Generic Job Description
Museum Technician I
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Assists with
the construction of museum exhibits, display cases, frames, housing, mounts,
lighting, theatrical sets and theater costumes through use of routine
woodworking, metal working, welding, carpentry, electrical, glazing, painting,
and stitchery techniques.
- Handles and moves works of art, scenery and other structures.
- Maintains the general upkeep of the museum, workshop, tools and
machinery.
- Provides and monitors security for the museum facility, contents,
and visitors.
- Oversees and instructs support staff.
- Assists with installing and disassembling exhibits/ sets. Fits
costumes on actors.
- May assist in framing, packing and unpacking works of art.
- May input to and retrieve information from museum collection management database.
- Performs clerical functions incidental to museum activities.
Family: Museum/Curatorial
Job Code: 578 Date: 2/89 (revised description 3/01)
The job duties listed
above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and
the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary
from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale
University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 578 Museum Technician I Grade C
Required Knowledge:
General knowledge, high school level; detailed but narrow work-related
knowledge in one or several work related areas; general acquaintance with
a broader field of knowledge.
Working knowledge of craft or trade.
Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.
Required Skills
Copies data form standard or easily understandable formats.
Understands more complicated written instruction, memoranda, policy statements.
Writes short informal notes, fills out simple forms.
Occasional use of more complex machines, such as word processors or personal
computers.
Office and Administrative
Skills
Enters and retrieves data from semi-finished source documents.
Experience, Education,
and Formal Training
Two years of related work experience and a high school level education;
or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization
Limited variety of job tasks requiring coordinating steps/procedures.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations
Some involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general
matters.
Understands and conveys more complex messages and instructions, and take
action accordingly.
Supervisory Guidelines
Work is closely reviewed for adequacy and accuracy daily.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign, and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, and procedures that
are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Occasional exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence
of Error
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm
or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or
to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions
Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
Occasional conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines, or emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
