Veterinary Technician Jobs in Missouri
Veterinary Technician jobs in Missouri are concentrated in small-animal clinical practice, emergency and specialty care, and agricultural and large-animal medicine, reflecting the state's strong mix of urban pet ownership and rural livestock industries. Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia account for the bulk of active openings, where established employers like Banfield Pet Hospital, VCA Animal Hospitals, and the University of Missouri Veterinary Health Center maintain consistent hiring pipelines. Demand is steady at every level from new graduates pursuing their first clinical role to experienced technicians specializing in anesthesia, dentistry, and emergency triage. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Top employerVeterinary Practice Partners
Top citySt. Louis, MO
Cities hiring33
Work type100% On-site
Top industryAnimal Care
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Hometown Veterinary Partners
Credentialed Veterinary Technician
Crestwood, Missouri
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Veterinary Practice Partners
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O'Fallon, Missouri
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City Paws Veterinary Clinic
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St. Louis, Missouri
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Veterinary Practice Partners
Veterinary Technician
Kirkwood, Missouri
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Veterinary Practice Partners
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Belton, Missouri
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Credentialed Veterinary Technician
Hometown Veterinary Partners·Crestwood, Missouri
Job functions:
Veterinary Technician Certification
Job Description
Get ready to make a positive impact on your team members, your community, and the veterinary industry!
Hometown Veterinary Partners was founded in 2023 with a mission to empower veterinary professionals by building veterinary hospitals which inspire, uplift, and fulfill. We are seeking full and part time Credentialed Veterinary Technicians (CVT) to work right where you live in brand-new, bright, and beautiful veterinary hospitals.
As a Credentialed Veterinary Technician at Hometown Veterinary Partners (HVP), you’re a member of the hospital team and report directly to the Hospital Director or Partner Doctor. Veterinary Technicians will support our core beliefs of Culture, Collaboration and Community. Veterinary Technicians are empowered to provide exceptional client care that is approachable, accessible, and individualized in your location. You’re a respected member of the team, and your skillset and ideas are important to have a successful hospital which advances medical care, client communication, teamwork, and marketing to build the HVP brand.
This is your opportunity to contribute to the culture of your dreams! You will provide client care in your location while earning a competitive wage and a full suite of benefits. Your experience, background, and unique viewpoints are valued here. At Hometown Veterinary Partners, you are empowered to create rewarding and sustainable veterinary careers in your hospital and for our veterinary community.
More about Hometown Veterinary Partners:
Exciting changes in the veterinary industry start with us and we are just getting started. We want you to be excited and happy doing what you love most. You can expect to grow and nourish the culture and community in your local hometown veterinary hospital. We work hard together for what we believe in: principles of CULTURE, COMMUNITY and COLLABORATION.
- CULTURE. The center of what makes each hospital special is its culture. We give you the space to build and foster a healthy workplace at each location and support you along the way.
- COMMUNITY. We share in our teams’ excitement to be contributing members of their neighborhoods and to create positive change in our veterinary industry. Our veterinary teams are empowered to maintain local autonomy and growth in their community.
- COLLABORATION. We encourage our teams to embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and operate with growth mindsets. We celebrate everyone’s individual viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. We grow together!
Our care teams have important roles in which they collaborate on successful outcomes and advancements in operations, pet care, and client services. We provide services six days/week which include: appointments, scheduled surgeries, and preventative care days.
Being a Veterinary Technician with HVP requires much more than AVMA certified credentials. We are looking for passionate people looking to bring that passion into the education and care of our clients and their pets. We are looking for those career seekers. We have amazing opportunities to work to your full skill level. Are you someone who wants to achieve that? It means bringing your talents, skills, dedication, and a desire for developing alongside your peers. Most importantly, it means showing up each day with a passion for pets and working with others who believe quality care is the key to helping pets achieve long and healthy lives.
Here's How You’ll Make An Impact:
Culture
- Maintain a positive, supportive, and collaborate work environment.
- Bring interpersonal and conflict resolution skills to support an inclusive environment.
- Support the training and onboarding of new team members.
- Provide ongoing input that supports efficiency, productivity, and well-being.
