Job Description

Overview 

Languages- English

Education- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience- 5 years or more

Duties

• Prepare and mount skins of birds or animals for preservation, scientific or display purposes
• Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
• Shave hides to uniform thickness
• Prepare solutions to clean, dehair, pickle, oil or tan hides and skins
• Follow formulation card to mix resin batches for injection moulding process
• Remove flesh and loose hair from hides and pelts
• Ensure details follow the project’s original intention
• Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens

Experience and specialization

Technical experience

• Taxidermy

Exhibit preparation experience

• Dioramas
• Castings and moulds
• Shipping crates and forms

Area of specialization

• Painting
• Sculpture
• Small animals
• Large animals
• Exotic animals

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Handling heavy loads

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Disability benefits
• Health care plan
• Vision care benefits

 Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Parking available