It’s been a super fun week in the job market, assuming your idea of fun is watching huge companies announce massive layoffs while insisting everything is totally fine. Looking at you, Bezos!

The messaging is always the same. “Strategic shifts.” “Difficult decisions.” “Long-term focus.” Meanwhile, thousands of new people are suddenly entering the job hunt - which definitely doesn’t help if you’ve already been looking.
So instead of marinating in whatever fresh hell corporate PR cooked up this week, let’s narrow the lens a bit and look locally.
Here’s who’s hiring around town this week.
👋 Service & Hospitality
Work with people in public-facing roles.
Member Experience Associate • $21/hr • Part Time
Kiln
🙌 Come work with me! Kiln is looking for a Member Experience Associate to be the face of the space, help members, support events, and keep the day-to-day running smoothly. This is genuinely the most kind, smart, and fun community in all of Fort Collins. (I've checked) If you want a part-time role that you genuinely look forward to, this is it.
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Customer Service Representative • $45k-$100k/yr • Full Time
Dave Orr - State Farm Agent
Dave Orr’s State Farm office needs a friendly local to help folks with their policies and claims, keep the paperwork straight.
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Child Care Teacher • $21-$25/hr • Full Time
Bright Horizons
Bright Horizons is hiring preschool teachers who love kids and want to shape tiny humans into future geniuses while earning free college degrees. Not a bad trade-off!
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Home Furnishings Consultant • $46k-$120k/yr • Full Time
American Furniture Warehouse
AFW’s looking for a people person to stroll the showroom, help folks furnish their homes, and turn “just browsing” into “let’s get it delivered,” with solid training and plenty of weekend and evening hustle. 100% commission-based, so bring your A-game.
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Groomer • $150/day • Part Time
Wagz Pet Market & Grooming
Wagz is looking for an experienced Groomer to join their crew and keep Fort Collins’ dogs looking fresh. Tuesday-Sunday availability, plenty of tips, a hefty employee discount, AND you get to spend your days in a genuinely great, low-drama shop with people (and pups) actually enjoy being there. If you’re confident with your clippers and patient with dogs, reach out to [email protected] to apply.
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Crisis Counselor • $24-$26/hr • Full Time
Protocall
A remote, Colorado-based crisis counseling gig where you’re a calm voice on the line for people in really rough moments, all from a HIPAA-tight home office. Serious work, solid training, strong benefits.
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🛠️ Trades & Labor
Hands-on, physical jobs.
Maintenance Coordinator • $45k-$60k/yr • Full Time
Liberty Commons High School
Liberty Common High School needs a full time maintenance pro to keep the whole building humming from trash runs to inspections while supervising evening custodians and making sure kids don't run out of toilet paper.
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Plant Health Care Technician • $22-$28/hr • Full Time
The Davey Tree Expert Company
You know what's awesome? Trees! You know what's not awesome? Dying trees :( Davey’s hiring a Plant Healthcare Tech to cruise around town diagnosing sick trees, injecting treatments, and explaining to homeowners why their shrubs are having a midlife crisis.
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Highway Maintenance Specialist • $53k/yr • Full Time
Colorado Department of Transportation
CDOT’s looking for a Highway Maintenance pro in Fort Collins who can handle a snow plow, heavy equipment, and the Colorado weather while keeping our roads safe. Snow, debris, guardrails, and plenty of overtime when storms hit.
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Service Assembler • $20-$25/hr • Full Time
Advanced Energy
Advanced Energy is looking for a hands on tinkerer to repair and test plasma power gear in a clean, modern shop with a solid team and plenty of gadgets. It's like a grown up science lab, but paid.
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Entry Level Warehouse Associate • $16-$25/hr • Full Time
Ferguson
Ferguson’s looking for an entry level warehouse worker to sling pallets, run a stand up forklift, and keep things organized Monday through Friday so contractors’ projects can keep on moving.
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🧑💻 Office & Professional
Desk-based roles that rely on communication or specific know-how.
Entry Level Financial Representative • $65k-$85k/yr • Full Time
Northwestern Mutual
If you like talking money goals, this Northwestern Mutual gig has you coaching folks toward financial security, with solid training, a tight-knit local team, and remote flexibility.
