Preservation Technician Duxford, England
Job description
Opportunity ID
290
The Preservation Technician works as part of the preservation team on range of activities to deliver and maintain preventive conservation across IWM sites. The role plays an important part in achieving both the highest standards of collections care at IWM and the best possible experience for IWM’s visitors.
The focus of the role is to carry out conservation cleaning, including responsibility for the cleaning of objects on open display and the cleaning of storage areas, and to support preservation programmes of work including, IWM’s Integrated Pest Management (IPM), environmental monitoring and control, hazard awareness, and collections emergency planning and salvage.
The role includes the opportunity to work closely with other teams and supports the development of permanent and temporary exhibitions. This post is based at Duxford but may be required to work across all sites depending on need.
Your duties will include:
- Develop and deliver a programme of conservation cleaning for objects on display working with IWM stakeholders (including the Large Object Conservation team and the Exhibitions and Interpretation teams) and partnership organisations.
- Develop and deliver a targeted storage cleaning programme working with the Project Delivery team.
- Maintain and update thorough records of conservation cleaning activities; review and develop a conservation cleaning schedule. Align efficient access for other annual management checks.
- Budget, order and set up resources and equipment to support conservation cleaning at IWM sites.
- Identify training requirements (particularly access equipment training).
- Assessing the condition of collection items relevant to your area of work
- Support Preservation staff to deliver Integrated Pest Management systems, maintain the Hanwell Environmental Monitoring system and the Collection Disaster Recovery Plan.
- Undertake dust analysis and monitoring programmes to inform an annual cleaning schedule.
- Ensure that all paper based, and electronic documentation is accurate and centrally held.
- Undertake and support safe handling, packing and movement of collections.
- Support the installation and decant of objects within exhibitions, displays or storage.
- Set up, use and provide support the use of specialist equipment. Carry out pre- and post- use inspections on equipment- notifying issues arising on return of equipment to stores.
- Demonstrate an understanding of hazards relating to your work.
- Follow agreed risk assessments and method statements and ensure that your work practices and the area for which you are responsible comply with relevant Health & Safety regulations and guidelines, minimising risk to yourself and others.
- Supervise the work of contractors, interns, students, and volunteers in accordance with IWM policy, procedures and guidance.
- Keep work qualifications, skills and knowledge up to date.
- Exercise judgement and good practice when undertaking work with collections
For a full list of duties and the person specification (which your application will be marked against) please view the Job Description
July 3rd 2023, 9:55 AM
Interviews for this post are planned for the week commencing 10th Juluy 2023
The benefits listed below are discretionary and IWM reserves the right, with due notice, to vary or withdraw them at any time. All such benefits apply during the course of your employment only.
- Our generous full-time equivalent annual leave allowance is 25 days per annum plus public holidays rising to 30 days after 5 years.
- Access to our Company Group Pension Plan with competitive Employer Contributions.
- Access to select a range of benefits to suit your personal circumstances and lifestyle via our benefits platform, IWM4me. IWM4me offers IWM staff a wide range of health, protection, and lifestyle benefits, many at corporate rates not available on the high street.
- Free sanitary products provided at all sites.
- 20% discount in all IWM’s on-site shops.
- A 25% discount in IWM’s cafes.
- Free entry to all IWM Air shows at IWM Duxford.
- Free entry to a large number of other museums & galleries and their exhibitions which we have reciprocal arrangements with.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits dependent on length of service.
- Access to our in-house training programmes and development
- Access to an interest free season ticket loan scheme after three months service.
- Access to a Cycle 2 Work Scheme
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, and Career Development Advice.
- IWM staff also have access to The Charity for Civil Servants services and support.
- IWM staff are entitled to membership of the Benenden Healthcare Society (subject to their terms & conditions.
- Eligibility to join the Civil Service Sports Club, securing additional discounts and benefits.
- Access to social events run by groups with IWM.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This role is subject to:
A basic check, which shows unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
IWM is committed to a policy of Equal Opportunities.
We miss out when people feel IWM isn't for them, and are committed to removing and reducing barriers to make IWM open to everyone.
Our Access and Inclusion strategy has been developed to promote openness, equal opportunities to access, inclusivity and encourage diversity in everything that we do, from employment practices, the services we provide to our visitors to the facilities we make available to public.
At IWM we seek to address the need for greater diversity within our workforce as well as the wider museum and heritage sector. In all our practices we embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from suitable candidates of all backgrounds.
