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EXHIBITIONS TECHNICIAN
Employer:
Anchorage Museum
Description:
The Anchorage Museum connects people, expands perspectives, and encourages global dialog about the North and its distinct environment. Exploring the intersection of art, history and science, the Anchorage Museum shares multiple perspectives and experiences that tell a greater story and welcomes, nurtures, and leverages diversity and inclusion in all we do and recognize all are enriched with the inclusion of diverse voices, viewpoints, and skill sets. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
For a full job description and to apply, go to www.anchoragemuseum.org/about-us/employment.
The Anchorage Museum is seeking a woodworking craftsman with a creative mind and an innovative approach to making 3-dimential space come alive. The Museum’s Exhibitions Technician exercises high levels of skill in fabricating, finishing, installing and maintaining exhibition environments and display components. The incumbent must be able to follow, with extreme precision, written, drawn and oral specifications. Such items may include creating exhibit structures, furniture, crates, and artifact mounts according to exacting, specialized production and fabrication techniques.
Essential Functions:
•Constructs exhibition environments and special projects, employing a wide range of materials and tools
•Participates in finish and detail work on exhibition components and environments
•Assists with lighting of exhibitions
•Strikes exhibits, removing artifacts and salvaging and stowing re-usable materials and equipment
•Installs, places, mounts and hangs artwork and artifacts
•Maintains workshop and crate storage areas in clean and well-organized manner
•Routinely handles fragile artwork and artifacts
•Operates heavy equipment, i.e. forklift, scissor-lift; operates light equipment, i.e. saws, electronic tools, etc.
•Ensures compliance with applicable regulations, including health, safety and environmental
•Builds crates and packs art and artifacts for safe shipment
•Performs regular maintenance of temporary and long-term exhibitions
Knowledge and Skills:
•Demonstrated experience working with commercial woodworking and metalworking power tools, power hand tools, and hand tools used in construction, cabinetmaking or fabrication trades
•Studio art experience may be considered as an alternate experience qualification
•Possesses basic carpentry math skills and experience, including measuring, estimating, marking, squaring, leveling, sawing, drilling, shaping, fastening, and finishing
•Knowledge of museum standards relating to the care of artifacts, including handling, display, transporting and packing
•Experience with various techniques and applications of latex, oil paint, enamel and epoxy to surface finishes
•Knowledge of standard metalsmith fabrication processes for aluminum, brass and/or steel, working with plate, rod, tube, angle and square stock
•Experience working with and assembling low-voltage LED lighting components, AV components and controls inside cabinets and display cases is desired
•Knowledge of design principles and aesthetics
•Able to read design and construction drawings, including digital applications and applicable software
•Safety standards regarding material, personnel, equipment
Ability to:
•Organize work processes and select work methods and procedures
•Set goals and monitor progress
•Work in noisy production shops, paint spray booth, and other production and maintenance areas for prolonged periods while standing, bending, and reaching, and wear Personal Protective Equipment (eye protection, hearing protection, dust masks and safety shoes) and other PPE as directed
•Work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple, competing tasks and demands and to seek supervisory assistance as appropriate
•Work in a multicultural environment
Qualifications
•High-school diploma or equivalent is required
•An undergraduate degree in studio art, construction or other related field is preferred
•Previous museum exhibition production experience is preferred
•A valid driver’s license is required
•Must be able to lift and carry 60 pounds, use freight elevators, walk up and down stairs, work on ladders, scaffolds, aerial work platforms and dock levelers
•Additional experience in the areas listed above may be substituted for the educational requirement
If you are interested in this exceptional opportunity, please log on to our website to review the complete job description. Interested parties may complete an employment application and submit it along with a resume and cover letter via email, fax or mail. Please note we are unable to accept resumes in place of an employment application.
LOCATION:
Anchorage Museum
Attn: Human Resources
625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501
(907) 929-9200 tel
www.anchoragemuseum.org/about-us/employment
Salary or Range: $24/hour
Learn More: https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/about-us/employment
Open Date: 9/19/2019
Closing Date: 10/15/2019