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Licensed Mental Health Therapist • $115k-$120k/yr • Full Time
Gotham Enterprises
If you’ve got your Colorado LMFT, LPC, or LCSW and want steady 9 to 5 telehealth work, this gig lets you focus on real therapy without juggling chaos in the waiting room. Remote, ethical, structured, and respectful.
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Registered Veterinary Technician • $23-$33/hr • Full Time
Banfield
Banfield in Loveland is looking for an RVT to do hands-on vet tech work, build relationships with pets and their people, and still have enough work-life balance left to actually enjoy a Horsetooth hike.
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Early Career Water/Wastewater Engineer • $72k-$80k/yr • Full Time
RESPEC
If you’re a fledgling civil/environmental engineer, RESPEC will pay you to geek out on treatment plants, pipelines, and site visits while you learn the fancy software and work your way into employee ownership.
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Entry Level Civil Engineer • $76k-$88k/yr • Full Time
Olsson
Olsson’s looking for a new-grad civil engineer to help design massive data centers and other infrastructure, tinkering in Civil 3D while learning from senior engineers.
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Accountant • $59k-$102k/yr • Full Time
Nutrien
Nutrien in Loveland needs a detail-oriented accountant to keep their inventory and margins straight, double check branch counts, and poke at any weird numbers until they do what they're supposed to.
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Intake Coordinator • $22-$25/hr • Full Time
Avenues Recovery
Avenues is hiring an Intake Coordinator here in Fort Collins, helping people get smoothly into detox and residential treatment while you juggle calls, logistics, and insurance like a kind, detail-oriented air traffic controller.
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🌎 Government & Nonprofit
Roles centered on public service, education, and community impact.
Youth Agenda Organizers • $24-$31/hr • Full Time
New Era Colorado
New Era’s hiring seasonal canvassers to roam the Front Range chatting up young voters, gathering signatures, and generally trying to make Colorado politics less of an old boys club. Think lots of walking, clipboards, and stories for future barbecues.
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Community Justice Specialist • $28/hr • Full Time
Larimer County
This gig is with Larimer County’s Community Justice team, where you’re supervising folks on alternative sentences, keeping the facility safe, and helping people actually turn things around instead of just spinning the revolving jail door.
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City Clerk Admin I - Temp • $21-$25/hr • Full Time
City of Loveland
If you don’t mind scooping up phone calls, walk ins, and random projects, Loveland’s City Clerk office needs a temporary front desk hero to keep things organized and the citizen chaos neatly filed.
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Lab Assistant • $42k-$51k/yr • Full Time
City of Fort Collins
If you've got a science degree burning a hole in your pocket, this gig is basically keeping our water clean behind the scenes. You’ll wash and sterilize lab gear, run routine tests on Fort Collins’ drinking water and wastewater, and cruise around town collecting samples in a City vehicle.
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Medical Staff Credentialing Assistant • $25-$27/hr • Full Time
Mount Sinai Health System
If you like organizing details behind scenes, this remote credentialing gig with Mount Sinai lets you run the paperwork show from your home office while backing some seriously top tier medicine.
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Electrical Engineer I or II • $85k-$129k/yr • Full Time
City of Loveland
Loveland’s looking for an electrical engineer to help keep the lights on, crunch power system studies, and back up line crews when things go sideways. Mix of office and field work to keep things interesting!
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👀 Resources for the Hunt

Is Getting a Job Really All About Who You Know?
Yes, connections matter. No, they’re not the secret cheat code everyone makes them out to be. This quick watch from Ryan at PGT adds some much-needed nuance around networking and why solid employers still care more about fit and competence than favors.
*All roles above were verified as open and active as of 1/31/26
That’s it for now!
If you’re in the thick of it right now, I hope there’s at least one role in here that feels like a step in the right direction. New listings are added to the website as I find & vet them, so feel free to poke around during the week if you’re actively hunting.
I’ll be back next week with another roundup. Until then, take what’s useful, ignore what’s not, and keep on keeping on. You’re doing great.
Please don’t tell my 4 year old where I’m hiding,
-Adam


