Kennel Assistant | Animal Care Specialist
Rehm Animal Clinic – Timber Run | Loxley, AL
Love animals? Like staying busy? Want a job where every day is a little different?
Rehm Animal Clinic at Timber Run is looking for a dependable, hardworking Kennel Assistant to join our team in Loxley!
Our Kennel Assistants play an important role in caring for our boarding pets and hospitalized patients. You'll spend your day keeping pets safe, comfortable, clean, exercised, and well cared for while helping keep our hospital clean, organized, and running smoothly.
This is an active, hands-on job! You'll get dirty, clean a lot of kennels, work on your feet, handle animals of different sizes and temperaments, and sometimes care for pets who are sick, stressed, or recovering. But you'll also build relationships with some pretty awesome four-legged patients and learn a ton about veterinary medicine along the way.
If that sounds like your kind of work, keep reading!
What You'll Do
- Care for boarding and hospitalized pets
- Feed, walk, exercise, and monitor animals
- Administer medications as directed
- Recognize and report changes in behavior, appetite, or overall condition
- Maintain clean, sanitized kennels, runs, cages, and hospital areas
- Assist with bathing, laundry, dishes, trash, and general hospital cleaning
- Safely handle dogs of different sizes, breeds, and temperaments
- Work alongside our veterinarians, technicians, and client service team
- Help create a safe, calm, and comfortable environment for every pet in our care
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who is:
- Reliable and dependable
- Hardworking and not afraid of physical work
- Genuinely passionate about animal care
- Comfortable handling dogs of different sizes and temperaments
- Able to stay organized and productive without constant supervision
- Positive, friendly, and willing to learn
- Comfortable working as part of a close-knit team
- Able to stand and walk for extended periods and lift up to 40 lbs.
Professional animal-handling experience is preferred, but we're willing to train the right person. Experience in veterinary medicine, boarding, daycare, grooming, kennels, shelters, pet sitting, livestock, or another professional animal-care setting is a plus.
Schedule
Kennel care requires coverage outside of normal hospital hours, including weekends and holidays.
Hospital Hours:
- Monday–Friday: 7:00 AM–6:00 PM
- Saturday: 7:00 AM–12:00 PM
Kennel responsibilities may include:
- Early morning care
- Evening care
- Weekend shifts
- Holiday coverage
This position requires dependable attendance and flexibility with scheduling.
Why Rehm Animal Clinic?
At Timber Run, you'll be joining a team that genuinely cares about the animals we serve—and about each other.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Learn about veterinary medicine from experienced doctors and technicians
- Develop valuable animal-handling and patient-care skills
- Grow within a multi-location veterinary practice
- Work with a supportive, close-knit team
- Build experience that can open doors to future opportunities in veterinary medicine
What We Offer
- Starting pay from $14/hour, based on experience
- Medical, dental, vision & life insurance options for eligible employees
- 2 weeks PTO for eligible full-time employees
- IRA with employer match for eligible full-time employees
- Annual uniform allowance for eligible employees
- Company-paid continuing education opportunities
- Employee pet care discounts
- Opportunities for advancement
Come Grow With Us
We work hard. We get dirty. We laugh a lot. We take care of each other—and we take the responsibility of caring for our patients seriously.
If you're looking for a job where you can work with animals, learn something new every day, stay active, and be part of a team that genuinely cares, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and tell us why you'd be a great addition to the Rehm Animal Clinic Timber Run team!
Pay: From $14.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Continuing education credits
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Uniform allowance
Application Question(s):
- This is a physically demanding, hands-on animal-care position that involves cleaning kennels, handling dogs of different sizes and temperaments, feeding, walking, administering medications, and caring for pets who may be sick, stressed, or difficult to handle. In 2–3 sentences, tell us what interests you most about this type of work and what experience you have caring for or handling animals.
- This position requires dependable attendance, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays as scheduled. Are you able to consistently meet the scheduling requirements of this position? Please briefly explain any recurring availability restrictions.
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Work Location: In person
