At Petbarn, Australia’s speciality pet leading retailer, we're passionate about making the world a happier place through the love of pets! This great opportunity at Petbarn as a casual or part-time Pet School Trainer will suit a pet-passionate animal enthusiast looking to work with a great brand while also growing your pet training career. Strong retail leadership experience is essential to be successful in this role!

We are looking for a confident bright puppy school trainer to work on a casual basis in our Currambine Petbarn store.

The successful candidate will have:

- Passion for animal behaviour and training.

- Commitment to the care of pets

- Confidence in 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

- Robust 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.





- Positive reinforcement-based training experience or qualifications are highly regarded.

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.

This is a casual role, and you will be offered shifts on a needs bases that suits your availability. The ideal candidate must be reliable, have an ability to present and deliver training, and be flexible and able to work autonomously.

You must be willing to deliver the pet training content as provided to you to remain within our animal welfare and ethics guidelines, as well as undertaking regular paid training sessions with our senior Trainers to refresh and improve your skills.

As part of your responsibilities, you must be physically fit and capable so as to handle dogs of all sizes as reasonably expected of the role. You 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 as well in the future (i.e., kitten/cat and aquatic classes).

Don’t wait, Apply now!

📌 Pet School Trainer (Joondalup)
🏢 Petbarn
📍 Joondalup