About the role

You'll help keep our fish healthy and our farm running smoothly. This is a hands-on, physically demanding role involving wet work, repetitive tasks and regular cleaning. Keeping the farm clean and completing routine jobs properly are essential parts of the position.

Key responsibilities

- Feeding fish and observing their behaviour and health

- Testing and recording water quality

- Hand grading fish by size

- Hand harvesting and handling fish carefully

- Basic filter maintenance and equipment checks

- Cleaning tanks, equipment and work areas

- Entering accurate records in Microsoft Excel

- Reporting problems, changes and unfinished work promptly

About you

- Reliability: you turn up on time, ready to work

- Initiative: once trained, you recognise what needs doing and get on with it

- Excellent communication: you ask when unsure, give explicit updates and flag problems early

- Physical capability: you can safely manage the lifting, standing and manual handling involved





- Computer skills: you're comfortable using Microsoft Excel for data entry and basic spreadsheets

- Attention to detail: you follow procedures and keep accurate records

- Accountability: you take responsibility for your work and tell us when something hasn't gone to plan

- Willingness to learn: you listen, apply feedback and build your skills

About us

The IKA Foundry grows Queensland giant groper in a state-of-the-art indoor recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), producing 150 tonnes per year.

Benefits

- Full training in fish husbandry and daily RAS operations

- Work inside an advanced indoor aquaculture facility

- A small team where your contribution makes a visible difference

- The opportunity to develop practical skills across fish production, water quality and equipment maintenance

📌 Aquaculture Position (Yamba)
🏢 The IKA FOUDNRY
📍 Yamba