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    Museum Technician - West Orange, United States - Department Of The Interior

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    This position is located in Thomas Edison National Historic Park, in the Northeast Region.

    • This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of four years. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service.
    Open to the first 50 applicants or until 05/03/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

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    This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of four years, or more based on any changes to regulations governing the number of years term appointments may last, without further competition. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service.

    The National Park Service retains the right to extend the duration of this appointment after selection and/or appointment, based on changes to the regulation governing the number of years term appointments may last. This change, which may be made at the agency's sole discretion and without further competition, shall not be construed or interpreted as the granting of a right to a selectee or employee to such an extension. No extension to a term appointment shall be granted to a selectee/employee to an amount of time that exceeds the maximum number of years authorized under any present or current regulation, unless such regulation expressly allows such action.

    Thomas Edison National Historical Park preserves the work and character of the famous American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, and the family, friends, business associates, and employees who played key roles in his success. The park is comprised of the last and largest of Edison's laboratory complexes, as well as Glenmont, the Edison family home. Located in West Orange, New Jersey, the red brick laboratory complex is the site of research that led to the first successful sound recordings, phonographs, and motion picture cameras.

    The park's museum collection is the product of Edison's sixty-year career as an inventor, manufacturer, businessman, and private citizen. It is by far the largest single body of Edison-related material extant and is the third-largest collection in the National Park Service with more than five million individual items. Housed both at the laboratory complex and the Glenmont estate, they include history artifacts ranging from laboratory equipment to experimental models, archives documenting Edison's work and life, and natural history holdings.Major duties include, but are not limited to the following:
    • Catalogs museum collections according to National Park Service Museum Collection guidelines.
    • Maintains museum records, including accession, catalog, and loan records, in accordance with National Park Service standards.
    • Implements housekeeping program and monitors the environment of the collection storage and exhibit areas by keeping records on temperature, relative humidity, and pest infestation.
    • Handles, cleans, stores, and labels objects in the museum collection.
    • Serves as team member, and at times a team leader, on curatorial projects such as the elimination of cataloging backlogs; photo documentation of collections; or the reorganization of storage areas.

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