Join the Pack at Dan’s Pet Care
As a Floater, you play an integral role in our day-to-day operations, ensuring that every dog gets top-tier care and our facility remains in impeccable condition. From feeding sessions to facility upkeep, your versatility will keep our center running smoothly.
Key Responsibilities:
Dog Feeding:
- Efficiently divide dogs for their meal times, ensuring each one receives the correct portion.
- Oversee and manage the distribution of food—an activity that takes around 30 minutes each session.
- Prepare food as needed, tailoring each meal to the specific needs of our canine guests.
Facility Cleaning:
- Engage in general cleaning duties throughout your shift, maintaining a hygienic environment.
- Ensure a clean space post-feeding sessions.
- Take charge of deep cleaning the entire facility when required.
- Maintain cleanliness in administrative areas.
- Responsible for kitchen cleanliness after each feeding session.
Intakes and Outtakes:
- Execute intake runs, warmly welcoming new dogs to our facility.
- Prepare dogs for outtake, ensuring they're ready to transition either back to their owners or to another location within our facility.
- Act as an outtake runner, coordinating the smooth exit of our canine guests.
- Manage early outtakes as needed.
- Handle the last let-outs before the facility's nighttime operations or closing.
Additional Services:
- Deliver add-on services for dogs, ensuring they receive all the pampering they're slated for.
- Handle final add-ons, making sure no service is left unfulfilled by the end of your shift.
Breaks:
- Cover for Player 1 and Player 2 during their breaks, seamlessly taking over their responsibilities.
- Manage breaks for Player 3 and ensure you take your own well-deserved rest!
- Miscellaneous:
- Set up the facility for various operations, be it feeding, outtake, or any other task on the agenda.
What We're Looking For:
- Versatility: The ability to switch tasks seamlessly and adapt to various responsibilities.
- Experience: Prior experience in pet care is a plus, but we value dedication and a love for animals.
- Team Player: A knack for collaboration and an understanding of the importance of every role in our facility.
- Problem-Solving: Proactively address challenges with a calm and efficient mindset.
Why Join Dan's Pet Care:
- Dynamic Role: No two days are the same. Relish the variety and growth opportunities.
- State-of-the-Art Facility: Work in our brand-new facility, equipped with the latest in pet care.
- Team of Passionates: Join a community that loves and cares for animals deeply.
* Incomplete applications that have not responded to all screening questions will not be considered for review by our team.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
Dan's Pet Care is Long Island's largest professional pet care company, serving 5,000+ client families across 80 towns in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Founded in 2009, we've grown from a solo dog walking operation into a team of 90+ W-2 employees delivering dog walking, pet sitting, daycare, and cage-free boarding at Long Island's only 24/7 staffed cage-free facility in Glen Cove.
We've earned 14+ industry awards including PSI's 2021 Pet Sitter of the Year, multiple Best of Long Island honors, and an NYS Senate Empire Award. Apple even featured us as a Small Business Success Story.
What makes us different? We do things the right way. Every team member is a W-2 employee with real benefits — not a 1099 contractor left to figure it out alone. We invest in training, provide the tools and support you need, and build careers, not gigs.
Our core values drive everything we do: Love of Animals. Raise the Bar. Bring Your Best. Peace of Mind. If those resonate with you, you'll fit right in.
Whether you're joining our field team or our boarding facility, you're walking into a company that's been raising the standard for professional pet care on Long Island for over 16 years — and we're still growing.