Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp
Assistant Hatchery Manager - Gulkana
Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp, Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99507
Description
Advance your career in fisheries and salmon resource sustainability with Pacific sockeye salmon working at the Gulkana Hatchery.The Gulkana Hatchery is located near Paxson, AK, about 3 hour drive from Fairbanks, AK. In-season housing is provided at the hatchery site from early March to mid-October.
BENEFITSHealth, Vision, and Dental Insurance (no monthly cost)Life Insurance (no monthly cost)100% employee vested 403(b) Retirement Plan, 6% employer match after 1 yr of service5+ Weeks Annual LeaveWork Wear AllowanceRelocation AssistanceIn-Season Furnished Housing and basic utilities (no monthly cost)Position Title:
ASSISTANTHATCHERY MANAGERCategory:
Full time, regular, full benefitsPayroll Classification:
Annual Wage, ExemptLocation:
Hatchery or Remote Field StationCustomary Work Hours:
8:00 - 5:00, Monday - FridaySupervisor's Title:
Hatchery Manager
Basic Function:
Assistant Hatchery Manager functions as part of the hatchery operations team in the cultivating and rearing of fish. Under general direction, serves as full assistant to the Hatchery Manager in the operation of a fish hatchery requiring management level decisions making capability on a 24-hour basis.
Primary Responsibilities:
The Assistant Hatchery Manager has a broad range of responsibilities for fish culture, fish harvest, and hatchery maintenance. The assistant is also the front-line supervisor of the hatchery fish technician staff. Administrative responsibilities include assisting the manager in planning, budgeting, documenting, assessing, and improving hatchery operations.
Description of duties and tasks:
Fish Propagation: Enumerating, caring, killing, spawning, and disposing of carcasses; preparing, cleaning, and maintaining incubators; monitoring and maintaining water quality; loading, enumerating, picking, and caring for egg/alevin; rearing, enumerating, and setting up outmigration of fry; perform other general duties associated with fish culture operationsFish Harvest: Preparing, repairing, and maintaining harvest equipment; loading, transporting, caring for, and unloading harvest pens; collecting and recording fish harvest management dataPrepares feeding and rearing schedules based on calculated growth rates; prepares feed; supervises and/or performs necessary feeding activitiesSupervises and participates in egg-taking, egg care, otolith marking, and outmigration operations that meet prescribed performance standardsExamines fish for diseases or nutritional disorders and coordinates results with fish pathologistsMaintains and measures water supplies to provide desired quality, quantity, and temperature to incubation and rearing units; takes water samples; and measures dissolved gas content. May clean water and bacterial filters, ponds, troughs, tanks, incubators, screens, and work areasMaintains and evaluates records of fish mortality, growth, and adult sexual maturity; keeps records on the number of fish on hand, shipped, or planted; prepares work schedules and routine reports of hatchery activitiesAssumes direct supervision of the facility for specific periods of timeAnalyzes data, facts, and information, and draws logical conclusions. Performs data entry or analysis using computers and softwareAssists and advises higher-level operations staff in various biological studies such as rearing, ecology observations, lake surveys, and marked fish recoveryAssists visitors by providing information about hatchery operationsDirects and supervises work schedules and activities of lower-level technicians and culturists, instructing personnel in the performance of dutiesDirects hand feeding, otolith marking, production schedules, and disease identification activities according to established standardsOperates and adjusts hatchery apparatus such as automatic fish feeders, pressurized water filters, ultraviolet and ozone water depuration units, electronic measuring devices, and electronic egg and fish countersAssists the manager in the preparation of the annual operation plans and budgetsAssists the manager in the area of supply procurement and quarterly ordering as it applies to project budgetsRecommends procedures, techniques, and new equipment to improve work efficiencies or adaptation to new techniquesEffectively interacts with the public and directs inquiries to appropriate departments or personsPerforms related duties as assigned
Essential Functions:
Work performed at any hatchery or remote location as needed. Must be able to move about freely; work outdoors in all weather conditions; ability to lift and carry 50 pounds; ability to climb stairs and ladders; ability to climb aboard and about vessels and small aircraft; work around water - on docks and floats; use telephones and computers unimpaired. Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language. Must be able to hear and see to receive verbal and written instructions
Positions Supervised:
Lower-level fish technician on a day-to-day basis
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of fish hatchery operations and procedures; principles and practices of aquaculture including new technology, methodology and analysis; fish life in Alaska including the kinds, distribution and importance of various species, their habitats and requirements; procedures and practices followed in the identification of fish diseases, dietary disorders, and parasitic infections of eggs, fry, fingerlings, smolt, and other problem associated with fish culture; methods of preparing fisheries development and improvement projects; principles of planning, organizing and conducting logistics for surveys and research.
Ability to analyze data, facts and information and draw logical conclusions; conduct fry/smolt research; use field and lab equipment, tagging and sampling gear, computer and computer software; perform technical hatchery studies and prepare reports and articles; maintain records, prepare routine and special reports, conduct correspondence related to the work; analyze lower level employees, communicate with others both verbally and in writing; maintain favorable public relations; and work an extended and irregular work schedule
Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college with a major in fisheries science or a closely related field
Substitutions: Four years of progressively responsible work experience in aquaculture or mariculture in combination with post-secondary education in fisheries science coursework or closely related fields
One year experience as a fish culturistCurrent, valid driver's license
Advance your career in fisheries and salmon resource sustainability with Pacific sockeye salmon working at the Gulkana Hatchery.The Gulkana Hatchery is located near Paxson, AK, about 3 hour drive from Fairbanks, AK. In-season housing is provided at the hatchery site from early March to mid-October.
