Petbarn
Part time Pet Academy Trainer - Wetherill Park Petbarn
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Petbarn, Australasia's Leading Pet Specialty Retailer
Petbarn, Australasia's leading pet specialty retailer, has over 240 locations throughout Australia and New Zealand. For over 30 years, customers have come to Petbarn for exceptional products, outstanding service, the best advice, and an experience second to none! We have exciting career opportunities for people with the right stuff, and who love pets!
Part-Time Dog Trainer Opportunity in Wetherill Park
We are looking for an extremely friendly Dog Trainer to work on a part-time basis in our Wetherill Park Petbarn store.
The Successful Candidate Will Have
- Passion for animal behaviour and training. Positive reinforcement-based training experience or qualifications are highly regarded.
- Commitment to the care of pets
- Public speaking and presentation experience
- High integrity, and be highly motivated and proactive
- Composure under stress and pressure
- The ability to communicate with clients of all pet experience levels with ease
- Ideally some retail experience working with a high volume, disciplined retailer
- Strong customer service orientation
- Ability to work within a team
- Animal studies qualifications will be highly regarded
- A commitment to ongoing learning and improvement in the field of science-based animal training.
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Key Responsibilities
Your primary role will be delivering dog training classes and one on one dog training. Your initial onboarding will also include retail training and store procedures as well as in-depth training of our Pet School classes and operations.
- Must be reliable, determined to meet high standards, flexible regarding working days and hours, and able to work unsupervised.
- Must be able to work on weekends.
- Must be willing to deliver the pet training content as provided to you to remain within our animal welfare and ethics guidelines.
- Must undertake regular paid training sessions with our senior Trainers to refresh and improve your skills.
- Must be physically fit and capable so as to handle dogs of all sizes as reasonably expected of the role.
- May be required to lift heavy items up to 20kg (e.g., bags of dog food).
- In your training role, you will likely be required to work with species other than dogs in the future (i.e., kitten/cat and aquatic classes).
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We are looking for people who want to grow with the business and who are determined to work with a team to achieve results.
We're looking for motivated and talented people who enjoy what they do and thrive in a training and sales environment. If you share our love for the pet parents we serve, the merchandise we sell, and the work we do, this is a place for you to build a rewarding career.
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