Job Descriptions

Current Job Vacancies:

The Mariners’ Museum accepts applications for employment for current job vacancies only.
Openings are posted as they occur. Selected candidates will be contacted for an interview. No phone calls or e-mails please.

Please check below for a listing of current full-time and part-time opportunities.

Full-Time

USS Monitor Center Conservator

The Mariners’ Museum seeks a full-time Conservator.

Purpose:

The conservator will undertake the direct treatment and preventive conservation care of objects recovered from the wreck of the USS Monitor in consultation with the Director, USS Monitor Center. This individual will work closely with conservation staff and other museum personnel to conserve artifacts and to prepare them for exhibition and/or long-term storage.

Duties:

• Conduct examination, documentation, and artifact treatment within the Monitor collection following established conservation procedures, methodologies, and ethics.  
• When necessary, based on the conservation needs of an artifact, develop new conservation techniques and procedures in consultation with the Senior Conservator and/or Director, USS Monitor Center.
• Maintain detailed before, during, and after treatment records including both written and photographic documentation.
• Support preventative conservation methodology, initiate requests, implement solutions under established conservation guidelines, and make recommendations for resolving difficult or unusual problems.
• Construct storage support systems for artifacts with special needs directly; otherwise provide instruction/oversight to the Monitor Conservation Technician.
• Consult/work directly with the Senior Conservator, Director, USS Monitor Center, and Exhibit Design in the preparation of mounts/installation of artifacts within the museum’s galleries; this includes providing the requirements for lighting and environmental conditions. Also, provide recommendations on the ability for objects to travel outside the museum based on their condition post-treatment.
• Assist in the maintenance/operation of laboratory equipment and facility, and participate in the ordering of supplies and additional equipment as required.
• Promote the importance of conservation within the museum and in an outreach capacity whenever possible. 
• Other miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Working knowledge of acceptable practices for conservation and maintenance of objects.
• Working knowledge of the archaeological method and practices.
• Working knowledge of analytical equipment and methods, not limited to but including FT-IR, SEM, XRF, digital radiography, optical microscopy, chloride analysis, metals sample preparation, and film/digital photography.
• Working knowledge of metal fabrication and welding preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop.
• Organizational skills necessary for planning/organizing of professional seminars, lectures, workshops, and publications.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Familiarity with accepted practices for achieving and insuring safety in the laboratory.
• Continued professional development in the conservation field.
• Development of educational materials/activities for public outreach.

Experience:

• Familiarity with a wide variety of materials including metals and organics required; experience with objects from a marine environment.
• A minimum of four years conservation experience is required, including work with marine archaeological materials.

Education, Licensure, Certifications:

• A Master’s degree (or equivalent) in conservation or related field is required.

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Online applications - No phone calls please. 

Part-Time

Visitor Services Associate

The Mariners’ Museum seeks a Visitor Services Associate (Part-Time). The purpose of this position is to greet Museum visitors at Admissions or in the Shop in a friendly and positive manner. Conducts sales and transactions in an efficient and accurate manner. Provides knowledgeable answers to inquires for information about the Museum’s exhibitions, products and campus.

Duties:

• Cross-trained to work Admissions, shop and boat dock.
• Initiate and complete all sales transactions with visitors using Altru system.
• Make sales, customer services, handle cash, and accounting for sales and receipts. Ensure that all transactions are processed quickly and accurately. Balance at the end of each shift.
• Ensure that all displays, rack cards, brochures and other supplies are well stocked at all times.
• Answer phone and processing phone sales in a timely and accurate manner.
• Understand and sell Memberships to the Museum.
• Participate in annual physical inventory count and routine cycle counts.
• Restock store with products from the stock room and cage.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Excellent customer service and communications skills.
• Proficiency in Altru, Microsoft Office Software. preffered.

Experience:

• Minimum of two year’s experience in sales, customer service and cash handling.


Education, Licensure, Certifications:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Food Handling Card through the Health Department.

Conditions of Employment:

• Weekends, holidays, and evening required.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE!
Online applications - No phone calls please. 

Benefits

The Mariners' Museum offers a comprehensive benefits package for regular full-time staff, and their eligible dependents which includes medical and dental insurance (cost-sharing involved) as well as term life insurance, long term disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a 403 (B) pension plan. In addition, paid vacation, sick leave and holiday pay is provided to all regular full-time staff.

The Mariners’ Museum is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access employer and actively encourages applications from minorities, women, disabled persons and veterans.