Pet Bather

The bather’s responsibilities include bathing animals of various sizes and temperaments. Pet bathers will treat all animals with the utmost love and care. This is a service-related industry and you should be skilled at customer service and achieving the satisfaction of our customers and our furry friends. To be successful in this role, you should be able to comply with pet owners' instructions as well as accommodate any special requests they may have while treating all animals with the utmost love and care.

Duties and responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 Bathing, conditioning, and drying pets

 Trimming pets’ nails, brushing their teeth, and cleaning their ears

 Identifying health issues in pets, such as ear infections, skin conditions, or tooth decay, and informing pet owners of these observations

 Ensuring that all pets are safe during the bathing process

 Focuses on safe and gentle handling.

 Routinely cleaning workstation

 Ensuring a safe environment for yourself, the team, and the pets

 Recommending suitable products to pet owners

 Other duties as assigned

Skills and Qualifications

 High School diploma or equivalent

 Passionate about pets

 Exceptional understanding of all dog breeds, personality traits, and safe animal handling skills

 An expert understanding of the grooming processes, including specifics related to breed styling

Working conditions

 This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

 The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.

 The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. Physical requirements

 The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

 Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction

 Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.

 Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

 Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

 Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

 Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound

 Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

 Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force

frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $14.50 - $15.50 per hour

Compensation package:

• Tips

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Weekends as needed

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Work Location: In person