BENEFITSHealth, Vision, and Dental Insurance (no monthly cost)Life Insurance (no monthly cost)100% employee vested 403(b) Retirement Plan, 6% employer match after 1 yr of service5+ Weeks Annual LeaveWork Wear AllowanceRelocation AssistanceIn-Season Furnished Housing and basic utilities (no monthly cost)Position Title:
ASSISTANTHATCHERY MANAGERCategory:
Full time, regular, full benefitsPayroll Classification:
Annual Wage, ExemptLocation:
Hatchery or Remote Field StationCustomary Work Hours:
8:00 - 5:00, Monday - FridaySupervisor's Title:
Hatchery Manager
Basic Function:
Assistant Hatchery Manager functions as part of the hatchery operations team in the cultivating and rearing of fish. Under general direction, serves as full assistant to the Hatchery Manager in the operation of a fish hatchery requiring management level decisions making capability on a 24-hour basis.
Primary Responsibilities:
The Assistant Hatchery Manager has a broad range of responsibilities for fish culture, fish harvest, and hatchery maintenance. The assistant is also the front-line supervisor of the hatchery fish technician staff. Administrative responsibilities include assisting the manager in planning, budgeting, documenting, assessing, and improving hatchery operations.
Description of duties and tasks:
Fish Propagation: Enumerating, caring, killing, spawning, and disposing of carcasses; preparing, cleaning, and maintaining incubators; monitoring and maintaining water quality; loading, enumerating, picking, and caring for egg/alevin; rearing, enumerating, and setting up outmigration of fry; perform other general duties associated with fish culture operationsFish Harvest: Preparing, repairing, and maintaining harvest equipment; loading, transporting, caring for, and unloading harvest pens; collecting and recording fish harvest management dataPrepares feeding and rearing schedules based on calculated growth rates; prepares feed; supervises and/or performs necessary feeding activitiesSupervises and participates in egg-taking, egg care, otolith marking, and outmigration operations that meet prescribed performance standardsExamines fish for diseases or nutritional disorders and coordinates results with fish pathologistsMaintains and measures water supplies to provide desired quality, quantity, and temperature to incubation and rearing units; takes water samples; and measures dissolved gas content. May clean water and bacterial filters, ponds, troughs, tanks, incubators, screens, and work areasMaintains and evaluates records of fish mortality, growth, and adult sexual maturity; keeps records on the number of fish on hand, shipped, or planted; prepares work schedules and routine reports of hatchery activitiesAssumes direct supervision of the facility for specific periods of timeAnalyzes data, facts, and information, and draws logical conclusions. Performs data entry or analysis using computers and softwareAssists and advises higher-level operations staff in various biological studies such as rearing, ecology observations, lake surveys, and marked fish recoveryAssists visitors by providing information about hatchery operationsDirects and supervises work schedules and activities of lower-level technicians and culturists, instructing personnel in the performance of dutiesDirects hand feeding, otolith marking, production schedules, and disease identification activities according to established standardsOperates and adjusts hatchery apparatus such as automatic fish feeders, pressurized water filters, ultraviolet and ozone water depuration units, electronic measuring devices, and electronic egg and fish countersAssists the manager in the preparation of the annual operation plans and budgetsAssists the manager in the area of supply procurement and quarterly ordering as it applies to project budgetsRecommends procedures, techniques, and new equipment to improve work efficiencies or adaptation to new techniquesEffectively interacts with the public and directs inquiries to appropriate departments or personsPerforms related duties as assigned
Essential Functions:
Work performed at any hatchery or remote location as needed. Must be able to move about freely; work outdoors in all weather conditions; ability to lift and carry 50 pounds; ability to climb stairs and ladders; ability to climb aboard and about vessels and small aircraft; work around water - on docks and floats; use telephones and computers unimpaired. Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language. Must be able to hear and see to receive verbal and written instructions
Positions Supervised:
Lower-level fish technician on a day-to-day basis
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of fish hatchery operations and procedures; principles and practices of aquaculture including new technology, methodology and analysis; fish life in Alaska including the kinds, distribution and importance of various species, their habitats and requirements; procedures and practices followed in the identification of fish diseases, dietary disorders, and parasitic infections of eggs, fry, fingerlings, smolt, and other problem associated with fish culture; methods of preparing fisheries development and improvement projects; principles of planning, organizing and conducting logistics for surveys and research.
Ability to analyze data, facts and information and draw logical conclusions; conduct fry/smolt research; use field and lab equipment, tagging and sampling gear, computer and computer software; perform technical hatchery studies and prepare reports and articles; maintain records, prepare routine and special reports, conduct correspondence related to the work; analyze lower level employees, communicate with others both verbally and in writing; maintain favorable public relations; and work an extended and irregular work schedule
Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college with a major in fisheries science or a closely related field
Substitutions: Four years of progressively responsible work experience in aquaculture or mariculture in combination with post-secondary education in fisheries science coursework or closely related fields
One year experience as a fish culturistCurrent, valid driver's license