OPERATIONS MANAGER

Scottish Sea Farms offer a unique opportunity for an exceptional candidate to facilitate excellence of infrastructure and operations across our Scotland and Orkney marine production regions. As a senior manager, you will have at least 7 years practical aquaculture experience with first-class knowledge of all relevant hardware; including a comprehensive understanding of moorings, net, cage and vessel specifications, centralised feeding systems, MCA and HSE requirements.

Essential aspects of this role include:
· Proactively assisting managers to make informed value for money decisions.
· Ensuring a uniformly excellent standard of stock containment and equipment maintenance.
· Controlling purchasing on a daily basis.
· Specifying tenders and monitoring quality of work.
· Factoring health and safety into decision-making.
· Evaluation of supplier performance.
· Ensuring staff competence through the availability of training.
· Follow-up of equipment-related incidents.
· Task and risk assessment.
· Innovation in hardware and technique.

You will enjoy hands-on practical work, set demanding targets, be experienced in risk assessment, health and safety management and be committed to developing others. You should have a questioning mind and relish analytical detail. The role has focus on efficient targeted control of production spending and you must combine excellent communications skills with tenacious negotiation ability.

PRODUCTION BIOLOGIST

Scottish Sea Farms wish to recruit a skilled and motivated biologist to promote optimal production efficiency across our Scotland and Orkney marine farming regions. You will have at least 4 years practical aquaculture or feed R&D experience with a first-class knowledge of relevant biological and environmental parameters; including comprehensive understanding of ECR optimisation, flesh quality relationships, health and nutrition interactions, and data presentation.

Essential aspects of this role include:
· Ensuring the integrity of biological production data
· Near term harvest planning
· Performance benchmarking
· Predictive flesh quality assessment
· Feed supplier interactions
· Improvement focused
· Ability to train and motivate
· Collation of sea lice data
· Data management

You must be committed to continuous improvement of fish welfare with keen risk/threat awareness. The ability to interrogate primary data and translate into meaningful and practical action is essential.

In both roles, you will essentially measure your own effectiveness from the success you generate in others. In return we will offer you the freedom to challenge and question in a creative, open-minded and supportive working environment. Salary and package will be dependant upon experience. SSF offer pension support and operate an industry leading occupational health scheme. Relocation expenses may also be considered.

For an Informal discussion, please contact John Rea on (00) 44 1631 574000. Job descriptions can be obtained by calling Claire Scott on (00) 44 1786 445521.

To apply, please email claire.scott@scottishseafarms.com attaching a CV and cover letter outlining your present roles, achievements to date and why you represent the perfect candidate.

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