What are the responsibilities and job description for the Purser/Quality Control Manager 2025 position at O'Hara Corporation?
Excellence. Innovation. Integrity. Passion.
Fishing vessel experience and basic computer and Microsoft Excel skills required.
Essential Duties
Purser’s must be able to:
- Sample a minimum of 8 fresh fish pans per day following sampling procedure and log data using Microsoft Excel
- Report product QC data and summary daily via email to on board vessel officers and shore-based offices
- Analyze and report the QC data findings real time with on board officers so corrective actions, preventative measures, or training solutions can be created and implemented.
- Train a crew member on the QC procedures to cover sampling during pursers off shift
- Train new crew members on factory work as directed by the foreman.
- Calibrate scales
- Work in the factory as needed and occasional sampling/QC related work on trawl deck
- HAACP paperwork (reviewed by HACCP certified person)
- In town errands during offload such as spare part runs, crew airport runs, crew clinic runs, other errands
- Facilitate the trip-by-trip base freezer hold stowage plan and the offload instruction from the marketing office to the foreman
- Update the vessel ETAs to the shoreside personnel.
- Accurately Document
- Electronic Logbook
- NMFS Reporting
- Daily Production
- End of Voyage/ contract extension paperwork at offloads
- Offload paperwork
- Help Dockside offloads (tally when needed)
- Ship store paperwork
- Other duties and projects as required
Work Schedule:
- The purser will report to the Captain, Mate, Factory Manager/Foreman, and Assistant Foreman.
- Typical work hours are 16.5 hours per day, 7 days per week.
- Work hours may be extended during offload or backload which may result in uneven shifts and sleep patterns.
Work Environment:
- While performing the duties of this job, employees and the vessel will be operating in extremely remote and austere locations; often days away from land or dock facilities.
- While performing the duties of this job, employees are expected to wear protective clothing and equipment such as rain gear (pants and sleeves), gloves, rubber boots, noise suppression devices, and use as required: hardhat, safety goggles, fire extinguisher, respirator, life preserver and survival suit.
- Employees will be exposed to various species of fish; wet, humid and freezing conditions; fish processing equipment such as headers, movable and stationary conveyor systems, knives, hoists, pressure washers, cleaning chemicals, shovels, buckets, baskets and aluminum pans.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Employees work onboard a vessel in the ocean which by nature produces varying degrees of motion in the factory.
