Aquarist Jobs

Aquarist

SEA LIFE New Jersey, 1 American Dream Way, Suite A
East Rutherford, New Jersey, 7073
United States

Do you love looking after animals? Do you enjoy hands-on projects and educating kids? If so, build yourself a more exciting future at SEA LIFE New Jersey as our Aquarist! We are looking for a team member to join our Displays team and perform daily maintenance and routine husbandry of SEA LIFE's marine, freshwater, and reptile exhibits.

About The Role
As an Aquarist, you will work alongside the Displays team to maintain 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. Compensation for this role starts at $21.50/hour.

About Your Job

• Assist with specimen transports, water quality testing, quarantine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases
• Assist in the continual development of the displays areas in line with the long term goals of the company.
• Ability to meet AZA, USDA and Merlin Health and Safety standards.
• Maintain company issued dive gear and diver areas to the standards and expectations of SEA LIFE policies and protocols.
• Assist Displays staff with the husbandry and life support of aquarium systems while ensuring a consistently high standard of animal care.
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Education:
B.A/B.S. degree in Life Sciences (Biology, Marine Biology, Zoology, Psychology) or certification from an accredited aquarium science/zoological program is required.

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), 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 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 [email protected].