Hatchery Foreman

Job Title: Hatchery Foreman Department: Hatchery Location: Kigembe, Gisagara, Rwanda Start date: As soon As possible No. of Positions: 3 About Kivu Choice: Kivu Choice is Rwanda’s largest protein producer and one of the fastest-growing aquaculture companies in Africa. Founded in 2022, Kivu Choice is the sister company to Victory Farms, East Africa’s leading aquaculture platform based in Kenya. The company operates a fully vertically integrated aquaculture model, encompassing hatchery operations, cage-based grow-out, processing, distribution, and sales. Kivu Choice is also one of the country’s largest employers with over 700 employees, and plans to grow to 1,200 employees within the next three years, reflecting its strong commitment to job creation and inclusive economic development. Over the next five years, Kivu Choice aims to scale into Africa’s largest and most sustainable protein producer, producing and distributing 30,000 tons of fish annually for the Rwandan market and for export across the region. About the role: The Hatchery Foreman is responsible for supervising day-to-day hatchery field operations including broodstock spawning support, egg collection, pond environmental management, and hapa/net logistics. The role ensures optimal environmental conditions, proper egg handling, availability of operational nets, and strict adherence to biosecurity and operational standards to maximize hatchery productivity, survival rates, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities

• Egg Collection Foreman.

1. Egg Collection: Ensuring collection of eggs from the brooders on time with less stress on both the eggs and the brooders Scheduling egg collection ponds on a weekly basis.
2. Egg transfer and Safety: Ensure eggs are moved to the incubation as fast as possible after collection. Maintain cleanliness during egg collection.
3. Training and adhering to Protocols: Training the egg collection team and ensuring protocols are adhered to during egg collection.
4. Brood stock management: Ensuring the numbers, densities of egg laying brooders are up to date. Key Responsibilities

• Pond Nursery Feeding:

1. Feed Preparation: Ensuring correct feed type, size, and quantity is prepared for both frys and fingerlings on a daily basis. Ensuring the feed is properly measured and ready before the feeding time. Preparation of reversal feed or any other medicated feed.
2. Feeding and monitoring fish: Ensure fish feeding is correctly done in all Nursery ponds at the scheduled times. Observe fish feeding responses and adjust feeding amounts as need be. Observe fish behavior during feeding to identify weak, sick or abnormal fish behavior for immediate action. Report unusual mortalities or poor feeding responses.
3. Record feed fed against calculated: Record the quantity of feed fed per hapa per pond and feeding times as per protocol. 4.  Training the team and adhering to feeding Protocol: Train the team on feeding, feed types, quality and fish response