Animal Care Technician

Metro Animal Services is looking for a compassionate Animal Care Technician to help provide daily care, comfort, and cleanliness for animals in our shelter. This full‑time role supports a busy, seven‑day‑a‑week shelter that serves seven South Sound communities and helps rehome over 1,000 animals each year. If you’re dependable, kind‑hearted, and ready for full‑time shifts that often include weekends and holidays, this could be your chance to make a real difference, one paw at a time.

Hourly pay: $17.16–$21.42 (with growth to $25.71)

The Animal Care Technician provides compassionate, humane care for animals housed in the shelter and ensures their living areas are kept clean, safe and sanitary. This position reports to the Animal Control Supervisor or Shelter Coordinator and has no supervisory responsibilities.

The City of Sumner’s vision is to set the standard of excellence for a progressive small city. In working to achieve that vision, Sumner prioritizes and celebrates diverse perspectives, life experiences and differences. The City actively seeks and encourages people with diverse backgrounds and characteristics to apply and all come together with a goal of continuing to learn and improve to better serve the residents, businesses and visitors of our community.

Sumner remains a traditional city of just over 11,000 residents with agricultural roots, known for decades as the Rhubarb Pie Capital of the World. At the same time, its compact, walkable layout aligns perfectly with progressive planning trends, as its classic Main Street becomes repurposed for boutiques, independent restaurants and daily services such as legal offices, financial advisors and doctors.

While Sumner retains historic neighborhoods of Craftsman houses and an active high school right on Main Street, it also offers over 16,000 manufacturing and distribution jobs for companies such as REI, Keurig Dr. Pepper, , and Dillanos Coffee Roasters. With a downtown Sound Transit station with buses and trains, it is well connected to the Puget Sound region while striving to be a full‑service city with the largest YMCA facility in the state of Washington as well as a link trail system that will connect the Foothills and Interurban trails.

Like the community, the city government is large enough to be professional but small enough to be creative. The City has won a variety of awards from the Governor’s Smart Planning Award to recognition at the International Association of Chiefs of Police for its groundbreaking police work on victim’s assistance. With a strong mayor format, the City has just over 120 employees who operate a cemetery, wastewater treatment facility, accredited police department, animal shelter, parks, full service public works and administration.

The City of Sumner manages Metro Animal Services. Metro Animal Services is a regional animal care and control program serving the cities of Sumner, Puyallup, Algona, Bonney Lake, Edgewood, Milton and Pacific. Metro Animal Services provides enforcement, sheltering and rehoming services to over 1000 animals annually. The shelter is located on Puyallup's South Hill at 1200 39th Ave SE.

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The job duties and responsibilities represented in this job description in no way imply that these are the only duties to be performed. Employees occupying the position will be required to follow any other job‑related instructions and to perform any other job‑related duties requested by a supervisor. While requirements may be representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and abilities to perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

• Thoroughly cleans, rinses, scrubs and disinfects animal cages, kennels, isolation and quarantine areas, outdoor runs, hallways, floors, walls and related shelter facilities areas in accordance with established sanitation and biosecurity protocols; cleans and sanitizes water and food dishes, bedding and related kennel equipment, disinfects animal‑holding refrigerators and…