Description
Eros Oyster is looking for a #2
One of the founders is retiring and the remaining partner is looking for an experienced oyster farmer to join him in running this successful operation.
Eros is an established (10 years) award-winning farm delivering direct-to-chefs within Maine and shipping direct to restaurants out-of-state via UPS overnight service. We also sell direct-to-consumers nationally through our website, and locally through our U-Pik operation.
We host over a thousand guests annually who take our land and water tours of the farm.
We are a 550 6-bag floating cage operation in the waters of Robinhood Cove in Georgetown. Our lease is situated only 100’ from our fleet of waterfront floats that house our tumbler, shaker table, upwellers, culling tables, our skiffs, and visiting yachts. Adjacent to the waterfront, we have an oyster processing building (cold room, ice machine, packing and shipping area, crew bathroom/shower and lockers).
Responsibilties
Our new hire will be dividing their time between both the husbandry and hospitality sides of the business. A workday may entail some combination of the following:
- Face time with oysters (flipping cages, tumbling, sorting, culling, bagging, delivering and shipping),
- Face time with customers (U-Pik visitors and tour guests -- which entails both entertaining and shucking),
- Face time managing our crew of seasonal help,
- Screen time (taking orders from chefs, printing invoices and shipping labels, making landings reports, maintaining inventory, working website/social media), and
- Machine time (outboard skiffs, pumps, electric tumbler and shaker table, tractor, Gator, delivery van, cold room, ice maker).
Applicant doesn’t have to be fluent in all skill areas to start, but as our #2, this person needs to join us with oyster farming experience and then develop widespread knowledge of the operation and the ability to move in and out of tasks as needed.
Initial pay will be commensurate with pre-hire experience and will increase with added responsibility.
Mike Gaffney
Eros Oyster
www.erosoyster.com
[email protected]
(207) 751-7956