Taxidermist
Job detail
Overview
Languages- English
Education- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience- 5 years or more
Duties
- Prepare and mount skins of birds or animals for preservation, scientific or display purposes
- Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
- Shave hides to uniform thickness
- Prepare solutions to clean, dehair, pickle, oil or tan hides and skins
- Follow formulation card to mix resin batches for injection moulding process
- Remove flesh and loose hair from hides and pelts
- Ensure details follow the project’s original intention
- Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
Experience and specialization
Technical experience
- Taxidermy
Exhibit preparation experience
- Dioramas
- Castings and moulds
- Shipping crates and forms
Area of specialization
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Small animals
- Large animals
- Exotic animals
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Parking available