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Part Time+ Kennel Technician
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What they do
An Animal Care Worker or Manager manages animal care and grooming for a retail store that sells pets or for a pet grooming business. May also provide animal care and grooming at a kennel. Works with animals in shelters or rescue organizations. Works primarily with dogs and cats. Assists veterinarians with vaccinations or other procedures; screens people who want to adopt an animal from a shelter and provides information about caring for animals.
$39,426 / year median in California
+13% projected growth
Job Description
ABOUT US
Memorial Beach Veterinary Hospital is a privately-owned practice in Healdsburg, CA, built around high-quality, compassionate care. We value the bond between pets and their people — and we take pride in a team that is reliable, detail-oriented, and genuinely invested in doing this work well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT THIS ROLE IS REALLY ABOUT
We're looking for someone who takes ownership — who notices what needs to be done without being asked, follows through completely, and holds a high bar for both animal care and cleanliness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT YOU'LL DO
Provide attentive daily care for dogs, cats, and occasional exotic pets — feeding, exercise, bathing, and light grooming- Monitor closely for changes in behavior or health and communicate promptly with the medical team
- Administer medications as directed and assist veterinarians and technicians as needed
- Maintain a consistently clean, organized hospital — kennels, laundry, dishes, floors, and more
- Communicate clearly and professionally with clients and colleagues throughout the day ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Confident handling animals of all sizes and temperaments- Reliable and punctual — this is non-negotiable
- Strong attention to detail in both care and cleanliness
- Able to stay productive without close supervision
- Team-oriented with a positive, respectful attitude
- Able to lift 40+ lbs and stay active throughout shifts
- Basic computer and customer service skills
- Weekend and holiday availability required ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
SCHEDULE
Part-time, 8-hour shifts (typically 7:00 AM- 4:00 PM) rotating between 3-4 shifts per week
- weekend and holiday availability are a must ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PAY & BENEFITS
Starting at $17.50/hour- Health insurance
- 401(k) with matching
- Paid time off
- Employee discount
- Uniform allowance
- Professional development support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
EXPERIENCE
Entry-level. Animal care experience is preferred, but we will train the right person — someone with a strong work ethic and genuine attention to detail. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you take pride in doing things the right way, notice what others miss, and want to be part of a team that genuinely cares — we'd love to hear from you.Pay:
$17.50- $19.00 per hour Expected hours: 24.0
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