Museum Artwork Preparations Technician

Huntington Public Library; San Marino (CA); Sur place; USD 39 000 - 40 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

403(b) retirement plan

Paid time off

Staff discounts

Free museum admission

Free guest passes

Résumé du poste

The Huntington in San Marino, California is seeking a skilled Preparator II to join the Preparation Department. You will assist in planning and implementing schedules for special exhibitions, rotate permanent collections, and care for objects to museum standards.

This is a hands‑on role involving packing, installation, mounting, and safe handling of artworks. Ideal candidates have 3–4 years in preparation or exhibitions, expertise with packing, crating, and heavy equipment, as well as experience

Qualifications

• Three to four years of experience in preparation, collections management, and installation in a gallery or museum setting.
• Expertise in industry standard materials, processes, equipment, and safety protocols.
• Excellent working knowledge of installation methods required.
• Proficiency in mounting, matting, framing of works on paper.
• Extensive experience using heavy equipment, including scissor-lift, gantry, pallet jack, pedal lift.
• Must have safe driving record.
• Demonstrated knowledge of art-handling procedures for two- and three-dimensional objects in various materials, sizes, and weights
• Knowledge of museum-quality packing, and crating.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
• Conduct self in a professional manner and establish positive working relationships with museum staff, representatives from other arts institutions, consultants, artists, and vendors.

Responsabilités

• Receiving, unpacking and packing artworks
• Assist curators in placement of artworks in galleries
• Handling and installing artworks and collections objects
• Hinging, matting and framing artworks
• Generating profiles and schematics for display mounts
• Creating or modifying display mounts and case risers/buildups
• Performing carpentry work such as retrofitting crates and modifying pedestals
• Spackling and painting
• Lighting exhibitions, to Curatorial and Preservation standards
• Monitoring and maintenance of exhibition lighting and A/V elements
• Performing regular gallery dusting and cleaning
• Assisting with buildouts of historic painting frames
• Organizing supplies and communicating resupply needs
• Driving art preparation vehicles to transport art on and off campus
• Attending and occasionally leading in-house training workshops in Huntington object prep procedures
• Providing guidance to Broad DAP apprentices during their placement at The Huntington
• Attending regular departmental meetings
• Attending object review meetings and consulting with Preservation Dept. on object prep needs
• Providing input to supervisors and colleagues on preparation and installation methods
• Sharing project status information with supervisor and colleagues
• Accessing FileMaker and TMS databases for object information
• Updating object preparation status via Excel
• Tracks and communicates object location changes

Connaissances

Art handling procedures

Heavy equipment operation

Safety protocols

Professional driving

Excellent communication

Outils

FileMaker

TMS

Excel

Outlook

Description du poste

The Huntington in San Marino, California is seeking a skilled Preparator II to join the Preparation Department. You will assist in planning and implementing schedules for special exhibitions, rotate permanent collections, and care for objects to museum standards.

This is a hands‑on role involving packing, installation, mounting, and safe handling of artworks. Ideal candidates have 3–4 years in preparation or exhibitions, expertise with packing, crating, and heavy equipment, as well as experience