Job Family: 27-0000 Arts, Design and Media
Occupational Group: 27-1020 Artists and Designers
OCCUPATION PROFILE
JOB FAMILY:
ARTS, DESIGN AND MEDIA
OCCUPATIONAL GROUP:
ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS
OCCUPATION:
SET AND EXHIBIT DESIGNERS
27-1027
BROADBAND LEVELS:
Level 1– Pay Band 003
Level 2– Pay Band 004
DESCRIPTION
This is work designing special exhibits in museums and historic sites and movie,
television, and theater sets. Incumbents may study scripts, confer with directors, confer
with historians, curators, and education specialists, and conduct research to determine
appropriate architectural styles.
EXAMPLES OF WORK
Integrates requirements including script, research, budget, and available locations to
develop design.
Prepares rough draft and scale working drawings of sets, including floor plans, scenery,
and properties to be constructed.
Presents drawings for approval and makes changes and corrections as directed.
Designs and builds scale models of set design or miniature sets used in filming
backgrounds or special effects.
Selects furniture, draperies, pictures, lamps, and rugs for decorative quality and
appearance and preservation of materials housed within exhibits.
Researches and consults experts to determine architectural and furnishing styles to
depict given periods or locations.
Confers with heads of production and direction to establish budget, schedules, and
discuss design ideas.
Estimates costs of design materials and construction, or rental of location or props.
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Directs and coordinates set construction, erection, or decoration activities to ensure
conformance to design, budget, and schedule requirements, and standards for
preservation of materials housed within exhibits.
Reads script to determine location, set, or decoration requirements.
Examines dressed set to ensure props and scenery do not interfere with movements of
cast or view of camera.
Assigns staff to complete design ideas and prepare sketches, illustrations, and detailed
drawings of sets, or graphics and animation.
Prepares preliminary drawings of proposed exhibit, including detailed construction,
layout, material specifications, or special effects diagrams.
Designs display to decorate streets, fairgrounds, building or other places for
celebrations, using paper, cloth, plastic, or other materials.
Designs, draws, paints, or sketches backgrounds and fixtures for use in windows or
interior displays.
Oversees preparation of artwork, construction of exhibit components, and placement of
collection to ensure intended interpretation of concepts and conformance to
specifications.
Confers with client or staff regarding theme, interpretative or informational purpose,
planned location, budget, materials, or promotion.
Submits plans for approval, and adapts plan to serve intended purpose or to conform to
budget or fabrication restrictions.
Arranges for acquisition of specimens or graphics, or building of exhibit structures by
outside contractors to complete exhibit.
Inspects installed exhibit for conformance to specifications and satisfactory operation of
special effects components.
EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS
Thinking Creatively
Originating, inventing, designing, or creating new
applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or
products, including artistic contributions.
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Getting Information Needed to
Do the Job
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining
information from all relevant sources.
Estimating Needed
Characteristics
Estimating the Characteristics of Materials,
Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes,
distances, and quantities, or determining time,
costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a
work activity.
Conducting or carrying out work procedures and
activities in accord with one's own ideas or
information provided through directions/instructions
for purposes of installing, modifying, preparing,
delivering, constructing, integrating, finishing, or
completing programs, systems, structures, or
products.
Providing documentation, detailed instructions,
drawings, or specifications to inform others about
how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to
be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified,
maintained, or used.
Developing plans to accomplish work, and
prioritizing and organizing one's own work.
Implementing Ideas, Programs,
Etc.
Drafting & Specifying Technical
Devices, etc.
Organizing, Planning, and
Prioritizing
Communicating With Other
Workers
Coordinating Work & Activities Of
Others
Making Decisions and Solving
Problems
Judging Qualities of Things,
Services, and/or People
Providing information to supervisors, fellow workers,
and subordinates. This information can be
exchanged face-to-face, in writing, or via
telephone/electronic transfer.
Coordinating members of a work group to
accomplish tasks.
Combining, evaluating, and reasoning with
information and data to make decisions and solve
problems. These processes involve making
decisions about the relative importance of
information and choosing the best solution.
Making judgments about or assessing the value,
importance, or quality of things or people.
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EXAMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Coordination
Adjusting actions in relation to others'
actions
Implementation Planning
Developing approaches for implementing
an idea
Operations Analysis
Analyzing needs and product requirements
to create a design
Idea Generation
Generating a number of different
approaches to problems
Idea Evaluation
Evaluating the likely success of an idea in
relation to the demands of the situation
Time Management
Managing one's own time and the time of
others
Management of Material Resources
Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate
use of equipment, facilities, and materials
needed to do certain work
Management of Financial Resources
Determining how money will be spent to
get the work done, and accounting for
these expenditures
Product Inspection
Inspecting and evaluating the quality of
products
Critical Thinking
Using logic and analysis to identify the
strengths and weaknesses of different
approaches
Active Listening
Listening to what other people are saying
and asking questions as appropriate
Information Gathering
Knowing how to find information and
identifying essential information
Monitoring
Assessing how well one is doing when
learning or doing something
Visioning
Developing an image of how a system
should work under ideal conditions
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Identification of Key Causes
Identifying the things that must be
changed to achieve a goal
Synthesis/Reorganization
Reorganizing information to get a better
approach to problems or tasks
Management of Personnel Resources
Motivating, developing, and directing
people as they work, identifying the best
people for the job
Design
Knowledge of design techniques,
principles, tools and instruments involved
in the production and use of precision
technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and
models
Fine Arts
Knowledge of theory and techniques
required to produce, compose, and
perform works of music, dance, visual arts,
drama, and sculpture
Building and Construction
Knowledge of materials, methods, and the
appropriate tools to construct objects,
structures, and buildings
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
EFFECTIVE:
07/01/2002
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