- Identify opportunities and support best practices to contribute to our growth.
- Provide a positive and exceptional client experience and patient care.
Community
- Welcome clients and their pets to the hospital in a friendly and courteous fashion.
- Assist clients in checking in and out as well as setting up appointments for follow-up care.
- Gather basic vital signs, weight, and history on patients.
- Properly restrain pets during examinations and procedures.
- Prepare and administer medications as prescribed by the DVM.
- Observe animal behavior and health conditions and report to the DVM.
- Assist in cases of emergencies.
- Keep accurate records and logs and record them in patients’ medical notes.
- Advise pet owners on nutrition and healthcare as determined by the DVM.
- Educate owners on medications, husbandry, and recommend practices for their pets as determined by the DVM.
- Perform basic laboratory testing and radiographs.
- Perform dental prophylactic procedures with accuracy and efficiency.
- Safely monitor and document for anesthetic procedures
- Lead as a provider of veterinary technician appointments based on state practice act and veterinary client-patient relationship guidelines.
Collaboration
- Give input, ideas, and suggestions for continual improvement of the practice environment for the care team, patients, and pet parents.
- Be a part of quality, safety, and health initiatives.
- Triage emergency cases appropriately and keep clients and pets at ease.
- Review patients’ records to ensure that immunizations, diagnostic and routine testing, and prevention are up to date.
- Note all observations, testing, and treatments in Medical Notes
- Clean kennels, examination tables/rooms treatment areas, sterilize equipment and wrapping of packs.
Requirements
- Responsibilities listed above and procedures as defined by the state Practice Act
- Initiative-taking with a demonstrated passion for excellence and continuous learning.
- Comfort in a high growth environment
- Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.
- Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail in fast paced environment.
- Solid and effective communication, technology, organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to relate with clients in a friendly and professional manner.
- Excellent phone etiquette.
- Have reliable transportation.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role including standing, sitting, kneeling, and lifting, up to 5lbs, for extended periods of time.
- Ability to maintain professionalism under stressful conditions.
- Ability to exercise patience and empathize with clients.
- Ability to closely follow instructions when preparing and administering treatment to patients.
Experience, Education and/or Training
- Veterinary Technician Certification or Licensure (CVT, RVT, LVT, or LVMT) required.
- Graduation from an AVMA accredited Veterinary Technology Program
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- One year of veterinary or technician experience required.
Other Details
- Full-time or Part Time Opportunities Available
- Hours: 8 or 10 Hour Shifts
- Day & Evening Shifts, Holidays, Saturday (Closed Sunday)
- Competitive Compensation
- PTO for Part-Time & Full-Time Team Members (Inclusive of Vacation, Sick, Personal & Holiday)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Telemedicine
- Wellness & Mental Health Resources
- Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Pet Insurance
- Pet Discounts
- 401k
- CE Allowance
- Opportunity for Equity and Advancement
- Flexible Schedule to Allow for Work-Life Balance
Hometown Veterinary Partners is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all aspects of employment and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Are you ready to be a part of a new, special, and exciting veterinary community where you’re contributing to a better future for yourself, your team, and the veterinary community? Let’s talk!
Hometown Veterinary Partners
Credentialed Veterinary Technician
Crestwood, Missouri
New 14h ago
Job functions:
Veterinary Technician Certification
Job Description
Get ready to make a positive impact on your team members, your community, and the veterinary industry!
Hometown Veterinary Partners was founded in 2023 with a mission to empower veterinary professionals by building veterinary hospitals which inspire, uplift, and fulfill. We are seeking full and part time Credentialed Veterinary Technicians (CVT) to work right where you live in brand-new, bright, and beautiful veterinary hospitals.
As a Credentialed Veterinary Technician at Hometown Veterinary Partners (HVP), you’re a member of the hospital team and report directly to the Hospital Director or Partner Doctor. Veterinary Technicians will support our core beliefs of Culture, Collaboration and Community. Veterinary Technicians are empowered to provide exceptional client care that is approachable, accessible, and individualized in your location. You’re a respected member of the team, and your skillset and ideas are important to have a successful hospital which advances medical care, client communication, teamwork, and marketing to build the HVP brand.
