Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting shellfish: Confers with manager to determine time and place of seed planting, cultivating, feeding, and harvesting shellfish.

• 2) Plans work schedules according to tidal levels, and availability of personnel and equipment.

• 3) Inspects beds and ponds to ascertain the quality of seed distribution, adequacy of cultivation, and completeness of harvesting, and directs workers to correct deviations and irregularities.

• 4) Oversees maintenance of planting, cultivating, and harvesting equipment, tidal pens, and shellfish beds.

• 5) Trains worker to drive or operate equipment, and in methods and techniques of shellfish farming.

• 6) Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR Master Title.

• 7) May assign workers to guard pens and beds against encroachment.

• 8) May record planting and harvesting data, and keep workers' time records.

• 9) May supervise workers engaged in farming a specific type of shellfish and be designated Supervisor, Clam-Bed; Supervisor, Oyster Farm; Supervisor, Shrimp Pond.