Welcome to the Dog Gone Problems employment opportunities page. Since 2012, we have provided positive dog training and behavior help to thousands of Omaha area dogs and puppies. As the Omaha area’s premiere dog training organization, we are always looking for talented people who just “get” dogs.
Since we have started, we have been teaching people about their dogs and we do the same with our staff. We love promoting people from within. So if you are looking for a job that recognizes and rewards hard work and has the ability for upward advancement, you have found the right place.
If you a natural with dogs and are looking for a fun and rewarding career, we’d love to hear more about you.
Dog Gone Problems Employment Opportunities
We have multiple staffing positions at Dog Gone Problems. Here is a summary and quick description of each one.
Dog Daycare Attendant
Dog Daycare Attendent is our entry level position, and a great way to get your foot in the door to becoming a professional Dog Trainer.
Our Dog Daycare Attendants get to kick it with a small group of dogs; watching over them to make sure it’s a fun, safe and and rewarding experience each day. This gives you the ability to get paid to learn about dog behavior, body language, consent and cut off signals.
Duties include supervising play, feeding the dogs, taking them out for potty breaks and walks, reinforcing desired behaviors and supporting our dog training staff.
Daycare shifts run from 6 AM to 12:30 PM and 12 to 6:30 PM so you will work 6.5 hour daily shifts.
Daycare Attendants are paid between $13.50 – $14 an hour based on experience.
If you want to get started on a career in the dog industry, dog daycare attendant is a great place to start.
Dog Daycare Shift Lead
The 2 Dog Daycare Shift Leads supervise our low volume dog daycare. Usually this position is filled by people who have worked as a Dog Daycare Attendent, but we also hire qualified candidates from outside the DGP organization.
Duties include supervising the daycare staff, managing the daily dog schedule, helping with behavior evaluations, customer engagement, scheduling, running staff meetings and ensuring the dogs and staff under your supervision have everything they need.
We provide additional dog behavior training to shift leads as we like to promote leads to our next position; Puppy Class Instructor.
Just like our daycare attendents, Leads have 2 shifts; 6 AM to 12:30 PM or 12 PM to 6:30 PM.
Daycare shift leads are paid $15 – $16 an hour based on experience.
Jadyn teaching one of our 40 monthly puppy classes
Puppy Class Instructors
Our Puppy Class Instructors are often promoted from Shift Lead or Daycare staff, but we do sometimes hire people from outside the organziation to fill this fun position.
As successful teaches are the ones who connect with their students, we look for people who are naturally engaging with outgoing personalities.
Instructors lead small classes (6 pups plus their people) through multiple training lessons so you need to be comfortable teaching, talking to and helping people. Puppy’s can be a lot, so part of this job is being a support counselor to puppy parents who are struggling with puppy issues.
To make sure you are ready to help puppy parents, our puppy class instructors go through a 3 month, paid training program where we go over all the tips and lessons we teach in our 3 class levels. Your first month is shadowing puppy classes while reading and watching videos at home to familiarize yourself with the material without the pressure of leading classes yourself. The second month has you ramping up to leading your own classes.
We pride ourselves on setting puppies and dogs up for success and we do the same with our Puppy Class Instructors.
Puppy class instructors starting pay depends on experience, but once training is complete, trainers who are working at a satisfactory level receive monthly raises until they are making $20 an hour.
Puppy Class Instructors work in the evenings Monday to Friday and / or Saturday mornings and early afternoons.
The Dog Gone family and their humans
Dog Trainer
Our Dog Trainers are often promoted after working first as a Puppy Class Instructor. However, we also hire qualified people from outside the organziation for this position.
Our trainers conduct in-home sessions with clients all over the metro area. Similar to Puppy Class Instructors, you need to be a people person who enjoys working with dogs and people. We pride ourselves on having a ‘teach a person to fish’ approach. Our ultimate goal is to train our clients to replace us so you need to truly enjoy talking with and helping people with their dogs.
Since this is a position that travels to people’s homes, you must have your own reliable car.
Trainers are paid between $20 – $23 an hour depending on experience.
Trainers work between 20-40 hours a week between the hours of 10 AM – 7 PM weekdays and 10 AM – 5 PM Saturdays. Trainers have a custom work schedule that allows you quite a bit of flexibility; setting your work hours window and ability to take time off.
Dog Behavior Expert
Dog Behavior Experts are our senior level position at Dog Gone Problems.
Our Behavior staff are promoted from our dog training staff. As there are only a handful of these highly trained and experineced experts in the area, when appropriately qualified candidates are available we sometimes hire from outside Dog Gone Problems.
Dog trainers teach skills, where Dog Behavior experts often work with dog’s emotions. We show people what they are doing that is causing or contributing to their dog’s behavior problems, then come up with a custom solution for each behavior issue.
Just like our Dog Trainers, this position travels to people’s homes to work with their dogs in an environment they feel the most comfortable. Obviously you must have your own car in order to work in this position.
Dog Behavior Experts training involves shadowing with senior behavior staff at thier in home sessions, one-on-one training and some online courses. This position usually grows out of a dog training position where you transition from dog trainer to behavior expert unless you have prior dog behavior experience.
Booking Coordinator
Our Booking Coordinators schedule our in-home training appointments, enroll puppies in our puppy classes, answer customer service questions and problems, do general clerical work and assist our founder. This is an in office position at our daycare facility (13483 W Center Rd).
This position does NOT work with dogs directly, although the work they do is a crucial component of our staff who work with dogs.
You must have outstanding communication skills for this position as your primary objective is working with dog owners. You also need to be highly organized, have great attention to detail, be self motivated and take pride in your work.
Summary
We have a small and supportive, non corporate work environment where hard work, dedication and a passion to help animals is nurtured, appreciated and promoted. We arent looking for someone who just wants another job. We are searching for people whose dream job is a career where they get to help dogs.
In addition to being paid well to work with dogs and puppies, our staff members enjoy a flexible work schedule, paid training and employee discounts.
If you are still reading and think you are a good candidate for us, here are the job requirements:
- You are passionate about working with dogs
- You live inside the Omaha metro area.
- You have your own, reliable transportation.
- You are available to work M-F with a consistent schedule.
- You don’t need time off on a regular basis (not including emergencies or special occasions set in advance).
- You are active and able to stand unassisted for hours, take a dog out for a run or deal with big dogs getting physical (jumping up, pulling you while on a leash, etc).
