairs and installs new fencing.
  • Maintain a safe workplace, valuing and modeling safe work practices, adhering to organizational safety practices and rules, and communicating about unsafe practices and conditions.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience:

  • Heavy equipment operating skills and experience preferred but will train qualified candidate.
  • Current CDL driver license (with clean driving record) and medical card required.
  • Work with a positive outlook, upbeat, flexible, energetic, and take initiative
  • Advanced knowledge of methods, tools, equipment, materials, and practices used in heavy equipment operations.
  • Ability to follow oral and written instructions; read and interpret equipment operations manuals; maintain records.
  • Valid driver’s license, with 3 years clean driving record.

Physical Requirements

  • Must be able to work out of doors in all weather conditions, with wide ranging temperatures
  • Work includes heavy lifting (typically up to 80 pounds)
  • Noise level in the work environment is usually loud
  • Prolonged periods of standing; stooping, reaching, crawling, and climbing; manual dexterity, coordination, agility, strength, and stamina.

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or domestic partner status.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. by Best Friends Animal Society.

Culture Statement and Responsibility
We value attitude over aptitude, and we treat kindness as a discipline because it is paramount in our culture along with our other guiding principles. Culture is how we talk to and treat ourselves and one another. It's how we generate and respond to change. It's how we plan and make decisions. It's how we do what we do.
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About Best Friends

Best Friends received a 2022 Top Workplaces USA award from Energage.

Visit the Best Friends Animal Society page on the Energage Top Workplaces award winners' site here to learn more. Not only do we take pride in cultivating a welcoming and supportive community and culture for our employees, but we also offer competitive benefits that make it easy to see why we were granted such an awesome award. We offer competitive pay including the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on performance. We offer medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short- and long-term disability, dependent care reimbursement, pet sitting reimbursement when traveling for work, flexible spending account, and health savings account. We offer generous paid time off, nine paid holidays annually, an auto insurance discount, and legal and identity theft coverage.  For added well-being support, we offer pawternity leave for employees to have time to care for their personal pets, mental health support, and an employee assistance program. We also offer a generous 401(k) savings plan. Do you want to love where you work and help make history by ending the killing of pets in shelters? Look no further and apply today!

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or domestic partner status. Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. by Best Friends Animal Society.

 

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