Collections Construction Technician

Job Title: Collections Construction Technician
Department: Collection Support
Reports To: Construction Services Manager
Pay Range: $18 - $22/hour
Year Created: 2025

OVERVIEW
Collections focused construction support for exhibitions, historic properties, and exceptional experiences

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The following responsibilities describe the general nature of work for employees in this position, but this is not intended as an exclusive or all-inclusive inventory.

• Prepare, build, and demolish gallery and aesthetic walls, floors, and doorframes for exhibitions, including patching, finishing, and painting walls, locating, and moving gallery furnishings, and implementing exhibition designs.
• Construct, erect, install, renovate, maintain, and paint structures made of wood, drywall, steel stud framing, plastics, and other construction materials.
• Support and assist the Construction Services Manager, contractors, and painters.
• Measure, cut, assemble, and finish lumber, trims, and fixtures needed for the museum and historic outbuildings projects.
• Load, unload, and transport materials, tools, and equipment.
• Handle miscellaneous construction duties associated with temporary and permanent exhibition projects.
• Work within the Collection Support preparator crew with appreciation of the team and its mission.

Other duties may be assigned. To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

REQUIRED SKILLS
• Proficient in various carpentry, woodworking, and finish techniques.
• Experienced in use of hand and power tools, machines, equipment, and hardware along with excellent manual dexterity.
• Knowledgeable in construction, drywall, and finishing techniques.
• Knowledgeable in wall repair and interior and exterior wall painting.
• Demonstrated ability to be organized and manage multiple tasks or projects simultaneously.
• Experienced with reading blueprints, designs, and layouts.
• Ability to read, write and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and group situations to other employees.
• Ability to erect, move, operate, and work from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and aerial lifts.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Capable of solving problems using both clear or partially available information.
• Ability to calculate figures, proportions, and amounts from design layouts. Algebra helpful.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
A professional level of knowledge is needed in a specialized field, equivalent to that which would be acquired by completing a two-year college or trade program and two years of job-related experience.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to sit, climb, or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the position. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.