Working within our Conservation and Collections Care Team, this role is part of a 5 month project to reorganise a storage area on-site. Your role will be to preserve the objects and safeguard our collections during this process. Using best professional practice, you will ensure we meet strategic and statutory requirements within our budget constraints.
You will lead on the preventative conservation areas of packing and protecting objects in store, dust, vibration and environmental monitoring elements. You will also undertake all aspects of interventive objects conservation on a wide range of materials, including condition checking, assessing, and documentation. This is a fixed term contract for 5 months. What you will be doing: Improve storage areas where required to preserve the collection. Prepare condition and treatment reports with annotated images for items conserved and input this information into MIMSY XG database. Prepare condition and storage recommendation reports. Participate in safe management and awareness of hazards within the collections; complying with current Health and Safety regulations, in-house policies and safe working practices in the Conservation lab and object stores. Plan and execute your own programme of priorities outlined in the project on time and to budget, complying with best professional practice and statutory requirements. Undertake remedial conservation of objects within the collection to a high professional standard. Manage all elements of environmental monitoring, report back and act to improve conditions where necessary. Assist in the general administration of the CCC team, to ensure that this is done in an environmentally sound and economical manner. Taking care of your personal health and safety and that of others. Complying with the Science Museum Group H&S Policies, risk assessments and safe systems of work and reporting any health and safety concerns. Undertaking any other tasks required to fulfil the duties of this role. Location: Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Reports to: Conservation & Collections Care Manager Type: Fixed-Term Salary: Up to £22,000 pa, dependent on experience Hours: 36.25 per week For more information and to apply please visit https://group.sciencemuseum.org.uk/careers/ Sarah Bird Conservator - MSI ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
