About This Role
Working with fine art and museum objects is the core of this part-time Museum Technician role, which involves helping to install high-profile exhibitions across a large museum and gallery service. The post has a strong focus on new digital technologies and works across all Hull Museums sites.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support across the Hull Museums and Art Gallery service
- Install exhibitions, including construction, lighting, and audio visual
- Maintain permanent and temporary displays
- Handle museum objects and fine art
- Construct, repair, install, and maintain display cases, screens, plinths, barriers, and other items of display equipment in consultation with curatorial staff and the senior technician
- Maintain permanent displays to enable museums/gallery exhibits to be presented to the public to a high standard, and to minimise risk of damage or deterioration to the collections
- Set up, construct, and dismantle new displays and exhibitions across the heritage service, including picture framing, glazing, mount cutting, painting, etc., to ensure a high standard of visual presentation
- Perform driving and transportation duties, including packing/unpacking, loading/unloading, and movement of museum objects and fine art, both long-distance outside the city and between heritage service sites/other venues in Hull
- Provide to managers costs for technical work/materials/equipment from contractors or companies, for technical work across the heritage service
- Assist with operation and care of audio visual equipment, to ensure they are working at all times, which may also include assisting with events, exhibition openings, or external bookings out of hours
- Support the heritage service in the development and implementation of projects as required
- Handle and move museum objects and fine art under the supervision of the curator in charge
- Assist the rest of the technical team in supporting the curatorial team in delivering a rolling programme of exhibitions across the heritage service, and carry this out to a high standard and to set deadlines
- Take personal responsibility for your own health and safety and that of other employees, in addition to the Company’s overall duties as per the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and associated legislation
Requirements
- Technical qualification in engineering, metalwork, joinery, or similar technical skills (or equivalent experience)
- General technical experience, preferably in a heritage or art environment
Benefits
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service, plus eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off (one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period)
