Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
No experience (will train)
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- In/on water
- Wet/damp
- Odours
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Mussel sites (land/barge)
- Commercial aquatic farm
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Feed aquaculture stock
- Maintain aquaculture equipment
- Operate aquaculture equipment
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Cull, mark or tag aquaculture stocks
- Rake and gather marine plants
- Spread and dry marine plants
- Transport marine plants to processing plants
- Dig shellfish from shellfish beds
- Clean, sort and pack shellfish
- Assist aquaculture technicians in the operation of fish hatcheries or other aquatic farms
- Grade and weigh aquaculture stocks
Experience and specialization
Type of aquaculture operations
Type of fishing
- Mussel socking and harvesting
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
Weight handling
Personal suitability
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Team player
Employment groups
This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups:
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Does not require Canadian work experience
Support for youths
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
