Ready to take the next step in your aquaculture career?
Join Tassal's Black Tiger Prawn Hatchery in Proserpine and play a leading role in one of Australia's most advanced prawn breeding and production programs.
As our Technical Coordinator, you'll provide hands-on leadership across hatchery operations, with a particular focus on broodstock maturation while also supporting larval rearing, algae production and domestication programs. Working closely with the Site Manager, you'll help drive animal performance, mentor team members and identify opportunities to improve hatchery productivity, quality and efficiency.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced aquaculture professional who enjoys combining technical expertise with leadership responsibilities and wants to make a genuine impact on a nationally significant breeding program.
Why Join Us?- Play a key role in Australia's leading Black Tiger Prawn breeding program
- Permanent full-time position with long-term career opportunities
- Lead technical outcomes across a complex and specialised hatchery operation
- Supportive, collaborative and highly experienced team environment
- Ongoing learning, development and career progression opportunities
- Birthday leave
- Access to Maxxia Salary Packaging, Novated Leasing and Rewards
- Health and wellbeing support for you and your family
- Live and work in the beautiful Whitsundays region
- Coordinating daily hatchery operations to achieve production targets
- Monitoring broodstock performance, animal health and water quality
- Providing technical leadership, coaching and support to hatchery staff
- Troubleshooting husbandry, operational and production challenges
- Monitoring inventory levels and planning critical consumables
- Analysing production data and identifying improvement opportunities
- Maintaining high standards of biosecurity, animal welfare and safety
- Collaborating across broodstock, larval rearing, algae and domestication teams
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance hatchery performance
- Extensive experience in aquaculture, hatchery operations or broodstock production
- Strong understanding of animal husbandry, water quality and biosecurity
- Experience leading or mentoring operational teams
- Proven ability to balance competing priorities and coordinate daily activities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience using production systems and Microsoft Office
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Qualifications in Aquaculture, Marine Biology, Animal Science or a related discipline highly regarded
- Full Australian working rights
You'll be someone who enjoys solving problems, developing people and driving continuous improvement. You're equally comfortable analysing production data, supporting team members on the floor and making decisions that improve animal health, production outcomes and operational performance.
If you're looking for a role where you can influence the future of sustainable food production while working in a unique and rewarding aquaculture environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Who are we?
Our people each contribute in different ways, embracing our business values and harnessing our can do – safely culture with purpose and intent. Our shared values are an essential part of our business culture, they define us. They underpin and guide our commitment, attitude, how we work and the quality of our products. We are passionate, we achieve together, we own it and we can do safely.
If you are passionate about people, sustainability, and are ready for an exciting opportunity, we encourage you to apply for this position with your Cover Letter and Resume. We encourage early applications as we review on a daily basis.
If you have any questions, please email Georgina at [email protected]
Skills Required
- Extensive experience in aquaculture, hatchery operations or broodstock production
- Strong understanding of animal husbandry, water quality and biosecurity
- Experience leading or mentoring operational teams
- Ability to balance competing priorities and coordinate daily activities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience using production systems and Microsoft Office
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Qualification in Aquaculture, Marine Biology, Animal Science or a related discipline
- Full Australian working rights
What We Do
Tassal Group is Australia’s largest vertically integrated seafood producer, farming and processing Atlantic salmon, prawns and barramundi. Drawing on more than 35 years of aquaculture experience, it supplies fresh, smoked and frozen seafood to Australian and international markets. Its stated purpose is “Sustainably Feeding Tomorrow,” and it emphasizes healthy, nutritious food through responsible aquaculture and sustainable use of water resources.
