Aquarist

What you'll bring to the team

AQUARIST

Collective Goal: Ensure that every guest we welcome enjoys a magical, memorable, world-class guest experience and that every member of our team embraces and exhibits our company values (known collectively as The Merlin Way).

Scope of job: The Aquarist, works alongside the Displays team to m

aintain all aspects of the daily care, feeding, and life support system maintenance of our diverse collection of freshwater and marine animals including elasmobranches, fish, reptiles, and invertebrates

Qualifications & Experience

Essential Functions:

• Provide daily care of animal exhibits including diet preparation, feeding and general care and maintenance of aquatic exhibits in accordance with established protocols.

• Maintain and prepare accurate daily records for reptile and aquarium systems, exhibit specimens, dive related and animal health related paperwork.

• Assist with specimen transports, water quality testing, quarantine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases

• Deliver interactive programming to guests and guest presentations involving displays and exhibit diving. Participate in guest relations/interactions and perform daily public presentations as needed.

• Assist Displays staff with the husbandry and life support of aquarium systems while ensuring a consistently high standard of animal care.

• Work with Displays team to provide the animal care, cleaning and maintenance of aquarium displays requiring SCUBA diving (i.e., 200,000-gallon tropical ocean display)

• Maintain company issued dive gear and diver areas to the standards and expectations of SEA LIFE policies and protocols.

• Deliver interactive programming to guests and guest presentations involving displays and exhibit diving. Participate in guest relations/interactions and perform daily public presentations as needed.

• Assist Displays staff with the husbandry and life support of aquarium systems while ensuring a consistently high standard of animal care.

• Assist in the continual development of the display’s areas in line with the long-term goals of the company.

• Other duties as assigned 

Benefits

Benefits

About the Perks

In return you will find a competitive salary and benefits package (including a medical, vision, dental, life insurance and 401(k) matching plan offering), share program opportunities, and benefit from free entry to all of our Merlin attractions which also extend to family and friends. In addition, you can expect continued growth of joining an exciting, global organization.

Everyone Matters at Merlin.  At Merlin we welcome the world to our magical attractions and resorts every day and we want to reflect that same multicultural mix inside our business too. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves, have the same opportunities and thrive together. Because at Merlin, everyone matters! Together, we work to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, no matter their age, race, gender, disability or sexual orientation. Although we understand that we'll always be learning and growing, we aim to be the most inclusive and flexible employer in our industry. 

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform their best at an interview, so if you have any additional requirements due to ill health or a disability, please contact our friendly team to have a discussion. You can get in contact at NAPeopleHUB@merlinentertainments.biz.

Pay Range

Salary : $18