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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
Area of specialization
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Small animals
- Large animals
- Exotic animals
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Parking available