Penguin Keeper

**Penguin Keeper**

SEA LIFE Sydney, 1-5 Wheat Rd; Darling Harbour
Sydney, NSW, 2000
Australia

Are you passionate about conservation and creating incredible guest experiences for our multitude of visitors? Are you longing to be a member of our Penguin team, looking after a waddle of King and a raft of Gentoo penguins?

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our dynamic Curatorial Department as a full-time **Penguin Keeper.**

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**About the Role**

Our keepers connect guests with sea life through creating and maintaining engaging world-class displays, delivering memorable guest experiences and ensuring best-practice animal welfare.

**About You**

**Essential**:

- Minimum 2-years paid experience in a animal care role in a zoo or aquarium setting.
- Tertiary qualifications in animal care and/or marine biology.
- Be guest obsessed demonstrating a passion for guest experience, education and connecting people with sea life, sustainability and conservation.
- Experience in training and supervising volunteers/students in a zoo and/or aquarium setting.
- Experience in supporting the management of animal health in a zoo and/or aquarium setting.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible, cope with frequent and unpredictable changes to daily routine and workloads, and to work, at times under high pressure.
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, work unsupervised, assess tasks and set priorities for self.
- Current (or willingness to obtain at own expense) NSW Working with Children Check.
- Full NSW Driver’s License.
- SCUBA Diver - Rescue or willingness to obtain at own expense.

Desirable:

- Current First Aid / CPR / Oxygen Administration.
- ADAS Aquarium Diver.
- Experience in the training of animals in a zoo setting as either primary of secondary trainer using positive-reinforcement techniques.

Please submit a maximum ONE-page cover letter addressing the selection criteria and a maximum TWO-page resume.

Please note this is a physically demanding role. You need to be able to lift 20 kg to shoulder height and carry materials, transport boxes, buckets, and frozen fish throughout the facility. You are able to stand, walk and work for long periods in a cold environment.

**About the Benefits**

The salary for this role is competitive, and other benefits include:

- Corporate benefits including free access to all our attractions worldwide
- Domestic and global opportunities to develop and progress your skills and career in tourism and attractions
- Additional Leave (including birthday and wellbeing) and 3 volunteer days to give back to a social cause you care about
- Being part of a business built on fun

**About Us**

Merlin Entertainments is the company behind iconic brands like SEA LIFE, Madame Tussauds, LEGOLAND, and Peppa Pig World of Play. We operate in over 130 attractions across 25 countries, delivering memorable experiences to 54 million+ visitors a year. In Australia and New Zealand, we have 10 attractions, including SEA LIFE, Wild Life, Madame Tussauds, and the Fly Treetop Adventures, amongst others.

So, whether it’s meandering through the Great Barrier Reef, touching Cushion Sea-Stars at our rock pool or coming face-to-face with a dugong. These world class experiences are only made possible by the care, passion, dedication and commitment of our fantastic husbandry team, of which you will be an integral part of. These SEA LIFE teams are all built on the foundation of an incredible commitment to conservation and a need to share the beauty of our aquatic ambassadors with the world in an engaging and interactive way.

If you are a team player, and the thought of delivering this magic to over a million guests a year makes you smile, you are vibrant and passionate about educating guests and creating memorable experiences in a great company and team who Love What We Do, we want to hear from you

**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.

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