aquaculture manager

Government of Canada - Western; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental organization in Vancouver seeks an individual to manage aquaculture operations, including staff supervision and infrastructure design. Responsibilities encompass applying medicinal treatments, monitoring aquatic environments, and maintaining quality standards. Candidates must possess a secondary school certificate and have the physical capability for demanding tasks. Join us in a rewarding position where your skills will be crucial to successful farm management without any option for remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing aquaculture or fish hatchery operations is an asset.
• Physical capability to handle demanding tasks and heavy loads required.

Responsibilities

• Apply medicinal substances to control and prevent diseases.
• Supervise and train staff in aquaculture practices.
• Design and construct infrastructure for sea farms.
• Collect and record data to monitor farm operations.
• Establish inventory and quality control methods.

Skills

Attention to detail

Excellent oral communication

Team player

Reliability

Flexibility

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Job description

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience

Experience an asset

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Odours
• Outdoors
• Wet/damp

Responsibilities Tasks

• Apply medicinal substances to control and prevent diseases
• Incorporate biosecurity measures into daily operation
• Supervise staff
• Train staff
• Design and construct pens, floating stations and collector strings or fences for sea farms
• Scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations
• Co-ordinate selection and maintenance of brood stock
• Collect and record data
• Determine food requirements and structure feeding regimes
• Establish inventory and quality control methods
• Establish marketing programs
• Identify diseases or parasites
• Maintain financial records
• Manage and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers and supervise technicians and technologists
• Manage fish hatchery, fish farm or other aquatic farm
• Monitor environment and maintain optimum conditions
• Operate and maintain harvesting and cultivating equipment
• Oversee preparation of site for species cultivation

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Public transportation is not available

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Attention to detail
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Fast-paced environment
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding

Personal suitability

• Accurate
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player