Assistant Museum Maintainer/Assistant Collections Maintainer at the Brooklyn Museum
Job Title: Assistant Museum Maintainer/Assistant Collections Maintainer
Job Status: Full-time
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $48,290.66
Description
Assistant Museum Maintainer/Assistant Collections Maintainer
The Assistant Museum Maintainer/Assistant Collections Maintainer performs a variety of tasks to maintain the artworks on open display, including removal of accumulated dust and maintenance to ensure the installation functions properly. The position also assists Conservators and Museum Maintainers with art handling, framing, and installation projects. This position is ideal for applicants considering a career in Collections Care.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or its equivalent; degree in an arts-related or Museum Studies-related field preferred
- Previous paid experience working with collection materials
- Responsible, organized, and highly detail-oriented
- Experience and facility working with tools
- Excellent dexterity skills, ability to handle a wide variety of artworks, and capacity to manipulate both heavy and fragile objects
- Physical ability to perform manual labor requiring complete mobility, including extensive bending, stretching, kneeling, and climbing stairs and ladders, as well as carrying light to heavy weight objects
- Ability to visually identify objects and read accession numbers
Responsibilities:
- Perform regular maintenance of the Period Rooms
- Clean and maintain Museum objects on display, including furniture, ceramics, glass, metals, and installation artworks
- Vacuum and remove accumulated dust near artworks in the galleries
- Perform heavy and/or difficult tasks, which may require working on or from vehicles, ladders, scaffolds, platforms, etc.
- Assists with art and mount storage, art movement, art gathering and study presentation
- Creates storage housings, applies accession numbers, maintains storages.
- Assist the Collections Management team with all Integrated Pest Management activities
- Installation assistance and other duties as assigned
- 100% of this position will be spent on activities related to direct care as defined by the American Association of Museums
Starting date: Immediate
Department: Conservation
R eports to: Chief Conservator
Position Type: Full-time
Salary: $48,290.66
Union Status: Union – DC37 Local 1502
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Brooklyn Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants for positions are considered without regard to race, creed, color, country of origin, sex, age, citizenship, disability or sexual orientation. Candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply.