Pet Care Specialist

Ascending Pets; Salt Lake City (UT); Sur place; USD 26 000 - 32 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive hourly pay $19–$23

6 paid holidays and PTO

Free cremation for your own pets

Training from day one

Ground-floor opportunity

Meaningful work

Résumé du poste

Ascending Pets is a Lehi-based pet cremation and keepsakes company serving Utah’s communities. We help families say goodbye with dignity, through in-home euthanasia partnerships and compassionate care. Our team handles pickups, gentle care, and keepsakes, returning ashes and mementos with respect.

Join a front-line role with training from day one, offering meaningful daily work, a path to growth, and the chance to be among our first hires as we expand in Utah.

Qualifications

• Must be warm, calm and kind with grieving people.
• Comfortable handling pets after death with care and dignity.
• Reliable and able to follow procedures exactly.
• 18 or older with a valid driver’s license and clean driving record.
• Physically able to stand for long periods and perform occasional heavy lifting.
• Vet tech, kennel, shelter, or funeral service experience is a plus, not required.

Responsabilités

• Pickups: Drive our company vehicle to pet owner homes and partner clinics to bring pets into our care.
• The handoff: Explain to families what happens next in plain and kind words.
• Gentle care: Handle, tag, and identify each pet with dignity.
• Records: Keep careful records from pickup to return.
• Cremations: Run cremations following our procedures exactly.
• Keepsakes: Make ceramic paw prints and other keepsakes.
• Bringing them home: Return ashes and keepsakes to families and clinics with patience and care.

Connaissances

Warm demeanor

Comfortable with pet care

Steady under pressure

Careful and detail-oriented

Plainspoken communication

Road ready (18+)

Physically able (stand/lift)

Proven reliability

Description du poste

Ascending Pets is a pet cremation and keepsakes company in Lehi, serving Utah, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, and Summit counties. We started because this moment deserves more dignity and care. We believe that pets deserve a better goodbye. When the goodbye matters, pet owners call Ascending Pets.

Families come to us when a pet dies at home, when they choose in-home euthanasia, or through one of our partner vet clinics. One call, and we handle the rest. We explain every step, bring their pet home in days instead of weeks, and help them keep their pet close with keepsakes made from their own paw or nose print.

What you’ll do

About Ascending Pets

Ascending Pets is a pet cremation and keepsakes company in Lehi, serving Utah, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, and Summit counties. We started because this moment deserves more dignity and care. We believe that pets deserve a better goodbye. When the goodbye matters, pet owners call Ascending Pets.

Families come to us when a pet dies at home, when they choose in-home euthanasia, or through one of our partner vet clinics. One call, and we handle the rest. We explain every step, bring their pet home in days instead of weeks, and help them keep their pet close with keepsakes made from their own paw or nose print.

What you’ll do

• Pickups: Drive our company vehicle to pet owner's homes and partner clinics to bring pets into our care
• The handoff: Talk families through what happens next, in plain and kind words
• Gentle care: Handle, tag, and identify each pet with dignity
• Records: Keep careful records from pickup to return
• Cremations: Run cremations following our procedures exactly
• Keepsakes: Make ceramic paw prints and other custom keepsakes
• Bringing them home: Return ashes and keepsakes to families and clinics with patience and care

Who you are

• Warm: Calm and kind with grieving people
• Comfortable with the work: At ease caring for pets after they’ve died
• Steady: People count on you to show up and follow through
• Careful: Detail-minded and able to follow procedures exactly
• Plainspoken: You explain things in simple, honest words
• Road ready: 18 or older, with a valid driver’s license and a clean driving record
• Physically able: On your feet most of the day, and able to handle occasional heavy lifting
• Proven: You have a track record of great work at a job, in school, in sports, or in hobbies. Vet tech, kennel, shelter, funeral service, or delivery experience is a plus, but not required.

What you get

• $19–$23 per hour, with a pay review at 90 days
• 6 paid holidays and paid time off
• Free cremation for your own pets
• Training from day one, working right alongside the founder
• A ground-floor seat as one of the company’s first hires, with room to grow into a bigger role as we do
• Work that matters, every single day