Certified Veterinary Technician
Lansing, Illinois, United StatesPosted Jul 30, 2026
Job description
🚨 Certified Veterinary Technician Wanted 🚨
aka the perfect role for someone who’s obsessed with high-quality medicine, loves leading a team, and wants to make a real impact in veterinary care 🐾✨
We’re looking for an experienced Certified Veterinary Technician** to join our clinic and help take patient care, team leadership, and clinic culture to the next level. If you’re the type of person who can run a treatment floor, support your team, educate clients and still hype everyone up during a chaotic day… we want you 👏
This is not a “basic tech” role. You’ll be heavily involved in advanced patient care, leadership, training, surgery, client communication, and helping the clinic operate smoothly while maintaining top-tier medicine.
💼 What You’ll Be Doing:
- Leading and supporting the technician team throughout daily clinic operations
- Working hand and hand with our practice manager to ensure tech land is running smoothly
- Mentoring and training newer technicians and assistants
- Helping create efficient workflows and maintaining positive team culture
- Assisting veterinarians with exams, diagnostics, surgery and treatment plans
- Monitoring anesthesia and surgical patients
- Performing blood draws, IV catheter placement, radiographs, lab work, dental procedures and nursing care
- Managing hospitalized and critical care patients
- Educating pet parents and making sure they feel informed and supported
- Helping maintain inventory, treatment protocols, and medical standards
- Advocating for both patients and your team every single day
🐶 Why People Love Working Here:
- You actually get to use your skills and grow them
- Supportive leadership that values your experience and ideas
- Team culture that’s collaborative, positive and drama-free
- Opportunity to work with advanced medicine and integrative therapies
- Fast-paced environment where every day is different
- Coworkers who genuinely care about pets, clients, and each other
- A clinic that believes veterinary technicians are essential, respected, and appreciated 💅
🎓 What We’re Looking For:
- Certified Veterinary Technician (CVT)
- Graduate of an accredited Veterinary Technician program
- VTNE completed and active credentials required
- Previous veterinary experience required
- Leadership or management experience strongly preferred
- Strong communication and conflict-resolution skills
- Ability to multitask and stay organized in a busy environment
- Passion for mentorship, teamwork, and patient advocacy
- Interest or experience in surgery, dentistry, anesthesia, rehab, acupuncture, or laser therapy is a huge plus
✨ Bonus Points If You:
- Love mentoring newer team members
- Thrive in fast-paced environments
- Can balance leadership with compassion
- Bring positive energy even on the crazy days
- Are passionate about gold-standard medicine and patient care
💖 What We Offer:
- Competitive pay + benefits package starting day ONE of employment
- Continuing education (CE) allowance and license renewal fee's covered
- Generous pet discount
- Professional development opportunities, that's right we want you to grow!
- Supportive management that wants you to succeed
- Opportunities to grow your leadership skills
- A genuinely fun and team-focused environment
- Daily serotonin from adorable patients 🐕🐈