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Love color, love creativity, love art, love the Eagle arts community?

Come join the Finer Frames family!

 

Custom Picture Framer – Sales and Designer

Compensation: $14 to $17 Hourly

Benefits Offered: 401K

Part-Time (20-30hrs per week)

 A Finer Frames custom picture framer must have a love for the arts and enjoy a creative and fast-paced environment. The job description is to have fun while working with people in framing their memories. In this position, you’ll design and construct frames to protect and display items like photographs, original watercolors, and paintings on canvas, posters, certificates, 3D objects like medals and sports memorabilia, and more. Your daily undertaking will primarily be talking to customers about their projects and making recommendations for the best colors, styles, and materials needed to protect and display their art.

A professional picture framer must possess excellent communication and math skills. Candidates for employment must be able to measure and read a measuring tape, be knowledgeable of art mediums, and have a general eye for color and design. Prior experience in picture framing and retail sales experience is a plus, but not required. We do train qualified, committed candidates who we feel have the potential to become a picture framing designer & craftsman.

Work Qualifications:

  • Possess a love for the visual arts
  • Artistic and creative
  • Must have strong customer-service skills
  • Interacts with others in an accepting and respectful manner;
  • Remains positive and respectful, even in difficult situations
  • Self-motivated
  • Basic computer skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Knowledge of carpentry tools to craft a frame to specific dimensions
  • Excellent fractional math skills
  • Read a measuring tape
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent attendance and work ethic
  • Dependable and able to handle responsibility
  • Physical requirements include regular bending, lifting, carrying, reaching and stretching
  • High School diploma or GED
  • Work hours include occasional nights, Saturdays and early mornings

 Responsibilities Include (but not limited to):

  • Retail sales of art, frames and picture framing services
  • Art installation
  • Archival quality framing
  • Stretching canvas paintings
  • Sports jersey & other fabric sew downs
  • Needlepoint and stitchery sew downs
  • Shadowbox framing
  • Operation of Wizard computerized mat cutter
  • Operation of computer POS register and custom framing software
  • Store maintenance and merchandising
  • Special event coordination
  • Working with local artists

 Benefits Include:

  • 401K w/company match
  • Employee Discounts

How to apply: Resumes or letters of interest may be sent to gallery@finerframes.com or delivered to Finer Frames, 132 E State Street, Eagle Idaho 83616. Attention Meg Glasgow