Junior Aquarist

Full-time working hours are 42.5 hours per week and due to the nature of dealing with Livestock, flexibility in hours is essential and evening and weekend work is required on a rolling shift rota. The successful candidate should have an interest in aquatics or animal care, and be enthusiastic, hard-working with attention to detail, and eager to learn all aspects of marine livestock husbandry.

Full training is provided, this is a 100% hands on role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Livestock acclimation
• Hands on maintenance of the fish-house systems
• Feeding livestock and fish welfare
• Tank cleaning
• Picking and packing of livestock in a timely manner, for sales deliveries and calling customers
• Supporting calling customers

Key skills required include:

• Willingness to get involved, take ownership, and work on your own initiative is important.
• Hands on approach to tasks and situations
• Flexibility to adapt to sudden changes
• Work to deadlines and support critical pinch points, so that our livestock welfare standards are maintained.
• Positive ‘can do’ attitude and attention to detail
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Aquatic experience and product knowledge (advantageous)
• Flexibility and enthusiasm essential

Hours of Work: Fish-house shifts will include early starts and late finishes including weekend support on a rota basis. We can accommodate an immediate start.

Salary starts at national minimum wage with monthly shift attendance allowance payments for weekend and overtime hours and a quarterly bonus payment based on targets.

This position starts as a temporary 12 month contract and then made permanent based on performance.

Company pension

On-site parking