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Aquarium of Niagara

This is a great place to work in a lot of aspects but the turnover of staff is overwhelming. Staff from as high up as Director level all the way down to entry level are treated very poorly and replaced on a whim. 

Stability and longevity do not exist here as they have just finished terminating any staff who had been here for any extended period of time (10+ over 20yrs of time put in). 

Your success here is determined by popularity rather than your productivity or skill. 

All important decisions are made by the board of trustees who have no experience in any way in this type of setting.

The aquarium is a cutthroat workplace where anyone putting in any effort will immediately get thrown under the bus as soon as something goes wrong. The only HR staff is actually the financial controller with no actual HR experience. There is no sense of respect or appreciation from the directors toward staff. This would be an amazing place to work as far as fellow staff and the atmosphere but the management team seems intent on driving it into the ground.

As an AZA accredited facility equal emphasis on conservation, education, welfare and the other primary goals of the AZA are to be given. However the AoN continuously devalues it’s education and conservation departments as well as the staff in those departments. Placing more value on the staff in the flashier roles of marine mammal trainers and penguin keepers. 

I was only an intern here while attending college. Interns are basically just there to do the jobs the paid staff does not want to do. Spending all day filling salt tanks on a ladder, cleaning dirty feeding pans, cleaning tanks, bleaching everything, scraping fish scales off of metal pans for hours. Once in a while you get to interact with animals, usually at the end of your internship. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Coworkers great place to work never had so much fun at work 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not a stressful place at all very fast paced no stress

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Come see for yourself hiring now 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Face paced fun and exciting awesome job

I interned here for about 4 months. The job itself was very interesting and enjoyable, but as an intern, there was no pay. A huge downside to the job was the other employees. Out of  about the 20 people employed there, there were only about two or three that were tolerable. I think there needs to be some fresh blood hired to fix the hostile work environment.

The team here is really amazing. It’s a non profit so Pat isn’t that great but they do everything they can for their animals and their people. The best part of the job for me was the people and the animals.

I left due to a lot of issues they were having. Pay rate was junk. Hours kept getting cut. Supervisor was a weirdo and i was not comfortable. They left me on to close night shifts by myself in a community that is nothing but crime. Very scary.

I enjoyed working at Aquarium of Niagara. I was a seasonal associate during a summer semester at college. I learned a lot on the job and grew attached to the animals. All of the staff care a lot about the animals, and want whats best for them. 

I loved working there. It was a fun fast paced environment which made the day go by fast. I would love to work there again. The employees are so nice.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Facilities technician 4 salaries reported	$19.44 per hour
Educator 3 salaries reported	$17.17 per hour
Guest service agent 1 salary reported	$16.00 per hour
Retail team leader 2 salaries reported	$20.25 per hour
Director of facilities 2 salaries reported	$80,000 per year

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