Taxidermist

$35.00 to $36.00 hourly (to be negotiated)

Tasks

• Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
• Prepare and mount skins of birds or animals for preservation, scientific or display purposes
• Shave hides to uniform thickness
• Remove flesh and loose hair from hides and pelts
• Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
• Prepare solutions to clean, dehair, pickle, oil or tan hides and skins
• Follow formulation card to mix resin batches for injection moulding process
• Ensure details follow the project's original intention

Supervision

• Hide and pelt processing workers

Technical experience

• Taxidermy

Exhibit preparation experience

• Dioramas
• Castings and moulds
• Shipping crates and forms

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