This is your opportunity to contribute to the culture of your dreams! You will provide client care in your location while earning a competitive wage and a full suite of benefits. Your experience, background, and unique viewpoints are valued here. At Hometown Veterinary Partners, you are empowered to create rewarding and sustainable veterinary careers in your hospital and for our veterinary community.
More about Hometown Veterinary Partners:
Exciting changes in the veterinary industry start with us and we are just getting started. We want you to be excited and happy doing what you love most. You can expect to grow and nourish the culture and community in your local hometown veterinary hospital. We work hard together for what we believe in: principles of CULTURE, COMMUNITY and COLLABORATION.
- CULTURE. The center of what makes each hospital special is its culture. We give you the space to build and foster a healthy workplace at each location and support you along the way.
- COMMUNITY. We share in our teams’ excitement to be contributing members of their neighborhoods and to create positive change in our veterinary industry. Our veterinary teams are empowered to maintain local autonomy and growth in their community.
- COLLABORATION. We encourage our teams to embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and operate with growth mindsets. We celebrate everyone’s individual viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. We grow together!
Our care teams have important roles in which they collaborate on successful outcomes and advancements in operations, pet care, and client services. We provide services six days/week which include: appointments, scheduled surgeries, and preventative care days.
Being a Veterinary Technician with HVP requires much more than AVMA certified credentials. We are looking for passionate people looking to bring that passion into the education and care of our clients and their pets. We are looking for those career seekers. We have amazing opportunities to work to your full skill level. Are you someone who wants to achieve that? It means bringing your talents, skills, dedication, and a desire for developing alongside your peers. Most importantly, it means showing up each day with a passion for pets and working with others who believe quality care is the key to helping pets achieve long and healthy lives.
Here's How You’ll Make An Impact:
Culture
- Maintain a positive, supportive, and collaborate work environment.
- Bring interpersonal and conflict resolution skills to support an inclusive environment.
- Support the training and onboarding of new team members.
- Provide ongoing input that supports efficiency, productivity, and well-being.
- Identify opportunities and support best practices to contribute to our growth.
- Provide a positive and exceptional client experience and patient care.
Community
- Welcome clients and their pets to the hospital in a friendly and courteous fashion.
- Assist clients in checking in and out as well as setting up appointments for follow-up care.
- Gather basic vital signs, weight, and history on patients.
- Properly restrain pets during examinations and procedures.
- Prepare and administer medications as prescribed by the DVM.
- Observe animal behavior and health conditions and report to the DVM.
- Assist in cases of emergencies.
- Keep accurate records and logs and record them in patients’ medical notes.
- Advise pet owners on nutrition and healthcare as determined by the DVM.
- Educate owners on medications, husbandry, and recommend practices for their pets as determined by the DVM.
- Perform basic laboratory testing and radiographs.
- Perform dental prophylactic procedures with accuracy and efficiency.
- Safely monitor and document for anesthetic procedures
- Lead as a provider of veterinary technician appointments based on state practice act and veterinary client-patient relationship guidelines.
Collaboration
- Give input, ideas, and suggestions for continual improvement of the practice environment for the care team, patients, and pet parents.
- Be a part of quality, safety, and health initiatives.
- Triage emergency cases appropriately and keep clients and pets at ease.
- Review patients’ records to ensure that immunizations, diagnostic and routine testing, and prevention are up to date.
- Note all observations, testing, and treatments in Medical Notes
- Clean kennels, examination tables/rooms treatment areas, sterilize equipment and wrapping of packs.
Requirements
- Responsibilities listed above and procedures as defined by the state Practice Act
- Initiative-taking with a demonstrated passion for excellence and continuous learning.
- Comfort in a high growth environment
- Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.
- Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail in fast paced environment.
- Solid and effective communication, technology, organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to relate with clients in a friendly and professional manner.
- Excellent phone etiquette.
- Have reliable transportation.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role including standing, sitting, kneeling, and lifting, up to 5lbs, for extended periods of time.
- Ability to maintain professionalism under stressful conditions.
- Ability to exercise patience and empathize with clients.
- Ability to closely follow instructions when preparing and administering treatment to patients.
