Do you have relevant conservation experience and knowledge? Are you able to develop policies and workflows around preventive conservation?
About Us
The National Collections Centre (NCC) in Wroughton is a collections management facility housing a vast range of objects in the collection from microscope slides to railway carriages, other objects are stored in repurposed aircraft hangars, sustainable hempcrete constructed buildings and other facilities dispersed across the park.
We are now recruiting for a Senior Preventive Conservator join the Conservation & Collections Care team based at the NCC, working 35 hours per week on a permanent contract.
About the role
As Senior Preventive Conservator you will have both line management and project management responsibilities. Working with Science Museum Group (SMG) policies and protocols you will be instrumental in the development and delivery of a proactive preventive conservation programme providing focused and consistent preventive care for SMG collections.
In this role you be covering a diverse range of activities. You will be responsible for the collection, reporting and use of our environmental data, improving workflows and achieving consistency across the Group. You will draft and update our standard operating procedures and our collections salvage plans. You will also be involved with hazard management, including writing workflows, leading training and working with colleagues, including the Collections Hazards Officers, to plan and co-ordinate hazard surveying work.
You will work with internal and external stakeholders and provide advice on collection care, including assessing materials suitability for storage and display, making recommendations on suitable materials and applications.
About you
Joining us you have a relevant conservation qualification or equivalent practical experience and knowledge. You will have the ability to develop policies and workflows around preventive conservation.
You will have experience of project management and planning, using continuous improvement methodologies to create efficiencies around preventive conservation. You will also have proven experience working with diverse stakeholders, providing advice for the storage and transport of collection items.
Crucially you will have experience of working with a broad range of collections hazards coupled with a good level of knowledge and practical application of current UK Health and Safety practice within the following areas: manual handling, collections hazard management, use of power tools, lifting and moving equipment, writing Risk and COSHH assessments.
Applying
View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under ‘Attachments’ on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click ‘Apply Online’ to submit an application.
Don’t feel you meet all of the criteria? At SMG, we are committed to building a workforce that is open for all, and welcome you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t fit perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we currently offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; BUPA medical and dental care; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; enhanced occupational sick, maternity, paternity and adoption leave and career breaks.
‘Open for All’ is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.
We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures. We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.