Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Repair and preserve historic exhibits, buildings, structures, and other historic features of cultural or environmental interest
• Provide conservation and historic preservation services to the historic artillery collections, structures, and unique exhibits in and outside of the national monuments
• Conduct thorough assessments, prior to service, of pieces in the museum’s artillery collection for their current condition, surveying for any damages that may have occurred due to aging, weathering, and constant foot traffic
· Assist in historic preservation work in a variety of trade skills and crafts such as masonry, painting, roofing, and carpentry for the treatment of historic properties
· Research, investigate, evaluate, and record data pertaining to past and current physical condition of historic artillery pieces/structures
· Document and recognize differences between periods and styles of architectural design, historic details, and character defining elements · Differentiate historic materials from modern materials
· Perform nondestructive investigations
· Perform preservation treatments on historic structures and/or ruins built of mortar, adobe, stone, wood, and/or a combination of building materials
· Record data related to inspections in field notes annotated with sketches, measured drawings, and photographs
· Identify deficiencies in historic structures, causes of deterioration/failures · Assemble progress and completion reports
· Adeptly conversant of new techniques to resolve previously unresolved restoration and/or preservation issues
· Research and recommend treatment alternatives · Assist others with conducting work involving historic lime, concrete, historic earth, brick, block, stone, and adobe · Assist others in projects involving historic wooden features and/or a combination of building materials
· Skillfully perform conservation/preservation services of national treasures (iron/bronze cannons and mortars) and historic structures
· Educate and immerse in the parks natural and cultural resources, daily activities, traditions, and historical interpretation · Interact with park visitors in a kind, friendly, and educational manner
· Proactively respond to inquiries from park staff and contractors
· Develop and maintain good relations with park staff and other groups to achieve accomplishment of assigned work
· Professionally collaborated with historic architects, engineers, architectural conservators, historians, archeologists, and other natural resource professionals and park managers when developing appropriate management guidelines
· Train in federal government National Park Service policies
· Train in Defensive Driving, Lock Out/Tag Out, electrical safety, OSHA Fall Prevention, and Full-Body Harness and maintenance
· Train in the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for the treatment of historic properties
· Record accurate and pertinent information in relation to park assets, maintenance, construction requirements, and accomplishments
· Maintain significant records throughout service, viable and precise documentation of all conservation/historic preservation services