Job Purpose
Oversees all hardware operations to ensure maximum productivity and output with the state of all assets well looked after and maintained.
Key Responsibilities & Critical Success Measures
- Plans and directs production activities and priorities of the hardware teams.
- Assists with planning daily, weekly and further in advance for smooth running of lake operations.
- Ensure a weekly execution plan is shared every Friday of the week (for the following week).
- Ensure mooring lines are inspected and fixed monthly.
- Ensure all nets are inspected twice a month by the divers.
- Ensure cage fixing on the lake is planned and fixed on schedule every week.
- Ensure cages and centre buoy are inspected and fixed after harvest.
- Ensure all boats are operated with care and maintenance is scheduled on time.
- Conduct quarterly inventories for all the hardware equipment. Ensure equipment damage is reported immediately and relevant action taken.
- Ensure accountability is built into the team, and underperformance is not tolerated.
- Ensure all cages are deployed with all net types neat and tidy with standardize knots.
- Ensure all net changes are done on time with a right type of single net.
- Ensure good procedure is followed on net exchange to prevent damage to net, cage and moorings.
- Leads all operations, ensuring good procedures and productivity for divers, net mending, net deployment, cage maintenance & fabrications, and coxswains.
- Instil a culture where pride is taken in the work, and care of fish and equipment is priority.
- Ensures teams’ safety; promotes use and ensures provision of the right PPE, diving gear and ensures mandatory compliance to health and safety guidelines.
- Assists in hiring and training of new team members.
- Performs any other duties as assigned by the Line manager.
- Ensuring maximum team productivity and efficiency through inspection and fixing.
- Ensures SOPs are updated, adhered to and enforced, driving strong compliance.
- Ensures the technical safety aspects of diving are checked and adhered to by the team at all times.
Qualifications
- Grade Twelve (12) Certificate
- Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, or related technical field.
- Additional certifications in Maintenance Planning, and Project Management are an advantage.
- 2 years + of Progressive supervisory Experience in a similar field
- Experience working on the Lake preferred
- Sufficient hands-on experience in fish cage farming preferred
Skills
- Communication
- Interpersonal relations
- Excellent leadership
- Administration Skills
- Strong Motivational Skills
- Effectual Team Building
- Decision Making
- Administrative skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to effectively manage time & resolve crisis
- Ability to efficiently coordinate internal and external stakeholders
