Job Description
$35.00 to $36.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
Tasks
- Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
- Prepare and mount skins of birds or animals for preservation, scientific or display purposes
- Shave hides to uniform thickness
- Remove flesh and loose hair from hides and pelts
- Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
- Prepare solutions to clean, dehair, pickle, oil or tan hides and skins
- Follow formulation card to mix resin batches for injection moulding process
- Ensure details follow the project's original intention
Supervision
- Hide and pelt processing workers
Technical experience
- Taxidermy
Exhibit preparation experience
- Dioramas
- Castings and moulds
- Shipping crates and forms