Museum technician Defense Museum Boden
Boden, Sverige
Type of Employment Part-time
Job position Lighting technician: stage, film, TV
Work model On location
Application due date 27 April 2025
Are you the one?
Do you want to be part of the efforts to address the greatest challenges of our time, and be able to influence and leave something for future generations to develop? Then Boden Municipality is an employer for you! Boden is located in Norrbotten's coastal region, only 3 miles from the sea between two river valleys. Around 28,000 people live here. Boden is a modern small town close to most things, which creates a rewarding working and leisure life, what we call local life. Boden is located in the heart of an establishment-intensive region and is an important part of the green global social transition. A growing society is being created here, equipped to meet the green new industrialization, with smart and sustainable solutions for collaboration, housing, transport, everyday life and modern business. With strong support from competent colleagues and managers, you will have the courage to try. With us, you will be given great confidence in a fantastic environment, where there is the opportunity to develop yourself and others. Do you want to know more about what it is like to work in Boden municipality? Then you can read more here: www.boden.se/jobbaiboden The Defense Museum Boden and Rödbergsfortet tells the military-historical background of Boden's fortress, puts Boden and the forts (especially Rödbergsfortet) in an international, national and regional perspective. The museum runs exhibition and program activities, exhibition production, conference activities and café and museum shop activities. The Defense Museum Boden also shows several temporary exhibitions every year. Boden's art gallery has been housed in the Defense Museum Boden since 2022, where mainly local and regional art is shown. The Defense Museum Boden, Rödbergsfortet and Bodens konsthall are part of the library and museum unit. WORK TASKS As a museum technician, you are part of a team with a curator, educator, antiquarian and museum host. Together you are responsible for carrying out the exhibition productions of the Defense Museum Boden and Boden Art Gallery. In consultation with the exhibition manager, and often also the artists themselves, you install and light art and objects, install AV technology, and prepare the exhibition room for each new exhibition with everything from carpentry to painting. Exhibition production is an important part of the museums' activities as knowledge brokers and visitor destinations. The Defense Museum produces its own exhibitions, as well as smaller pop-up exhibitions and events. As the museum's technician, you have great responsibility for your own processes, for both planning and production. The assignment includes daily maintenance of exhibitions and premises, event preparations, support for work in the museums' collections and collaborations with external parties. You will be responsible for receiving shipments and unpacking and packing borrowed exhibitions and works of art. As a museum technician, you will be involved in developing good and sustainable solutions related to logistics, maintenance and technology in the museum environment. Occasional work at the museum's reception is included, as well as weekend work about 4 times a year. QUALIFICATIONS Knowledge of carpentry and lighting is desirable. It is also positive if you have a background in or experience of working with art, culture, museum activities or building conservation. We want our new colleague to be task-oriented and planned, outgoing and enterprising, as well as easy to build good relationships and enjoy working with and for museum visitors together with colleagues. You have a high sense of service and a flexible approach with the ability to prioritize. You are practical and able to work at a fast pace at times. The work is very varied, but places some special demands on you as an employee. There is heavy lifting and the work is carried out both outdoors and indoors in different types of environments. OTHER We value an even age and gender distribution and diversity in all professional areas. We have smoke-free working hours. We offer one wellness hour per week and a wellness allowance. Via our health portal, you as an employee can book yourself in for various wellness activities such as massages, trial training, lectures, etc. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram When you apply for a job with us, we want you to use our e-recruitment system. Questions about the position can be answered by the contact persons mentioned in the ad. We kindly but firmly decline any contact with media vendors, recruitment sites and the like.