AddressAbout Seafarms
Seafarms is Australia's largest prawn farming company with 160 hectares of ponds and two hatcheries over four locations across northern Australia. Our facilities are in Innisfail, Cardwell and Ingham in north Queensland and Exmouth in Western Australia. We are also the proponent of Project Sea Dragon, a global scale prawn aquaculture project to be developed across northern Australia culminating in the operation of 10,000 hectares of prawn production ponds.
The Job
We currently we have some short term casual positions available to join our Processing & Production team at Cardwell and our Hatchery team in Flying Fish Point near Innisfail. The roles would be 5 days per week, including Saturdays at Cardwell for approximately 3 weeks or 3-4 days per week at Flying Fish Point for approximately 4 weeks starting in June.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Following Workplace Health & Safety & HACCP procedures
- Sort, grade, trim, wash and weighing of prawns
- Loading, unloading, moving, packing of inventory including frozen & fresh prawns & feed.
- Processing raw prawn material
- Preparing packing material including cartons & boxes
- Printing Labels
- Stacking pallets
- Data collection & recording data
- Waste & rubbish removal
- Cleaning & maintenance of equipment
Skills Required
- High Standards of hygiene (jewellery & facial piercings will need to be removed before the start of each shift)
- The ability to stand for long periods of time & maintain concentration on a production line
- Ability to work in a team environment with minimal supervision
- Excellent time management skills with thorough attention to detail
- High level of written and verbal communication skills (English)
- Able to commit to flexible work hours, sometimes on short notice
- Own transport to/from site
- Full training provided
- Positive attitude, good communication skills and enjoys working within a team.
- Strongly committed to Occupational Health and Safety and Biosecurity principles and practices.
**ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHTS TO WORK IN AUSTRALIA**
If you think that you have what it takes to excel in this environment, we would love to hear from you!
