Do you have hands-on experience maintaining and repairing water systems for aquatic life? Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens seeks a Full-Time Life Support Operator to maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot the aquaculture systems that support our aquatic and semi-aquatic species.

The Zoo’s REZOOVENATION: The Campaign to Inspire. The campaign that expands animal care, wellness facilities, and enhances guest experiences. This position will directly support these initiatives while maintaining all aquatic systems throughout the Zoo, ensuring optimal water quality and animal well-being.

As a subject matter expert, you will operate, repair, and maintain both manual and automated life support systems, including recirculating aquaculture systems, ozone generators, backwash systems, pumps, filtration systems, valves, UV sterilizers, HVAC systems, and integrated water quality monitoring systems. You will work in freshwater and saltwater habitats, including the 330,000-gallon Manatee River aquarium within the Manatee Critical Care Center expansion.
You may perform aquatic husbandry duties to ensure optimal water quality, including monitoring parameters, managing fecal matter, and minimizing interactions with species to maintain a healthy environment. Each day involves collaboration across teams, precise water testing, technical problem-solving, and adjustments to optimize living conditions for aquatic life.

Help us achieve our mission of “Connecting communities with wildlife and wild places.”

Environmental Quality provides internal services to Mystic Aquarium’s animal care teams. Demonstration of a positive, can-do attitude and a teamwork focused work ethic are always required.

The Life Support System Systems (LSS) Technician is responsible for daily operations, monitoring, maintenance, and repair of primary and ancillary aquatic life support system equipment while ensuring the highest standard of care for Mystic Aquarium’s animal collection.

This position assists the Manager of Life Support Systems in: monitoring, preserving, and modifying existing water treatment processes; installing new equipment and process components; and identifying/acquiring critical equipment, components, supplies, and consumables.

The LSS Technician is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all large scale LSS systems within the Frost Science Museum complex. This staff person also assists the Aquarist Team as needed with respect to modifications / additions regarding the small scale, self-standing LSS packages and LSS systems at Batchelor Environmental Center. The LSS Technician works collaboratively throughout the Museum in a creative environment and contributes to the efficient operation of the department. This position works a schedule set by the supervisor and may encompass non-traditional days and hours and may be asked to report to work for life support or animal care emergencies.

This position is assigned to both BEC holding facility and Frost Science facility.

This position plans and directs the academic and technical operations of the Aquarium Science Program. Working collaboratively with the Director of Facilities, this position will plan and implement building and equipment maintenance.

The Director of Aquarium Science Program will be responsible for outreach and collaboration with academic and industry-wide entities and secondary and post-secondary partners (STEM) to further the mission of the college. This position provides coordination to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programing throughout Oregon Coast Community College’s service area.

The Supervisor of Aquatics & Life Support Systems is responsible for the daily care of ZooTampa’s aquatic animal collection and the safe, effective operation of life support systems and water quality management.

This role provides leadership to aquatics staff, ensures compliance with AZA accreditation standards and regulatory requirements, and supports exhibit design, veterinary care, and collection management.

Working closely with Animal Department leadership, the Supervisor combines husbandry expertise, technical LSS knowledge, and team development skills to ensure the highest standards of animal welfare and guest experience.

The Supervisor of Aquatics & Life Support Systems is responsible for the daily care of ZooTampa’s aquatic animal collection and the safe, effective operation of life support systems and water quality management. This role provides leadership to aquatics staff, ensures compliance with AZA accreditation standards and regulatory requirements, and supports exhibit design, veterinary care, and collection management. Working closely with Animal Department leadership, the Supervisor combines husbandry expertise, technical LSS knowledge, and team development skills to ensure the highest standards of animal welfare and guest experience.

The Construction and Maintenance Worker, Water Quality, supports San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s mission and vision of saving species worldwide, by combining their trade technical expertise with high internal customer service, to take the best possible care of assigned facilities. This position maintains aquatic life support systems that ensure safe, stable environments for wildlife and guests. This includes monitoring water chemistry, maintaining pumps and filtration systems, and supporting collaborative care of aquatic habitats. This position reports to C&M Lead, Supervisor or Manager.

The Aquarium maintenance Technician is responsible for daily preventative maintenance, equipment monitoring, maintenance and repair of life support system equipment, designing and building or repairing exhibits ,installing new equipment, and basic building maintenance. This position reports to the animal care manager.

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium is seeking an Aquatic Life Support Technician to perform maintenance and monitoring of all equipment associated with aquatic animal exhibits and public water feature operation and maintenance. This includes pumps, sand filters, UV sterilizers, heat exchangers, ozone generators and other equipment that is critical to animal and public health. The Aquatic Life Support Technician works closely with animal care and facilities staff in order to complete critical tasks related to the maintenance of life support systems (LSS) and to ensure the maintenance of designated water quality parameters as well as providing reliable technical assistance to all zoo staff as needed. The Aquatic Life Support Technician ensures all public water features meet Nebraska DHHS standards while open to the public. Other responsibilities include design, construction, and modification of aquatic life support systems around the zoo. This position reports directly to the Aquatic Life Support Supervisor.

Supervise, plan and coordinate a variety of Biological Park services, activities, operations and maintenance of life support systems and aquatic facilities; coordinate assigned activities with other divisions, outside agencies and the general public and provide highly responsible and complex staff assistance to the Aquarium Manager.