Exhibit Tech- Australia

**Job Title: Exhibit Technician- Australia** **Posting Date:** June 2026 **Job Department: Animal Care and Welfare** **Schedule:** Full Time **Job Type:** On-site **Location:** National Aquarium Pier 3 501 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 **JOB SUMMARY:** The National Aquarium is seeking an Exhibit Technician to join our Australia-Rainforest team to provide flexible coverage to animal and plant care roles within the department. Provides assigned specimens with excellent day-to-day care through approved husbandry practices; keeps exhibits, back-up spaces, support equipment, and workspaces well maintained and to National Aquarium standards; participates in the acquisition/disposition, transport and acclimation of specimens; participates in the design and maintenance of exhibits and back-up enclosures, including life support systems and equipment, as assigned. Fully accountable for animals and systems under care in assigned areas. Assists with training and mentoring volunteers and interns. **KEY REQUIREMENTS:** Essential responsibilities include: - Provides care and husbandry of assigned living specimens. Understands and implements specimen care that is concurrent with professional standards of animal welfare and well-being. Conducts annual welfare assessments for assigned specimens. - Completes inspection rounds of specimens, exhibits, life support equipment, and back-up spaces/tanks three times daily, reporting problems and independently resolving them where possible. - Prepares diets for assigned living collections in accordance with established dietary needs. Cleans and maintains kitchen and other food preparation areas, food preparation equipment and utensils daily or as required. - Follows established feeding schedules and provides appropriate food amounts to maintain specimens at a healthy weight and body condition. Monitors weights and monitors the body condition of specimens at assigned intervals. - Develops and utilizes various feeding techniques to overcome the challenges of feeding specimens housed in multi specimen/species enclosures. - Observes, reports, and collaborates with curatorial staff on the resolution of issues including specimen incompatibility, feeding challenges, specimen injury and illness, escaped animals, equipment maintenance and function, enclosure/exhibit insufficiencies, and time management issues. - Participates in propagation programs as assigned. - Maintains live food cultures as assigned. - Maintains detailed, daily husbandry records and reviews records regularly with curatorial staff to identify important trends. - Maintains current knowledge of the natural history and professional husbandry standards for all assigned specimens through hands-on experience, literature reviews, and/or symposium participation. - Maintains and updates area protocols with information on all assigned exhibits, back-up enclosures/tanks, and their associated life support systems. - Provides coverage notes, when absent, with specific husbandry instructions. - Understands current behavioral conditioning methodology with the ability to draft and implement animaltraining plans for assigned specimens. - Participates in the acquisition/disposition and transport of living specimens as assigned. - Responds to life-support and animal-related emergencies (including after hours) as assigned. - Provides back-up support to other areas, as assigned. - Maintains and remains current and compliant on all TRACKS related assignments. - Maintains a valid Maryland drivers’ license. - Observes, recognizes, and reports about medical conditions that may require attention. - Supports and participates in Animal Health case management and annual physicals of specimens as assigned, administer medications, and implements routine quarantine procedures as instructed. - Maintains current knowledge of all pumps, valves, filters, lighting timers, climate control equipment, water supply, etc. in assigned areas. - Conducts backwashing and other procedur…