Exhibit Technician

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 73048
Ministry: Arts, Culture and Status of Women
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent and Wage
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: July 29th, 2025
Classification: Information & Creative Technical Services 4

**Salary**: : $2,302.69 - $3,015.79 bi-weekly ($60,100 - $78,712/year)
Wage: $31.76 - $41.60 per hour

The Ministry of Arts, Culture and Status of Women works to improve Albertans’ quality of life through support of cultural development, historical preservation and increased gender equality. The Royal Alberta Museum collects, preserves, researches, interprets, and exhibits objects and specimens related to the heritage of Alberta’s people and natural environment. In collaboration with other branches within Heritage Division, the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) Branch is responsible for designing and producing galleries, exhibits, and interpretive features for 18 of the division's museums (including RAM), historic sites and interpretive centres located throughout Alberta. The RAM Branch's Visitor Experience Unit is instrumental in leading this work.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Being a generalist with a degree of technical skills in several areas, you are comfortable with fabrication (carpentry, metalwork), installing exhibit components (cases, plinths, objects) according to plans and elevations, and finishing galleries while following design specifications. You lead your work in collaboration with team members in a multidisciplinary museum environment, where you organize and implement the specially designed components scoped out earlier in the development process.

You possess digital technology skills that position you as the team’s AV champion and knowledge keeper. You maintain various AV systems and equipment (screens, projectors, sound systems, media players), set up and operate gallery lighting systems, and repair simple mechanical and/or low voltage electrical interactives, ensuring that all components are maintain to the highest standards and specifications.

Key responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

- Working from detailed/measured drawings created by Exhibit Designers, to integrate the plans to assemble build exhibit components such as walls and assembly of exhibit furniture
- Using standard shop tools (e.g. table saw, band saw, sanders, jointers, etc.) to fabricate and finish exhibit display components and prototypes.
- Install and disassemble exhibits and other interpretive experiences.
- Confirm proper installation as per plans.
- Develop and implement rigging solutions for overhead or aerial display components within an exhibit.
- Familiarity with Projectors (and projection blending), Digital signage players,
- Networking equipment, Audio system configuration, Custom-build computer systems and software.
- Gallery lighting network and control systems,
- Provide recommendations on constraints and options affecting the budget in the implementation of projects
- Maintain a safe, tidy workshop environment and maintain tools/equipment as required.
- Lead and participate in project teams and various committees, as assigned.
- Complete other related duties as assigned by the Manager and/or Lead Exhibit Technician.

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**APS Competencies**:

- Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
In this role, you will contribute to our team by demonstrating the following behavioral competencies:

- **Agility** - Works in a changing environment and adjusts behavior to change.
- **Develop Networks**- Looks broadly to engage stakeholders.
- **Systems Thinking** - Impact of strategies and changes on the work of clients, stakeholders, and team members and support organization vision and goals through strategic planning of tasks and considerin

relationships between different work approaches and their impact on different programs, divisions and ministries.
- **Creative Problem Solving**:

- Facilitate the creation of a work environment for generating and finding newer ideas to solve existing and potential problems.
- **Drive for Results** - Design and manage projects to achieve intended outcomes and deliverables within allotted timeframes and budget.
- **Build Collaborative Environment**:

- Lead and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Recruitment Standards (MRS)**:

- University graduation in Applied Museum Studies, Audiovisual, Digital Technologies, or trades certification in relevant field(s) plus three years experience in exhibit production and/or audio-visual technica