Position Overview & Specifications
SEA LIFE Great Yarmouth
Norfolk Closing date for applications is: 20th Feb 2023 Contact: Michael Best (michael.best@merlinentertainments.biz)Sector: Animal Care
Type: Paid
Contract type: Full-time
Salary: £25,500 per annum
Dive into this Aquarium Displays Supervisor role for 9-months at SEA LIFE Great Yarmouth! If you’re passionate and have aquarium experience, then prepare for a world of glittering scales, humongous tentacles, and razor-sharp teeth!
There are lots of exciting things happening here to get your teeth stuck into! From our African dwarf crocodiles, to working on enrichment. We also have our new Rainforest Adventure area coming soon, so you may get closer to our bugs or get involved with their arrival and set-up.
What we are looking for
- Already an experienced aquarist
- Someone who has robust practical knowledge of aquatic animal husbandry, associated life support systems and public aquarium procedures, protocols and health and safety
- A self-motivated and proactive individual
- Willing to learn and step up into a leading role
In this full-time, 9-month, fixed-term role, you’ll report to the Aquarium Curator, helping to drive the continual development and innovation within the animal display areas. As well as ensuring outstanding animal husbandry and welfare. You’ll help to lead, empower, and encourage a team of aquarists and animal care specialists to undertake the vital day to day tasks involved in caring for over a thousand creatures.
You’ll be ensuring our vital life support systems are always operating accurately along with driving standards of cleanliness and presentation of our displays, always striving for best in class. Ensuring suitable diets and feed plans are in place, as well as robust health, medication, and treatment regimes for our many species, you’ll also continually develop our excellent animal welfare across the whole collection.
What’s in it for you
Alongside gaining experience as a Displays Supervisor, you’ll also receive:
- A salary of £25,500 per annum
- 25% discount in our retail shops and restaurants and 40% off LEGO online
- Merlin Magic Pass - giving you free tickets to all our attractions worldwide for you, your family, and friends every year
- Employee pricing up to 55% off cinema tickets
- Excellent experience at an outstanding aquarium with exciting new things coming soon