Aquaculture Supervisor

Australian Ocean Biotechnology has been in the Aquaculture Industry since 1999 and we are now looking the right candidate with Aquaculture experience who enjoys leading and supervising small teams to work productively. 

If the below describes you, we would love to hear from you!

• You have a High level of personal Ownership, Accountability and you enjoy leading a small team. 
• Calm in nature, even in challenging situations to work to resolutions.
• Attention to detail and excellent observational skills.
• Experience of 2+ year Aquaculture experience ideally but not essentially in Abalone.  
• You feel confident in your ability to lead/supervise a small team of around 6 people to improve productivity and output.
• You pride yourself on your personal productivity and believe you can lead a small team to cohesively do the same.
• The position is almost entirely hands on.

The above experience and attributes are essential to the role.

The Aquaculture Growout Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring harvesting, cleaning, feeding and stock movement all happens in a highly productive safe and timely manner to the companies standards.

This as an exciting opportunity for an individual who is seeking to advance their career.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving small teams of staff to work productively and effectively.  
• A Continuous Improvement mindset and culture will be apart of the role.
• Planning and assisting with stock movement, grading and sorting abalone
• Upholding and maintaining high standards for General Husbandry including Feeding, cleaning stock movement.
• Harvest, pack and dispatch and deliver stock
• Assist Farm Manager in creating and implementing stock movement and harvest schedules, rostering, to meet or improve budgets and deadlines.
• Up hold the team to high standards and drive team improvement of standards.
• Assist with maintenance tasks as required
• Planning deliveries and ensuring documentation is accurate and up to date

Remuneration is flexible for the right candidate, pay rate equivalent of $35-$40 per hour, possibility for team and production productivity improvement bonuses.

AOB also has System Research and Development projects underway for Abalone Farming as well as process development projects underway, that are aimed at innovating the Abalone Industry.

AOB also have 2 new species projects that are underway and you can be apart of the ground breaking work on these species.

All applications or expressions of interest can be treated confidentially should you wish. Please email applications to or call the Aquaculture Manager, Paul on 0435592***.  Thank You.