Location: Roo Bay Farm, Homabay

Roles & Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate for the Fish Harvesting Supervisor role will ensure optimal timing, efficient resource utilization, updating and enforcing SOPs and compliance with handling protocols. This role requires making informed decisions regarding targets and KPIs, participating in harvest planning meetings, and collaborating with cross-functional departments to remain within the harvest plan.

Fish Harvesting

• Oversee day-to-day harvesting operations ensuring optimal timing and efficient utilization of resources.
• Ensure compliance with protocol for handling harvested fish and other resources such as sein nets, protective nets, among others.
• Optimizing processes including deployment of tools to simplify the harvesting process.
• Make informed decisions regarding targets and KPIs.
• Participate in harvest planning meetings to understand priority for the week.
• Ensure set targets are met and escalate challenges from time to time for immediate action.
• Follow up on priority closure of cages to facilitate re-stocking
• Play a pro-active role in ensuring that sufficient resources are allocated for successful fish harvest and evacuation (sinkers removal, collection boats etc)
• Update and enforce all relevant SOPs covering partial harvest, full harvest and morts collection.
• Work with cross-functional departments to remain within harvest plan.
• Ensure critical timelines are adhered to. Observe start time and cut-off times

Team management and Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and manage the teams.
• Set clear departmental goals and performance targets in line with the company’s overall objectives.
• Develop and implement strategies to optimize productivity, streamline processes, and improve operational efficiency.
• Allocate resources effectively to meet operational demands while adhering to budgetary constraints.
• Ensure refresher training is done to help boost team effectiveness.
• Implement performance metrics and tracking systems to monitor the department’s KPIs.

Health, Safety & Quality Management

• Ensure safety protocols are followed from time to time and that every member is aware of critical control points (CCPs)
• Enforce all related SOPs and protocols
• Ensure all members on harvest team are adequately trained on safe harvesting operation and quality fish delivery.
• Follow up on quality monitoring aspects of fish handling; seining, bagging, scooping and icing while delivering to processing department.
• Ensure all harvest operatives are of good health status and can properly cope with lake environment.
• Follow up with technical team to have ready and in working conditions; scoop net, sein net, crane and well services gen set.
• Strictly comply with all governing regulation, both internally and externally.

Skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Marine Biology, Fisheries Management, Aquaculture, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in fish harvesting or a similar role.
• Proficiency in optimizing harvesting processes, maintaining and enforcing SOPs for various harvesting operations.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage teams to optimize productivity and operational efficiency.
• Strong understanding of safety protocols and critical control points (CCPs) with the ability to enforce SOPs, ensure team training on safe harvesting operations, and maintain high standards of fish handling quality.
• Capable of effective resource allocation to meet operational demands while adhering to budgetary constraints.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional departments and ensure timely resolution of challenges.
• Knowledge of governing regulations, both internal and external, with a strict adherence to compliance requirements

Benefit:

• Visibility into the world’s fastest growing aquaculture company.
• Ideal for a candidate looking to dive into a mission-oriented Organization.
• The team is committed to the candidate’s success and will provide coaching, mentorship, and unique exposure to people and experiences that come from the most successful leaders in the entrepreneurial community and the social sector.

About Victory Farms

Victory Farms (VF) was established on Lake Victoria in 2016 with both on-shore and off-shore facilities. The head office is in Nairobi, and its Farm site is in Homa Bay County, with distribution across Kenya. VF has since become one of the fastest growing companies in aquaculture globally – in its first eight months of operation, the Company became the largest aquaculture producer in Kenya. Victory Farms aims to become the leading tilapia farm in Africa over the next 5 years while maintaining the highest environmental and social standards; as the most sustainable tilapia farm in the world, adhering to global standards and best practices, and producing affordable, sustainable protein to feed millions of people across Africa. Today, it is the largest commercial aquaculture player in East Africa and operates one of largest hatcheries on the continent.

The Company is continuing to rapidly expand its vertically integrated model: production, processing, and sales & distribution, to keep pace with the rapid growth in demand for protein. To support this, Victory Farms employs world class technologies, people, and processes to build its model for sustainable protein production on the continent. VF strives for the highest standards in performance, execution, culture, and integrity.

VF’s growth trajectory provides enormous opportunity for excited professionals to uplift their careers and make an impact within a diverse operation. We recognize the utmost importance which contributions by individuals and teams have to the success of Victory Farms. We work to create a fantastic environment for our employees. An environment where employees have an opportunity to develop professionally and personally.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and cover letter expressing your interest and qualifications to recruit@victoryfarmskenya.com by 25^th January, 2025. Indicate the Job Title as the email subject – Harvesting Supervisor