Experience, Education and/or Training
- Veterinary Technician Certification or Licensure (CVT, RVT, LVT, or LVMT) required.
- Graduation from an AVMA accredited Veterinary Technology Program
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- One year of veterinary or technician experience required.
Other Details
- Full-time or Part Time Opportunities Available
- Hours: 8 or 10 Hour Shifts
- Day & Evening Shifts, Holidays, Saturday (Closed Sunday)
- Competitive Compensation
- PTO for Part-Time & Full-Time Team Members (Inclusive of Vacation, Sick, Personal & Holiday)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Telemedicine
- Wellness & Mental Health Resources
- Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Pet Insurance
- Pet Discounts
- 401k
- CE Allowance
- Opportunity for Equity and Advancement
- Flexible Schedule to Allow for Work-Life Balance
Hometown Veterinary Partners is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all aspects of employment and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Are you ready to be a part of a new, special, and exciting veterinary community where you’re contributing to a better future for yourself, your team, and the veterinary community? Let’s talk!
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Where Missouri roles are concentrated, by current openings.
St. Louis
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1 jobSaint Joseph
1 jobSaint Peters
1 jobSunset Hills
1 jobBowling Green
1 jobVeterinary Technician Job Market in Missouri
A snapshot from current Missouri openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Animal Care & Pet Services
What Missouri Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in veterinary technician jobs across Missouri.
- Active Missouri Veterinary Technician registration through the Missouri Veterinary Medical Board required
- Passing score on the Veterinary Technician National Examination recognized by Missouri licensing board
- Associate or bachelor's degree from an AVMA-accredited veterinary technology program
- Hands-on clinical experience with patient restraint, venipuncture, and anesthesia monitoring
- Proficiency with veterinary practice management software such as Avimark or Cornerstone
- Strong communication skills for client education and coordination with supervising veterinarians
Veterinary Technician Jobs in Missouri: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a veterinary technician in Missouri?
You become a veterinary technician in Missouri by completing an associate degree from an AVMA-accredited program, passing the Veterinary Technician National Examination, and registering with the Missouri Veterinary Medical Board. Missouri requires active state registration before you can work in the role. The University of Missouri and several community colleges across the state offer accredited programs that satisfy these requirements.
How much do veterinary technicians make in Missouri?
Veterinary technicians in Missouri earn a median of about $43,520 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $31,940 for the lowest 10% to over $49,260 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire veterinary technicians in Missouri?
Employers hiring veterinary technicians in Missouri right now include Veterinary Practice Partners, University of Missouri, and NVA, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Missouri's mix of corporate veterinary groups, independent specialty hospitals, and university teaching clinics creates consistent demand at multiple experience levels throughout the year.
Which Missouri cities have the most veterinary technician jobs?
St. Louis, Columbia, and O'Fallon have the most veterinary technician openings in Missouri. Kansas City and St. Louis drive volume through dense populations of companion-animal owners, large specialty and emergency referral hospitals, and corporate veterinary chains, while Columbia's openings are heavily anchored by the University of Missouri Veterinary Health Center and the surrounding college-town pet care market.
Are there remote veterinary technician jobs in Missouri?
Yes, but they're rare. The hands-on nature of patient care means most veterinary technician roles require on-site presence. About 0% of veterinary technician openings tied to Missouri are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, and those positions tend to involve telehealth triage, veterinary client support, or medical records coordination rather than direct patient care.
How can I get hired as a veterinary technician in Missouri with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is starting as a veterinary assistant at a multi-location practice or specialty hospital while completing an AVMA-accredited program. Corporate groups with a strong presence in Missouri often hire unlicensed assistants and support internal advancement once you pass the Veterinary Technician National Examination. University of Missouri Veterinary Health Center also offers exposure for students in accredited programs. Gaining your Missouri registration early and building hours in general practice positions you well for a technician role.
Where can I find and apply to veterinary technician jobs in Missouri?
You can find and apply to veterinary technician jobs in Missouri on Migrate Mate, which lists current Missouri openings across clinical settings, specialty hospitals, and large-animal practices. Search the listings, identify the roles that match your credentials and preferred location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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