Veterinary Assistant - Bovine

Veterinary Assistant – Bovine

Elgin Veterinary Hospital

Elgin, TX

Full-time: Monday–Friday 8am-5pm

About You

You are dependable, detail-oriented, and enjoy hands-on work in a fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable working around large animals and take pride in supporting a team that delivers high-quality care to cattle, goats, and sheep. You’re organized, proactive, and willing to jump in wherever needed—from lab work and surgery prep to maintaining a clean and safe facility. You have experience with bovine and small ruminants and are confident assisting with animal handling and restraint.

Your Experience & Skills

What You’ll Do

• Clean, disinfect, and prepare surgical instruments and surgery packs (sterilization/pack assembly)
• Maintain and manage medical and facility inventory, including ordering and restocking supplies
• Assist in running in-house lab work, including bloodwork and fecal testing
• Perform basic husbandry tasks (feeding, cleaning, maintaining animal areas)
• Assist with safe animal restraint during exams and procedures
• Support veterinarians and technicians during procedures and treatments
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment (treatment areas, lab, barn/facility)
• Ensure proper handling, storage, and labeling of lab samples
• Follow all safety protocols and biosecurity measures

Required Qualifications

• Experience working with livestock or large animals (bovine/cattle and small ruminants preferred)
• Ability to safely assist with animal restraint in a clinical or farm setting
• Comfortable performing physical tasks in indoor and outdoor environments
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Ability to follow protocols for sterilization, lab procedures, and biosecurity
• Reliable, team-oriented, and willing to learn
• Basic computer skills for inventory or record tracking

Physical and Schedule Requirements:

• Physical Requirements: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and safely assist in the movement, positioning, and restraint of bovine patients (typically 1,000+ lbs) using proper equipment, team support, and established safety protocols, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to stoop, bend, and stand for extended periods of time as required by the role, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Work Environment: Ability to perform essential job functions outdoors in varying weather conditions (including heat, cold, rain, and icy conditions), with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Schedule Requirements: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm.

You’ll Grow with Us

Here, you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:

• Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
• Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills 
• A program designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital

And, with so many locations nationwide, you can find and move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment. Join us and provide your best care at a clinic that is deeply rooted within its community and bolstered by the resources of Thrive Pet Healthcare.

Benefits – our care in action

Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members’ emotional, physical, professional, and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance, and short- and long- term disability plans, we offer eligible team members:

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) with employer match
• Mental health resources, including easy access to therapy through Lyra Health
• Paid parental leave
• Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
• Subsidized backup childcare and elder care
• Expert advice, support and network discounts for fertility and family planning
• FREE CE courses
• Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
• Student loan support tools and assistance

*Some benefits shown are only for full-time team members who work 30 hours or more per week. Certain Benefits may be subject to waiting periods or length of service requirements.

About The Hospital

Elgin Veterinary Hospital is a Bovine and Equine emergency referral and primary care facility that offers the best medical and surgical treatments. 

About Thrive

Thrive Pet Healthcare creates the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners. Today, its network of 360+ primary, emergency, and specialty hospitals across the U.S. cares for pets of all ages and health needs, while portfolio companies provide tools and technology that help veterinary teams work smarter and deliver better care. Thrive invests in its people—through mentorship, leadership programs, continuing education, and well-being initiatives—so teams can grow and feel supported. For pet owners, convenient solutions such as a mobile app, digital booking, Thrive PlusTM membership, HereFurYou Helpline, an online pharmacy and flexible financial options* make accessing quality care simpler— giving families the peace of mind their pets deserve. Learn more at thrivepetcare.com.

We welcome you to join our story and join where #WeThriveTogether.