Production Manager

Production Manager

Pioneer, Ohio Farm

AquaBounty is a growing company with a bold vision—to pioneer a sustainable and nutritious future by transforming aquaculture. We raise Atlantic salmon that is nutritious, delicious, fresh, and affordable.

From our CEO to our farm technicians, AquaBounty’s team members share a passionate belief that smarter, science-based aquaculture can change the world.

AquaBounty raises Atlantic salmon in carefully monitored, indoor, land-based farms. AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon, have been precision-bred to reach market size in approximately half the time of conventional salmon, with improved efficiency. AquaBounty’s Atlantic salmon was genetically engineered one time, 30 years ago, to help the fish during their early, most vulnerable stages of growth. AquaBounty’s salmon are the first bioengineered animal protein approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada for commercial production and human consumption. Learn more about us at www.aquabounty.com.

We believe in:

• Excellence.  We do our best every day to learn new skills and solve real problems that lead to a better world, a rewarding workplace, and fulfilled customers.
• Passion.  We embrace an authentic belief in our mission and purpose through doing what we love and loving what we do with dedication and energy.
• Innovation.  We pioneer change by enabling courage, curiosity, and creative thinking. Seeking continuous improvement of methods, practices, and technologies.
• Collaboration.  Respecting our differences as we work together to achieve shared success, with humility, compassion, and open-mindedness.

The Role

The Production Manager is responsible for overseeing the production and operation of the new state of the art AquaBounty Ohio farm. The role will involve planning and coordination of all production units within the farm (except processing). The role will require planning as well as recommending and implementing changes if necessary across all production units to ensure consistency, continuous improvement, quality improvement and minimizing risk and fish loss.

The production manager will:

• Oversee all aspects of farm production performance ensuring we stay within standards, budget, and deadlines by setting productivity goals and monitoring success through established KPIs/metrics
• Ensure the production team has the necessary tools and equipment to deliver on the production plan goals
• Lead all production planning from receipt of the eggs to the hatchery, nursery and grow out areas of the farm
• Provide leadership and coaching in the philosophy of continuous improvement
• Coach, train and implement quality, safety, and 5S standards and processes, and recommend changes as opportunities arise
• Ensure production equipment functions properly and increases efficiencies

The role requires extensive leadership experience in land based/RAS fish farming production environment, ideally with Salmonids. You must be a strong people leader that thrives in a team-based, inclusive, continuous-improvement environment.

We offer a competitive health and welfare benefit package, paid time off and retirement benefits.

AquaBounty  is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  If interested in this position, please email your resume to CAREERS@AQUABOUNTY.COM.  We thank all interested applicants; however, only those candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted.

8/18/2022

2 Mill and Main Place | Suite 395 | Maynard, MA 01754 | aquabounty.com 

Information

• Location: United States

Industry experience

Education: Bachelor

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Taxonomy

• Aquaculture
• Aquaculture Systems
• Aquatic Ecologist
• Aquatic Environment
• Livestock Production
• Aquafarming
• Production Management
• Sustainable Food Production