Temporary Quarry Experience Guide Edelman Fossil Park & Museum - Gallagher & Associates

Position Overview:

Edelman Fossil Park & Museum is seeking Quarry Experience Guides to assist with our Quarry Fossil Dig Experience. The ideal candidate for this position is friendly, engaging, and eager to get our visitors excited about the experience they will have in the quarry. A Quarry Experience Guide will work well under pressure and is adept at interacting with visitors. In this position, you would work closely with the Visitor Experience Manager, Education Manager, Visitor Experience Coordinator, and Volunteer Coordinator. Experience in customer service, paleontology or archaeology, and fossil identification are advantageous. This role reports directly to the Visitor Experience Manager.

Qualifications:

• Experience in a customer service setting 
• Teaching experience and museum experience is advantageous
• Experience with fossil hunting and identification
• Experience with admissions and/or Point-of-Sale systems
• Strong customer service skills
• Must be dedicated to addressing the biodiversity and climate crises
• Must be a highly collaborative, mission-driven person
• Reliable transportation to and from the museum
• An ability to engage in moderately strenuous all-weather outdoor activity is required
• Bachelor’s degree a plus

Work Setting:

• A four-acre fossil quarry that exposes five formations that include the K/Pg horizon. Visitors dig in the Paleocene layer. Please be aware that the quarry gets significantly hotter than regular surface temperature and has little to no respite from direct sunlight. 
•  This is a seasonal, part-time position with G&A Museum Operations Mantua, LLC, based at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, in Mantua Township, NJ with a start date of June 1, 2026. The season runs from June 1, 2026 through September 7, 2026. Seasonal part-time guides can also opt to be available to work over the winter holidays in 2026 and during the weeks preceding and following Easter in 2027.
•  The role will require weekend work and occasional evening work.
• The role requires work outdoors. Rotations every thirty minutes switch back and forth between work in the shade and work in the sun.
• Must engage in strenuous activity and may be required to move objects up to 50lbs.

Start Date: June 1, 2026

Applications will be accepted until Friday, March 20. Phone screenings will be conducted between Monday, March 23 and Friday, April 3. Interviews will be conducted on site at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays between April 7 and 23. Decisions will be communicated by Thursday, April 30, 2026.

Shifts:

3-4 days per week including at least one weekend day, 8:30am-2pm, 1pm-5:30pm, 8:30am-5pm

Work Location: In person in Mantua, NJ